Interconnect November 2015
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Interconnect November 2015 In this Issue Port Automation POAL’s Very Independent Point of Difference Our Great New Tools Interconnect November 2015 CONTENTS 2 POAL Focus POAL Focus 4 Operations Review space to hear about more links in Heart Transplant Automation our supply chain. It’s an exciting State of New Berth Built for Three development that enables us, in conjunction with our hub operators the Art in 6 Supply Chain and our 4PL logistics provider Spreading the Net Nexus, to improve options for NZ Cement cargo owners, to reduce their costs 8 Nexus and facilitate the most efficient flow Ports of Auckland is now host to a POAL’s Point of Difference of their cargo across NZ. We have state of the art, huge white, 30,000 successfully implemented our new 10 Port Development tonne capacity cement storage Port Connect port operating system (Navis N4) dome owned and operated by Great New Tools in July as part of our plan to use technology better and become a Holcim, a major supplier of cement, 12 Market RoundUp smarter port. N4 will support other aggregates and ready-mix concrete smart initiatives such as using to the NZ market. The inflated dome Editorial: Anne Hunter Front cover photo: Looking back at Auckland Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is part of Holcim New Zealand’s city from the heights of a ZMPC crane on to speed up handling at the terminal. Fergusson container terminal he 2014/15 financial year be possible without our customers vigorous. However looking further NZ$100M restructuring which Back cover photo: Ports of Auckland’s new was a good one for Ports of and supply-chain partners, so I’d ahead, Auckland’s story is all about includes the dome in Auckland and landscape featuring the recently constructed Auckland despite a number like to thank you for your continued We are also consulting staff and Holcim white dome shaped cement silo T growth and to accommodate that we a similar new facility at PrimePort carrying out a scoping study on a of challenges. Our performance support. Recognition of our are making significant investments in Timaru. continued to improve and, as the performance came in September rail, on-port and the off port supply proposal to partially-automate the official statistics show, our container with POAL’s selection as a finalist chain. We have greatly increased container terminal. Automation has Holcim says the Auckland terminal terminal is now the most efficient in for the Terminal Operator of the Year our use of rail with a quadrupling in the potential to deliver capacity and will provide effective access to the Australasia with record productivity in the 2015 Lloyd’s List Asia Awards rail connections between the port performance benefits and ensure we this year. That is a major achievement – the only port in the Southern and our Inland Port at Wiri. That continue to perform at world class major market of the greater Auckland and one that we hope makes our Hemisphere to be shortlisted. has resulted in 3,000 less truck levels. and the upper North Island. The customers happy and Aucklanders Whether we win or not, the fact that movements a month to and from the dome is in the process of being proud. We also delivered a good we are up among some of the world’s terminal. Our goal is to move 35% of Finally, thanks again for your strengthened and fitted out and is financial performance and another biggest and best port operators is a our total throughput on rail. continued support. May you enjoy expected to be fully operational real win for our team. strong dividend for Auckland. a busy and productive peak season within the third quarter of 2016. Tony Gibson We have developed a network of and a happy and relaxing festive CEO Ports of Auckland Container volumes hit another record Things look tougher for the next intermodal freight hubs – so far at season to follow! – after having been expected to fall financial year with a slower economy Wiri, at Longburn in the Manawatu – and multi-cargo volumes boomed, a lower dollar and lower commodity and most recently at Mt Maunganui 2 especially cars. None of this would prices. Growth is unlikely to be as in the Bay of Plenty. Watch this Operations Review Interconnect Heart Transplant Automation and Expansion Automation is among the advances computer – the type of task that the enabled by the new system including system takes over automatically. such tools as OCR – Optical So, we take out the boring tasks Character Recognition Cameras and that people don’t function well at PDS – Position Detection Systems It was a heart and lungs during the implementation and but retain a significant element of – both designed to reduce damage, transplant – a job rarely to ensuring the process went engaged labour while increasing their speedup and streamline container undertaken without a shutdown smoothly. “We knew about the stacking and retrieval in the yard and engagement with tasks people are period or a serious amount difficulties experienced by other at the gates. inherently good at and enjoy doing. of customer pain. So it was ports so we were able to learn Automation is all about how well you that in July 2015, without any and benefit from them”. Raoul Borley explains that the port handle exceptions; people are good noticeable shutdown, POAL is half way through a consultation at exceptions, machines are not.” introduced its new operating A modern system on a modern process with staff about a proposal system, Navis N4. In the switch platform, N4 is shared by the to partially automate the container New Berth Built majority of ports in NZ and If automation proceeds then POAL over from the old SPARCS terminal. A decision will be reached around the world – at 118 would be the first automated system to going live with N4, early in 2016. He explains that the for Three terminals in total and counting. container port in NZ. “We have the implementation process proposal would involve the use of ”That commonality allows us to some unique ideas and innovative was recognised ‘the best 15.5m high automated straddle share information and brings a in Australasia’ by Navis, by carriers that can stack containers approaches that we believe would high level of support. Essentially other ports who had suffered up to four high (3m higher than make our version of automation, A contract was signed for the the completion of the new berth. “We N4 enables easy interface with through glitches in their own existing machines in the fleet that a global game-changer. We would construction of a new northern berth are currently evaluating what cranes new technologies and tools system implementations and, stack three high) to carry out the like to lead the world – not just NZ at POAL’s Fergusson Container we will buy but I can say we will be that will have a big impact on most importantly, by POAL less complex tasks in the yard. – in a version of automation that we Terminal and wharf in September. looking closely at semi-automatic, our operation. Our goals and customers. “Returning a 30% increase in Due for completion at the end of remote-control models. Certainly expectations are high: we believe we can install at a fraction terminal capacity, this automation 2017, it will make Fergusson a three with multi-lift capacity for up to 4 X believe that we now have the of the cost currently being spent General Manager Operations, would also make the job easier for berth capacity container terminal. 20ft or 2 X 40ft containers, they will tools to set a whole new global by others to achieve the benefits of Raoul Borley, confirms that POAL staff while reducing the complexity POAL GM Operations, Raoul Borley, have greater capacity and be more standard in port productivity”. automation ” said Raoul Borley. put enormous effort into reducing of some of the more mundane tasks confirms that three new cranes will productive than our current cranes.” 4 the risk of system outages like punching numbers into the be ordered to arrive to coincide with Supply Chain Interconnect development is due for completion Spreading the Net early 2016. This site will be run by Australasian transport and logistics A year ago Ports of Auckland specialist Toll Group. unveiled a dynamic new supply chain strategy based on the All these links in POAL’s developing development of a network of supply chain network, mean intermodal freight hubs and the shipping lines calling Auckland provision of independent container with cargo for other NZ regions logistics and distribution services e.g. Bay of Plenty or Manawatu across NZ. can have cargo transferred directly to the POAL IPs for Since then POAL has continued onward distribution. The process to develop the network. Recently is repeated in reverse for export its new intermodal freight hub at cargo emanating from the regions. Mt Maunganui in Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, became the third link in POAL’s General Manager a network that includes Longburn Business Development and in the Manawatu and Wiri in South Chief Financial Officer, Wayne Auckland. And the network will Thompson, confirmed that POAL continue to expand with more links will continue to take a landlord role and hubs expected before the year in the development of its supply end. chain network, to provide the infrastructure. It will work with third parties who operate the freight On announcing the Mt Maunganui Aerial view of Ports of Auckland Wiri Intermodal Freight Hub hub in August, POAL Chief hubs. “The other important part of Executive, Tony Gibson, said the The state of the network is such has been completed.