Portfolio March 2012 - Fremantle Ports

In briefHeavy lift vessels Combi Dock I and Combi Dock IIA good appointmentPortfolio is distributed to 65,000 local residentseach quarter and we often get follow-upcomments and questions.An article in last December’s edition onthe pending retirement of Principal TradeInformation Officer (port statistics guru) RodTownsend prompted Fremantle resident JackRickie to write a congratulatory note to Rod.Jack was the port officer who interviewed Rodfor his first job at Fremantle Ports in 1968.Now retired, Jack was delighted to learn aboutRod’s long and successful career with the port.Truck messagingcommendationFremantle Ports has won a High Commendationin the Information Management category ofthe 2011 Australian Supply Chain and Logistics(ASCL) Awards for its variable messaging signssystem for trucks in the Rous Head area.Fremantle Ports established variable messagingsigns within the port to inform drivers ofcongestion and at the truck marshalling areato call up drivers as required. To allow theregistrations of vehicles, a Licence PlateRecognition camera combined with a DriverEntry Screen interactive console has also beeninstalled.Our crew catches no crabsRowing winners (from left) Esther Sutton, Jay Illingworth, Cade Zulsdorf, Nikki Banez and Eugenie Ongpage 5Double takeThese two heavy lift vessels, Combi Dock I andCombi Dock II, pictured (left) as they laid upalong Victoria Quay, will become a familiar sightin the Inner Harbour over the next two years asthey operate a feeder service for materials goingto the Gorgon Project on Barrow Island.Vale Trevor PoustieTrevor Poustie, General Manager (ChiefExecutive Officer) of the Fremantle PortAuthority from 1985-92, died in January.Mr Poustie, who was succeeded by KerrySanderson, was also Chairman of the Boardfrom 1988-92.First million tonnesFremantle Ports has now exported over onemillion tonnes of iron ore for Mineral Resourcesat Kwinana Bulk Terminal.The one-million tonne milestone was reachedduring the loading of the TMS Maria.A $44 million Fremantle Ports and privatesector investment to upgrade facilities hasincreased Kwinana Bulk Terminal’s capacity andimproved efficiency for the export of iron ore,coal and other bulk commodities.Manager Bulk Business Mark Pearce said withthe new infrastructure, the terminal would nowbe a much more efficient and productive facilityable to achieve significantly more throughputtonnages. The partnership with MineralResources was a key element of this projectwhich would generate substantial direct benefitsfor WA.“These benefits include investment at themine and port, significant local spend oninfrastructure, equipment and services,employment generation and paymentof mining royalties,” Mark said.Fremantle Ports’ crack rowing machine, underthe resplendent title of Cheap Filthy Oars, haswon back the Fremantle Rowing Club CorporateChallenge Regatta Trophy (which we last heldin 2005).The ‘Oars’, coxed by state champion EstherSutton and rowed by employees Cade Zulsdorf,Jay Illingworth, Eugenie Ong and Nikki Banez,put in an amazing effort to beat several moreexperienced crews and Fremantle Ports’ threeother crews in the event.The money raised from the annual CorporateChallenge goes towards purchasing andmaintaining the Fremantle Rowing Club’s boats,oars and sheds. Fremantle was the champion clublast year and has a group of senior rowers trainingfor the Australian Rowing Championships beingheld in WA this year.“The club’s members span a wide age range fromschool children to masters and the CorporateChallenge helps to provide boats and oars to suittheir ability, so thank you for helping to make ita success and helping Fremantle Rowing Club toachieve some of our goals,” Corporate Challengedirector Mary Searle said.O U RP E O P L E