vRole of Ports in Successful Heavy Haul

Supply Chains

Steve Lewis, NQBP CEOAugust 2016

About Our Business

• NQBP is the port authority responsible for 4 trading ports in

Queensland:

Weipa Abbot Point

Mackay Hay Point

• Bauxite

• Sugar

• Molasses

• Coal

Our seaport facilities handle bulk cargoes including:

• Grain

• Petroleum

• Fertiliser

• General Cargo

Maximise opportunity to create value

Control trade gateways (on behalf of the State)

Optimise user access

Provide port services

Focus on what is best done by ports

Invest where needed; assist private sector funding

Support and encourage free flow of information

Plan to maximise efficiency and community value

Conduit between Government and industry

Strong governance

The Role of Ports…

Our Strategy …..

Creating Value

Facilitate Trade

Regional Development

Port Sustainability

SmarterPort

The Heirarchy of Moving Freight …Right Mode, Right Load

Ship

Rail

Road

A vital partner for bulk ports

Ports in Supply Chains

Physical Condition – setting standards to enable growth

Modal Connections

Management Capabilities

Governance

Capacity Building

Assets

Sustainability

Approvals

Environmental

Abbot Point

Protecting Supply Chains

• Protect core areas of port and port-related industrial uses within the

region

• Securing access to the core area through freight corridors

• Resolve key land use conflicts & mitigate incompatible uses

• Supply chain alignment with economic development, transportation,

and land use elements of the State’s comprehensive Moving Freight

Plan

Improved freight and industrial planning around ports and

connecting corridors

Working partnerships between port, freight

and government stakeholders to address

cross-boundary/ interface issues

Beyond the boundary thinking in port master

plans

Better GIS/spatial mapping

Stronger working partnerships with Govt– faster results more

fully supported

Advocating SupplyChain Thinking

Improving Trade Competitiveness- Freight Networks

Increase our Understanding over the Integrated Supply Chains

• Better understand drivers of trade movement across the freight network

• Develop a blueprint of future network investment - inside and outside the ports

Port Offering Broader than just Infrastructure and Port Services

• Whole supply chain and the logistics networks – real value for our customers

and shareholders

• Work closer with transport network agencies

Evolving Our Supply Chain Role • Partnering role with government and greater collaboration

• Connecting with rail, road and marine supply chains for government

• Promoting inland rail and coastal shipping

Greater logistics Integration Offering • Investigate opportunities for more modal optionality at the port

Our Focus for 2016/17

Large Bulk Ports need efficient Heavy Haul Rail!

Train coming in to Hay Point – Images courtesy of Aurizon

Coal to market…….the port end

• Blend coal – value add at the port – best grade of coal –greatest return

• Improved knowledge of supply chain planning and performance

• increase throughput

• optimising asset performance and investment

• reduce demurrage

• Management of community and environmental issues on behalf of the coal port precinct

• Improve berthing and shipping operations at berths and through channels

• Participant in Integrated Logistics Company (ILC) (currently NQBP Chair) to maximise the throughput of the supply chain equitably – key focus is supply chain velocity

• Optimising heavy rail into Abbot Point (limited space requires good thinking!)

Coal to market…….the port end cont’d

Where we can add value to rail developments…

• Assisting with approvals

• Sharing plans

• Providing advice

• Our supply chain work

• Supporting investment

• Other??

A strong, sustainable port, well-

connected to rail and road

networks, is an asset that will

continue to provide benefits long

into the future for all

stakeholders.