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August 2016
About ICHCA – International Cargo Handling Coordination Association
The International Cargo Handling Coordination Association (ICHCA) is an international, independent, not-for-profit organisation dedicated to improving the safety, security, sustainability, productivity and efficiency of cargo handling and goods movement by all modes and through all phases of national and international supply chains. ICHCA International’s privileged non-government organisation (NGO) status enables it to represent its members, and the cargo handling industry at large, in front of national and international agencies and regulatory bodies. Its Expert Panel provides best practice advice and publications on a wide range of practical cargo handling issues. ICHCA Australia Ltd is proud to be part of the ICHCA International Ltd global network. To access past newsletters and other useful information go to the ICHCA Australia website at www.ichca-australia.com . We also have an ICHCA international website at www.ichca.com To join ICHCA please contact Peter van Duyn, Company Secretary of ICHCA Australia Ltd on [email protected] or telephone 0419 370 332.
Inside This Issue
New Company Secretary for ICHCA Australia .................................................................................. 1
East Webb Dock Features at ICHCA Victoria Luncheon ................................................................... 2
New Panama Canal Opens For Business .......................................................................................... 3
Flinders Adelaide Container Terminal To Feature At ICHCA SA Luncheon – 8 Sept 2016 ............... 5
Holman Fenwick Willan Joins ICHCA Australia ................................................................................ 7
New WA Transport Director General Appointed ............................................................................. 7
Container Handling Innovation At London Gateway ....................................................................... 8
ICHCA Contacts .............................................................................................................................. 10
New Company Secretary for ICHCA Australia
Dear ICHCA Members and associates
Ian Lovell has resigned as Company Secretary in order that he can enjoy his retirement. He has asked me to send you the following message:
“Just to let you know I have retired from my position as Company Secretary of ICHCA Australia in order to enjoy my retirement and travel extensively as well as doing all those things that retirement lets you do – like spending more time with the grandkids. During the 10 years as company secretary I have been privileged to
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meet and work with a lot of really bright and nice people. To all of them I thank you for your support and friendship.
The ICHCA Board has appointed Peter Van Duyn to the position of Company Secretary and I’m sure Peter will do a good job.”
Peter’s contact details are:
Peter Van Duyn Company Secretary ICHCA Australia Limited ABN 68 098 986 666
492 George Street, Fitzroy, Victoria 3065 Phone +61 3 9919 6264 Mobile +61 4 1937 0332 Email: [email protected] Website: www.ichca-australia.com
Also please note that we will be moving our ICHCA ‘office’ from Adelaide to Melbourne and the new address is 492 George Street, Fitzroy, Victoria 3065.
East Webb Dock Features at ICHCA Victoria Luncheon
On July 28 a well-attended ICHCA luncheon was held at The Marriott Hotel in Melbourne. The new container terminal operator in Melbourne, Victoria International Container Terminal Limited, gave a presentation about the proposed set up at East Webb Dock. Operations Manager, Tony Desira, and Media and Community Relations Manager, Claire Jordan-Whillans, gave a detailed overview of how the terminal will operate. Civil works are nearly complete and most of the operational equipment such as ship to shore cranes, automated stacking cranes and shuttle straddle carriers are on site and the terminal hopes to open its doors by the end of the year.
Tony Desira and Claire Jordan-Whillans describing
the new VICT container terminal
When completed the terminal will be the most sophisticated automated terminal in Australia with driverless ship to shore cranes, driverless straddles and fully automated paperless receival and delivery of containers.
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A lively Q&A followed the presentation and lunch was enjoyed by all. The luncheon provided an opportunity for networking with industry professionals and gave an insight into how a modern container terminal will operate.
The next ICHCA Victoria luncheon will be held in late October with details to follow.
New Panama Canal Opens For Business
Photo: Panama Canal Authority
The first vessels have transited the new Panama Canal. The first, the 9,400 TEU container vessel Andronikos was renamed China Shipping Panama for the occasion. The US$5.25 billion expansion program is the largest improvement project in the Canal’s 102-year history. It included the construction of new, larger locks on both the Pacific and the Atlantic sides and dredging of more than 150 million cubic metres of material, creating a second lane of traffic and doubling the capacity of the waterway. The new locks use tugs to guide the vessels rather than locomotives (or mules) as was the custom in the old locks.
The container vessel charter market is currently depressed (269 container vessels are laid up according to Alphaliner). Shipping experts believe that even with the increased scrapping of younger vessels (e.g. MOL Excellence, a 4,646 TEU vessel which was a regular visitor to Australian shores is being scrapped after only 13 years of service), the new tonnage (comprising mainly large vessels), scheduled to come on line in the next few years, will exacerbate this problem for years to come. For shipping lines servicing Australia, this could mean a cascading down of larger vessels into Australian services. These larger vessels, with wider beams and longer lengths, could create issues for ports with restricted infrastructure such as Swanson Dock in the Port of Melbourne.
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The larger Canal is anticipated to open up new routes, services and market segments. The expansion will double the waterway’s capacity and allow passage of New Panamax container vessels with a capacity of up to 14,000 TEU.
The Panama Canal accounts for about 5% of the world sea trade and the extended Panama Canal is estimated to generate a 60% increase in cargo volumes transiting the Canal. About 60% of the Panama Canal traffic either begins or ends in U.S. ports, so the increased capacity will have a notable impact on the trade between Asia and the U.S. East Coast.
Recently the 10,000 TEU container vessel, MOL Benefactor, with a length of 337 metres and a beam of 48 metres, transited the Canal north bound on its way to the Port of New York and New Jersey. It paid a record toll of more than US$829,000 for the transit. Ports located along the U.S. East Coast and the Gulf are investing billions of dollars in preparation for the arrival of the larger vessels. This has had its difficulties, such as the raising of the Bayonne Bridge roadway by 20 metres, a US$1.3 billion project due to be completed in late 2017 that is the key to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s efforts to attract larger container ships. Extensive and environmentally sensitive dredging is required at a number of East Coast ports to accommodate the larger vessels as well as extending the booms of ship to shore container cranes in order to service the wider container vessels.
Currently, East Coast ports get about 35% of the container traffic from Asia, while the other 65% is unloaded at West Coast ports such as Los Angeles-Long Beach and Seattle-Tacoma, which can already handle larger ships and have the additional advantage of access to roads that are less congested than those of the eastern seaboard.
The Panama Canal extension could shift the flow of goods from the U.S. West Coast to the East Coast. However, Basil Karatzas, a shipping consultant in New York said, “It’s not self-evident that the ports will benefit on the East Coast”. The main advantage would be that shipowners and their customers will gain a cheaper way to reach markets in the densely populated eastern half of the United States via the Atlantic ports, but it will be slower.”
The trip from Asia to markets on the eastern seaboard is about 18 days via the West Coast ports, using trucks and trains for the final leg. The same journey takes 22 days sailing through the Panama Canal to East Coast ports, including road and rail transport.
One of the other benefits from the Canal expansion will be exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the U.S. Gulf Coast. The U.S. will become the world’s third-largest LNG producer after Australia and Qatar by 2020, according to a report by the Energy Information Administration (EIA). LNG tankers will be able to reach buyers in Asia and South America faster and at lower costs with the potential for 550 tankers a year using the Canal by 2021.By using the Canal, large tankers bound for Asia may save as much as US$3.2 million per round-trip compared with travel through the Suez Canal and US$2.8 million compared with travelling around Africa’s Cape of Good Hope.
The Canal will reduce travel time from the U.S. Gulf Coast to Japan to 20 days compared to 31 days through the Suez Canal and from 34 days around the southern tip of Africa. Trips to Chile will shrink to eight or nine days from 20 and from 25 to five days to Colombia and Ecuador, according to the EIA report. This could certainly have a detrimental effect on a number of large LNG export operations in Australia such as Curtis Island in the Port of Gladstone and the North West Shelf Project, as well as future projects coming on line such as the Ichthys LNG Project which is being realised at Baldin Point in the Port of Darwin.
Time will tell whether the huge investment in the Canal expansion will pay off in years to come.
By Peter van Duyn Maritime Logistics Expert, Institute for Supply Chain and Logistics at Victoria University
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Flinders Adelaide Container Terminal To Feature At
ICHCA SA Luncheon – 8 Sept 2016
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Holman Fenwick Willan Joins ICHCA Australia
Holman Fenwick Willan is a law firm that specializes in international commerce. With over 450 lawyers working across Asia, Australia, the Middle East, Europe and South America, they provide a global service 24 hours a day.
Opening in Australia in 2006, the Australian team includes 18 partners and over 30 legal staff situated in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth. HFW is integrated with their global network and service clients across Australia and internationally. Their lawyers are focused on specific industry sectors and provide support for domestic, Asia Pacific and other international issues.
HFW is committed to supporting their clients through both contentious and non-contentious legal work in a number of sectors such as Logistics, Maritime and Shipping, Ports and Terminals and Trade and Commodities.
ICHA Australia warmly welcomes HFW as a new member.
New WA Transport Director General Appointed
The newly appointed West Australian Director General of the Department of Transport, Richard Sellers, will take up the role on September 12. Mr Sellers has accepted a five-year term. WA Transport Minister, Dean Nalder, said, "As the head of Western Australia's Transport portfolio, Mr Sellers will concurrently hold the
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positions of Director General of the Department of Transport, Commissioner for Roads WA and Chief Executive Officer of the Public Transport Authority.
"Key responsibilities will include setting the strategic direction of transport in WA, shaping the development of a number of major integrated transport plans and leading the implementation of WA's transformational capital projects."
Mr Sellers is currently the Director General at the Department of Mines and Petroleum, a position he has held since June 2009. Prior to this role, he was the Executive Director of Minerals and Energy and the Department of Primary Industry, Fisheries and Mines in the Northern Territory.
Mr Sellers holds a Bachelor of Applied Science Biology, Graduate Diploma in Education and Master of Public Policy and Management.
The Minister said Mr Sellers was a highly skilled public servant who had taken a lead role in improving WA's mining approval process and encouraging exploration to ensure WA's ongoing development. "He has well established credentials as an outstanding organisational leader, with the ability to implement innovative and significant reforms.”
"The transport portfolio is one of the largest and most challenging in this State. Mr Sellers' track record has him well placed to deliver further improvements to our integrated transport network in WA over future years."
Mr Sellers replaces Reece Waldock who retired in July.
Container Handling Innovation At London Gateway
Container Handling PTI Newsletter reports that container ships have doubled in size since planning began more than a decade ago for London Gateway, the new UK deepsea container port located on the River Thames.
It says that today’s ultra-large container ships measure up to 400 metres in length and hold more than 18,000 shipping containers. As the global race to move ever-increasing volumes of trade ever more cheaply goes on, container vessels will continue to get bigger. To capture this high volume trade, ports face the dual
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challenge of creating the capacity to accommodate these huge vessels, and loading/unloading their cargo in the most efficient and cost effective manner possible.
With its deep-water channel, 17-metre deep berth pockets and state-of-the-art container handling equipment, London Gateway has been built to manage these ocean-going juggernauts on a scale never seen before in the UK. Once fully operational, the port’s owner, DP World, expects to be able to handle 3.5 million containers a year.
To help realise its vision, DP World is using a pioneering container handling equipment solution, which has been developed and built by marine equipment and services provider TTS Liftec. The solution involves the use of steel platforms (cassettes) and hydraulically operated self-loading trailers (tranlifters). Multiple containers are safely stacked on a single cassette, which is then picked up and moved around the port by a translifter.
This system has been used for more than 20 years in ro-ro terminals and in Scandinavian steel/paper mills, and is now being taking advantage of by some of the world’s leading ports, including APM Terminals in Virginia, US. London Gateway is currently using ten TTS translifters and 115 cassettes to transport containers between its automatic stacking cranes and the railway line, as well as to and from the customs area. The cassettes have been custom built to ensure they are tall enough to align with the loading docks in the logistics park terminal. They are able to handle two 20 foot containers, or single 40 foot and 45 foot containers.
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ICHCA Contacts
ICHCA Australia Chairman: John Warda Mobile: 0417 875 113 Email: [email protected]
National Secretary: Peter van Duyn 492 George Street, Fitzroy, Victoria 3065 Tel: 0419 370 332 E-mail [email protected]
State Co-ordinators State Chairs New South Wales: John Ingster Strang International Pty. Ltd. Suite 4.05, 247 Coward Street, Mascot NSW 2020 Tel: 0416 237 074 Fax: (02) 9317 4514 Email: [email protected]
South Australia: Neil Murphy 12 Ashley Ave, Ridgehaven 5097 Tel: (08) 8263 7686 Email: [email protected]
Queensland: Sallie Strang Strang International Pty. Ltd. 936 Nudgee Road, Northgate Queensland 4013 Tel: (07) 32678022 Mobile: 0412 604 842 Email: [email protected]
Victoria: Peter van Duyn Institute for Supply Chain and Logistics Victoria University, PO Box 14428, Melbourne VIC 8001 Phone +61 3 9919 6264 Mobile +61 4 1937 0332 Email: [email protected]
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