Asciano settles on Patrick shake-up
Asciano has confirmed the change in reporting structure for its stevedoring firm, Patrick, foreshadowed last October.
Former Patrick boss Paul Garaty left on January 1 but his former position, Divisional Manager Patrick, will go too and the internal and external search for a replacement has been shelved.
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Toll's takeovers man to go next year
Stephen Stanley, the man Paul Little entrusted with Toll’s vaunted takeover strategy over the past decade, will leave the firm on June 30, the firm says today.
Having arrived in 1999 as head of development in his late 30s, Stanley bows out as Director of Strategy, Mergers and Acquisitions having been involved with some of the pivotal purchases in the company’s as it grew from a domestic trucking and logistics giant to a global transport and freight forwarding power.
There was no mention of a successor.
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SPC gives PBLIS thumbs up in annual report
Sydney Ports Corporation has used the release of its annual report for 2010/11 to hail improvements wrought by the Port Botany Landside Improvement Strategy (PBLIS).
The strategy, which came into effect on February 28, allows for both container stevedores and trucking operators to be fined if slots fail to be fulfilled.
Since then, the system had consistently reduced truck average turnarounds at Port Botany from more than 50 minutes to about 30 minutes per truck, according to the Corporation.
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Contract and cranes for Patrick as customers criticise
Asciano has revealed a contract extension for stevedore Patrick with the world’s second-largest shipping line and confirmed crane investments a week after container-line representative body Shipping Australia took a heavy swipe at Port Botany productivity.
Patrick has secured a five-year Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) extension starting January 20, with MSC having the right of early termination at the end of year three.
“The successful completion of another agreement with our long term customer, MSC, will see our Patrick operations handle approximately 550,000 containers nationally for MSC in the first year of the agreement,” Asciano CEO John Mullen says.
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Tasports loses battle and now jobs
Tasports has backed down on its demands for Triabunna Woodchip Mill to pay a $2.5 million transfer fee for the site’s wharf lease
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DP World gains cranes as upgrade continues
Stevedore DP World has taken delivery of four new rubber-tyred gantry cranes (RTGs) for its Port Botany operations.
They are part of a longstanding equipment upgrade for the company’s Sydney container terminal and come both as competitor Patrick indicates that it will upgrade some of its wharf hardware and in the wake of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission noting that national stevedore productivity had levelled out.
They also precede the arrival of a third stevedore, Hutchison Port Holdings, next year.
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Patrick looks to efficiencies from MUA wage deal
A relieved Asciano appears to have finally stitched up the long-awaited enterprise bargaining agreement with the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) for its Patrick container terminals and expects significant productivity increases to flow from it.
Some residual doubt remains, given Asciano had thought a deal had been agreed in August, and Patrick’s bulk and general stevedoring businesses are not affected.
“The agreement provides our employees with fair and competitive conditions of employment including a renewed commitment to training and development,” Asciano CEO and Managing Director John Mullen says.
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ACCC warning on port capacity and landside performance
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has raised the spectre of Melbourne port capacity constraints by 2015 imitating those experienced recently in Sydney.
It also notes that stevedores lack any incentive to improve poor performance in servicing trucks, except in Sydney under the Port Botany Landside Improvement Strategy (PBLIS).
Commenting on the ACCC’s annual report on stevedoring operations, Container stevedoring monitoring report no. 13, Chairman Rod Sims urges the Victorian Government to embrace stevedoring newcomer Hutchison Port Holdings, which is due to start operations in Sydney and Brisbane in 2013.
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MUA strikes called off as talks resume with Patrick
MUA strikes against stevedore Patrick cancelled, with both parties agreeing to return to the negotiating table
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Patrick boss Garaty to hand over reins
Asciano is to lose the boss of its Patrick container terminals and stevedoring division, Paul Garaty, early next year.
Despite trenchant recent criticism of Patrick in Sydney from the trucking, container shipping and freight forwarding sectors, Asciano CEO John Mullen praised the outgoing director, who took up the Patrick post only in January.
“The Patrick businesses have achieved significant improvements in performance over the last 18 months under Paul’s leadership and given the depth of the senior management team in the ports division, we are confident this performance will continue and that it will be business as usual with our customers and stakeholders," Asciano CEO John Mullen says.
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Darwin strike called off, but other stoppages go ahead
A 24-hour strike against stevedore Patrick has been cancelled at the Darwin port
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MUA strikes again as Patrick refuses to surrender
Rolling strikes against stevedore Patrick will start tomorrow but the stevedore is refusing to budge on its wages offer
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Asciano boss eyes port congestion action
Mullen sees Sydney intermodal options and synergies between Patrick and Pacific National as offering a solution
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Body blow for BlueScope's export supply chain
Turning BlueScope Steel’s Port Kembla blast furnace off will reduce the company’s 5.2 million tonne per annum export volumes by half
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Mullen rejects Asciano demerger
Asciano CEO John Mullen rules out further restructure or asset sales on the back of firm results announced today
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Productivity plummets for Patrick at Port Botany
International shipowners liken terminal performance to a Third World operation as stevedore urges MUA to sign pay deal
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Asciano signs new container deal with Maersk
Asciano finalises a new five-year deal with Maersk Line on container terminals
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Search for weighbridge options at Port Botany
Gay gives more time as industry claims RTA initiative is misconceived and under-analysed
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MUA eyes Patrick strike to secure new agreement
Maritime union granted the right to ballot Patrick Stevedores employees over strike action to secure new workplace agreement
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Patrick strike not a repeat of 1998 dispute
Workplace law specialist says the MUA's strike against Patrick is unlikely to be a repeat of the bitter 1998 waterfront dispute
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