FREMANTLE PORTS’ COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER APRIL | 2017

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12 years of helping children through Purple Haze

Fremantle Ports has conducted an annual marine quality monitoring program since 2001 to assess the potential impact of port-related activities on marine water quality, the health of biota (as tested in mussels) and marine sediments.

Water, sediment and mussel samples are taken from operational areas annually at 28 sites in the Fremantle Inner Harbour, shipping channels

Monitoring our water quality

Fremantle Ports Environmental Advisor Adam van der Beeke (right) and a diver taking water samples in the Inner Harbour as part of the monitoring program

... and baked purple-iced cupcakes for Starlight fundraising (from left: Chantelle Jones, Linda Hardinge, Caris Vuckovic, Aleesha Harris, Dee Jordan and Eugenie Ong)

Staff from Fremantle Ports rattled tins before the Purple Haze Game (from left: Sophie Gillespie, Nikki Bañez, Rob Woodrow, Aleesha Harris and Danielle Wares) for the Starlight Children’s Foundation ...

and Cockburn Sound. Mussels are tested for tributyltin (TBT), hydrocarbons, heavy metals and coliform bacteria.

Fortnightly water sampling also occurs at two Fremantle Harbour locations and one upstream site as an extension to the Swan River Trust/Department of Water Swan River Estuary monitoring program. Parameters measured include depth, salinity, temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH, turbidity, nutrients and chlorophyll.

The program’s results are provided to Cockburn Sound Management Council and the Department of Environmental Regulation.

For the 12th year, Fremantle Ports was the anchor sponsor for the Fremantle Dockers Purple Haze Game which raises funds for the Starlight Children’s Foundation.

Hopes are high that last year’s fundraising record of $190,000 will be broken, taking the total amount raised during Fremantle Ports’ involvement to over $1 million.

The Purple Haze Game, which is always the first Dockers home game for the season,

was against Geelong on 26 March.

Fremantle Ports staff joined other Starlight volunteers to rattle tins and spray hair purple outside the stadium.

Starlight’s mission is to brighten the lives of seriously ill children, teenagers and their families.

Established in 1988, Starlight works closely with health professionals to develop programs and enjoyable activities that have a positive impact.

Support from Starlight includes access to its in-hospital programs at Princess Margaret Hospital (Starlight Express Room, Captain Starlight and Livewire for sick teens) and life-changing Starlight Wishes.

Last year, Starlight created more than 426,000 Starlight experiences nationally for sick kids and their families.

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Fairy terns had another successful breeding season over summer at Fremantle Ports’ nesting sanctuary at Rous Head.

Adult numbers over three seasons have increased from 90 pairs in 2014-15 to 160 pairs in 2015-16 and 190 pairs this summer.

Fremantle Ports is working closely with the Conservation Council of WA to monitor the sanctuary’s success during breeding seasons which occur from November to March.

For the second year, Fremantle Ports has invited seabird biologist and citizen science coordinator Dr Nic Dunlop, of the Conservation Council, to supervise banding activities. Banding has provided further evaluation of the effectiveness of the sanctuary in meeting conservation outcomes.

Dr Dunlop supervised banding by experienced

volunteers, including Fremantle Ports environmental staff, at the sanctuary.

In December, they banded 35 large runners inside the sanctuary and counted 77 nests with younger chicks and 85 nests with eggs. In January, they banded another 32 runners.

The bird bands are provided by the Australian Government through the Australian Bird and Bat Banding Scheme, which manages collection of information on threatened and migratory bird and bat species.

Before Fremantle Ports reclaimed land at Rous Head in 2010 and created the sanctuary, fairy tern breeding in the area had been sporadic, with smaller numbers.

Monitoring data collected at Rous Head is also contributing to a broader (South West WA)

Third successful fairy tern breeding season

A fairy tern feeds its chick

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A banded fairy tern chick at Rous Head

In the WS Lonnie Awards for annual reporting, Fremantle Ports has been well recognised over the years. Its most recent success was a gold award in the Government Trading Enterprise category, its third such award in three years. The awards are held by the Institute of Public Administration Australia WA to recognise excellence and accountability in annual reporting in the WA public sector. Fremantle Ports was also awarded the Margaret Nadebaum Trophy for the best Government trading enterprise annual report. Governor Kerry Sanderson presented the gold award to Fremantle Ports CEO Chris Leatt-Hayter.

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Fremantle Ports employees have been holding a monthly photo competition for more than a year now with some outstanding results. Inner Harbour Team Leader Terry Stainton took this wonderful shot of a port sunrise in January.

citizen-science project looking at the demographic structure of the migratory population and the conservation significance of local breeding populations.

Fremantle Ports has provided the Conservation Council of WA with a grant to establish a South West fairy tern conservation network to coordinate conservation efforts around the coast.

The network has used the grant to set up a social media platform to engage bird observers in the citizen-science project and coordinate managers with volunteers in taking conservation action. It has already been very effective in the early detection of colonies forming at Fremantle, the Abrolhos, Point Walter and Mandurah.

Harbour sunrise

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Community briefs

The Fremantle Ports Award at the Castaways Sculpture Awards, in Rockingham went to Cansumerism by Hayley Bahr and Tim Keevil. Looking like a crushed can, the sculpture was made of hundreds of recycled cans and housed a fully functioning printmaking studio.

Consuming cans Fremantle Ports volunteers have received a big bouquet from St Patrick’s Community Support Centre for their help with packing Christmas hampers.

St Pat’s Fundraising and Volunteer Coordinator Melanie Watkins said that with the help of Fremantle Ports volunteers, 405 individual hampers were packed. More than 50 hampers were donated by Fremantle Ports staff for families.

‘We had really positive comments and our clients were thrilled about the quality of the food in the hampers,’ Melanie said. ‘We really appreciated your help.’

Volunteering at St Pat’s was part of Fremantle Ports’ employee workplace giving and volunteering program. This year’s workplace giving charities are Wanslea Family Services and Shenton Parks Dogs’ Refuge Home.

Hamper thanks from St Pat’s

Alessandra Mendes (left), Danielle Wares, Mike Cadden, Steve Marley and Sam Pierce were among the volunteers at St Pat’s.

Swim raises bumper funds for Fremantle charities

Swimmers take to the water at South Beach for the Fremantle Ports Swim Thru

Jeanette Murray, of Fremantle Ports, Louise Ainsworth, of the Freo Fins, and Varnya Bromilow, from St Pat’s, at a cheque handover at Freo Fins’ training at Fremantle Leisure Centre

Fremantle Ports Swim Thru at South Beach in December raised $3,500 each for St Patrick’s Community Support Centre and the Freo Street Doctor.

Organisers Freo Fins (Fremantle Masters Swimming Club) said entries more than doubled

from the previous year with almost 400 people registering to swim.

The event was held over four distances (500m, 1.25km, 2.5km and 5km) rather than 1.6km and 400m previously. The winner of the 1.25km swim was Gary Ireland.

Down Syndrome WA raised funds providing breakfast to famished swimmers.

Fremantle Ports also supported the Coogee Jetty to Jetty 21st anniversary swim and walk organised by Cockburn Masters Swimming Club on 12 March.

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Artania makes its debut

Artania is one of the cruise ships making debut calls to Fremantle Port during the 2016-17 cruise season. Sirena also called for the first time in March. In all, 60 cruise ship visits are scheduled during the financial year. The Fremantle Passenger Terminal has new lights to highlight

the impressive Howard Taylor friezes displayed in both halls in the terminal. The artworks of Western Australian flora and fauna are original features of the heritage-listed terminal. More than $2 million has been spent on this building in recent years.

Artania making its debut in the Fremantle Inner Harbour on 21 March

Have you every wondered about the container ships visiting Fremantle? How long they spend in our port and what goods they are exchanging?

Recently, Maersk Line container ship Carl Schulte visited Fremantle Port, arriving at 12.35pm on 20 February from Adelaide and leaving the next day at 4.15pm for Tanjung Pelepas, in Malaysia. As the ship’s draft was 13.6 metres, Fremantle Ports used draft-enhancing technology Dynamic Under Keel Clearance to enable it to safely traverse the Fremantle Inner Harbour, which is 14.7m deep. The ship, which was 81,628 tonnes, is 255m long and 37.3m wide. It was built in 2014.

While the ship was at Berth 8, North Quay, stevedore company Patrick unloaded 354 containers (573 TEU*, including empties) and loaded 746 containers (1292 TEU, including empties). Imports included construction materials, paper products, iron and steel products, plastic wares, agricultural and industrial machinery, alcohol, plumbing and lighting fixtures, and vegetable fats originating from the US, New Zealand and China.

Exports included grains and hay, mineral sands, scrap metals, chemicals, fresh produce, equipment and machinery. Exports were destined for more than 30 ports in countries including China, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Oman, the US, the UK, the Philippines and the Netherlands.

* Twenty-foot equivalent unit; double containers are 40-feet long and are counted as two TEU

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Bambi 3 takes the lineLine boat Bambi 3 takes the mooring line from container ship ANL Woomera at a DP World berth at North Quay in the Fremantle Inner Harbour to a Fremantle Ports mooring team. Line boats, operated and owned by Harbour Services Australia, are small, powerful, aluminium vessels that are highly manoeuvrable. As the port operates 24/7, the open line boats work in all weathers at all times.

New lighting for the Fremantle Passenger Terminal’s Howard Taylor artworks of Western Australian trees

Astor and Queen Mary 2 on 12 February

Container ship Carl Schulte at North Quay

Numerous naval visitsAustralian, New Zealand, Spanish and Italian naval ships visited the Fremantle Inner Harbour before and after Exercise Ocean Explorer which took place off the WA coast between 10-13 March. Italian naval ship Carabiniere was open to the public on Australia Day at Victoria Quay.

Italian Naval frigate Carabiniere

HMAS Adelaide lll photographed by Gary Tate on board cruise ship Astor

Day in the life of a container ship

Third successful fairy tern breeding season

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A full-scale rubbing of one of the gangways at the Fremantle Passenger Terminal was a feature artwork at a recent exhibition at the Fremantle Arts Centre.

Artist Susanna Castleden approached Fremantle Ports early last year about access to a gangway, having previously completed a similar rubbing of an aircraft wing in the United States.

The gangway print, more than 15 metres long and three metres high, was part of the SPAN exhibition, presented by the Perth International Arts Festival and Fremantle Arts Centre.

Gravity fenders at Fremantle Ports’ Kwinana Bulk Terminal have been given a new lease of life recently. Worn shackles were repaired, and chain links and rubbing strips were refurbished to ensure they sit flush with a ship’s hull.

‘The fenders are 40-tonne concrete blocks slung under the wharf. When a ship comes up against the wharf, they are pushed back on their chains,’ Deputy Harbour Master Captain Stuart Davey said.

‘The pendulum force trying to swing them back provides the fendering protection. They work by gravity, with no energy required to operate them and minimal maintenance required.

‘The fenders are very effective, flexible and responsive. The harder a ship pushes against the wharf, the more acute the chain angle and therefore the harder the fenders push back,’ Capt. Davey said.

A small amount of soil collected from Victoria Quay will be included in a new memorial garden at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.

The Flanders Fields Memorial Garden will commemorate the sacrifice of Australians in the defence of Belgium in World War I and will officially open in Canberra later this year.

Much of the soil will come from the Flanders Fields battlefields in Belgium but it will be mixed with soil from sites across Australia that have been deemed by the RSL to be significant to the war.

Victoria Quay soil to grow memorial poppies

Cruise ship gangway an art star Free energy from gravity

Artist Susanna Castleden at work making a print of the gangway

The gangway print displayed at the Fremantle Arts Centre

Gravity fenders under the wharf at Kwinana Bulk Terminal

Fremantle Mayor Brad Pettitt (left), Fremantle RSL President Rob Cashman. RSLWA President Peter Aspinall and former WA Minister for Veterans, the Hon Joe Francis MLA with an Australian Army representative dig soil near E Shed.

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Helen Cook, deputy chair of Fremantle Ports’ Board, with winner of the Visual Art Category Elyishia Sattell, of Tranby College, with her work GG (great grandmother).

Artworks shineThe Kwinana Industries Youth Art Awards 2017, held in Rockingham with support from Fremantle Ports on 15 March, featured more than 100 artworks from 12 secondary schools in the Rockingham, Kwinana and Cockburn areas. Exhibits included paintings, sculptures, ceramics, photography, film, woodwork, metalwork, and fashion and textiles. The artworks were on display at the Gary Holland Centre for a week.

Among the school students visiting the port this year have been Girrawheen Senior High School’s Year 10 VET (vocational education and training) students.

Girrawheen VET students visit Four more schools attending puppet theatre

Fremantle Ports has supported Spare Parts Puppet Theatre’s Schools Inclusion and Access Program in 2016-17. This funding, matched with Federal funding, is enabling eight primary schools to take three classes each to performances. Four schools attended performances last year and early this year Newton Primary School and Coolbellup Community School will attend Hachiko (pictured) and Phoenix PS and Hamilton Hill PS will attend The Arrival. Hachiko, the true story of a dog that waited at a Tokyo train station every day for nine years for its master to return, has public performances on 8-22 April.

Visit www.sppt.asn.au or telephone 9335 5044 to find out more and for tickets.

Hachiko (photo Jarrad Seng)