The Team's Board Report - Mainfreight

6Mainfreight Canberra ConvoyAdelaide continues the strong upward profit trendthat started two years ago. We lost money then,made a small profit last year and this year wehave improved that result by 170%.This improved profit has meant that the extravolume of outgoing freight has allowed us toprovide Adelaide-based customers with a betterservice. We now have more outgoing linehaulmovements which helps us to provide customerswith some of the best service available out ofAdelaide.Melbourne has also seen a lot of changes overthe last six months. We welcomed Ashley Taylorinto our family as our new operationsmanager and we promoted SimonRavi-Pinto and Jenny Paterakis intonew leadership roles.and will help to provide us with some of our futureleaders.As we now own our premises we will be able tomake some changes in the depot over the comingmonths which will help to improve our operationalefficiency significantly.Wow, what an exciting year this has been so farfor our Sydney branch... and it’s only just begun!On Saturday 29 March we moved into our newpremises “50 Yarrawa Street Prestons”, and oursite is impressive (and in this instance size doesmatter!)We have added another five ownerdrivers to our fleet with three moredue to start in the next few weeks.An initiative we have recentlyinstigated is the appointment ofour first “operations cadet”. Thisdevelopment should see us bringingquality young people into thebusiness with an operational focus