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Port Botany penalty system just a new tax: Patrick


Regulating landside operations at Port Botany will not increase efficiency or productivity at the port, says Patrick, one of the two stevedoring companies there.
 
Patrick currently has flexible working arrangements that over the past six months have enabled the company to maintain average truck turn around times below 40 minutes despite an increase in containers by road being handled by the landside operation.
 
Patrick divisional general manager Paul Garaty commented: “Over the last six months we have made significant changes to our management team and operations to ensure that truck queues are a thing of the past, and by doing so, we’ve achieved a lot for all stakeholders by engaging with the transport community.”
 
In the past, Patrick had recognised that the unpredictable nature of the industry, as well as congestion on Sydney’s roads and in empty container parks, sometimes results in carriers arriving outside their agreed timeslot.
 
Patrick’s current flexible working arrangements include offering between 30 and 60 minute grace periods to ensure that those trucks arriving outside their window can still be serviced at the terminal.
 
Under the proposed NSW Government regulation this flexibility can no longer be provided.
 
“Currently 44, 000 trucks arrive late for their designated time slot each year. With the introduction of regulation these trucks will be turned back onto Sydney’s roads, otherwise Patrick risks exposure to delays and consequent financial penalties.
 
“By introducing these regulations the NSW Government and Sydney Ports Corporation creating congestion rather than removing it,” Mr Garaty said.
 
It has also emerged that stevedores will have to administer, manage, monitor and make system adjustments to cope with the regulations, despite the Government claiming that their new $10 wharfage charge to shipping lines was to cover implementation of the regulation.
 
“The government claimed that they need the $15 million dollars from increased wharfage charges to administer this regulation, yet in reality we are the ones that have undertake this task.
 
”This will inevitably mean that increased costs to port users from both wharfage and regulation will be picked up along the supply chain, resulting in increased costs for the people of NSW.
 
“This should be seen for what it is, just another state government tax on all consumers,” Mr Garaty said.

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