Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Port Botany continues to handle large volumes of containers for Sydney, with almost 160,000 TEUs processed in December. Sydney Ports continues to monitor the economic conditions both in Australia and overseas to ensure that port activities support current operating conditions.

While we have all been working together to ensure the port continues to operate efficiently with minimal delays to both waterside and landside operations, there have recently been instances when truck queues and waiting times have been longer than desirable.

Over the next 5 days, the port is scheduled to handle 35 container vessel movements, with 19 of these movements on Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

However, the resultant pressure on the landside could mean a very busy Tuesday.

Sydney Ports is seeking the support of industry by maximising your use of a number of initiatives which are provided by the port:

• utilising weekend and Monday truck operations offered by the two stevedores;
• accessing the TruckCam images on the Sydney Ports website to monitor road movements (www.sydneyports.com.au/trade_services/logistics/road_operations/truck-cams);
• seeking further information on holiday arrangements for the port as provided by the Sydney Ports Cargo Facilitation Committee (www.sydneyports.com.au/trade_services/logistics/sydney_ports_cargo_facilitation_committee).

Your help in assisting with landside port operations over the Australia Day holiday period is appreciated.

Please feel free to give any of your contacts at Sydney Ports a call if you have any questions.

Thank you and regards

Daniel Cavallo
Senior Logistics Analyst

Sydney Ports Corporation
Level 8, 207 Kent Street | Sydney NSW 2000 Australia
PO Box 25, Millers Point | NSW 2000 Australia
E: DCavallo@sydneyports.com.au
T: +61 2 9296 4771 | F: +61 2 9296 4776
www.sydneyports.com.au