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The shifting sands of Port Botany


Charles Pauka
 
After more than a year of consultation, planning, discussion, research and design work, Sydney Ports Corporation has finally released its strategy for landside logistics improvements, but Patrick – and many transporters – don’t want a bar of it.
 
The briefing session held on Thursday morning was a fascinating spectacle, with Patrick representatives and a number of transporters joining in a united chorus condemning the plan.
 
Considering that a few months ago you couldn’t leave them unsupervised in a room by themselves for fear of a bloodbath, the new-found camaraderie was all the more remarkable because the strategy seeks to address exactly what the transporters had been – loudly and forcefully – arguing for: prescribed, measurable and enforceable performance standards for the stevedores, to give the transporters a measure of equality in a very one-sided business (non)-relationship.
 
It is amazing how short some memories are. After all, it has only been a few short months since truck drivers were forced to wait, in searing heat and with no facilities, for more than six hours at Port Botany – the congestion was so bad that the police and council rangers had to become involved.
 
After a shake-up of management and the loss of sizeable market share (Patrick is said to be down to just 35% of the container traffic at Port Botany), however, Patrick has improved its truck turnaround times (TTT) and even began to be nice to transporters, allowing 30 to 60 minutes of leeway for late-running trucks.
 
But the company now says (read Patrick’s response here) that the new penalty system will remove its ability to show flexibility towards late-running trucks, a point the transporters were quick to pick up on at the briefing.
 
They quickly joined Patrick in condemning the strategy in general and the penalty system in particular. Many transporters said that if their trucks can’t get through the M5 tunnel – apparently the reason for some 80% of late arrivals – and miss one slot, not only do they get penalised o...
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