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Text 13. Moorebank intermodal gets praise,
and condemnation
The federal government’s opening of the tender process
for the Moorebank Intermodal Terminal (as reported on
Transport and Logistics News) has drawn praise from the
rail industry, but also attracted criticism for its
questionable numbers.
Rail industry
The Australasian Railway Association welcomed the
federal government’s calling for registrations of interest
into the development and operation of the Moorebank
Intermodal Terminal.
“This project alone will remove significant numbers of
trucks from Sydney’s roads, reduce the cost of transporting
goods and create further export opportunities,” said
Australasian Railway Association (ARA) CEO Bryan Nye.
“The market failure of our supply chains that has resulted
in more and more trucks blocking up local Sydney’s roads,
particularly around Port Botany, is being somewhat
rectified by this project, which will generate economic and
environmental benefits long into the future.”
The project involves construction of a port shuttle to take
containers direct from the Portof Botany by rail to the
Moorebank facility, where they are then loaded onto local
or interstate rail as well as trucks. This effectively
improves efficiencies and reduces costs along the entire
supply chain, from the port to the final destination and vice
versa.
“Well-run intermodal terminals create advantages of scale
that allow rail to demonstrate its substantial competitive
advantages over other forms of freight transport,” Mr Nye
added.
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All around the world, governments and the private sector
are realising that taking the time to properly plan and
design supply chains that utilise rail’s inherent economies
of scale is well worth the investment, and the Moorebank
Intermodal Terminal is certainly a good example of that.
The terminal will directly lead to 3,300 fewer trucks
travelling on Sydney’s roads each and every day, creating
countless benefits to local communities.
“This project is a clear example of government’s use of
alternate funding mechanisms to build infrastructure that
have a net positive economic benefit,” Mr Nye continued
“In a tightening fiscal climate, finding innovative ways to
remove bottlenecks to economic productivity will be
increasingly important, and we certainly welcome projects
such as this as a big step along the way.”
Do the numbers add up?
Long-time Newcastle container terminal and Eastern
Creek intermodal campaigner Greg Cameron has
questioned the numbers behind the Moorebank terminal.
“The Australian government’s Moorebank intermodal
terminal will have 1.2m TEU IMEX capacity,” Mr
Cameron said. “Port Botany container movements are
predicted to increase from 2M TEU in 2012 to 3.2M TEU
before 2020.
“’The terminal is due to commence operations in late 2017
and will be Sydney’s major rail freight solution for
decades to come,’ according to Mr Albanese.
“Surely Mr Albanese’s statement means that Moorebank
will only handle the growth in TEU movements between
2012 and 2020, and that over this period, 1.7M TEU or
85% will continue to be moved by truck!
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“When will the Eastern Creek intermodal terminal be
built? If not by 2020, how are the additional containers to
be handled?”
Mr Cameron also questioned the NSW government’s
commitment to efficient container movements.
“Shipping containers are the standard form of distribution
for goods worldwide,” Mr Cameron said.
“It is irrational for there to be no container terminal at
the port of Newcastle and it is irresponsible to use the
vacant container terminal site for other purposes, as
the New South Wales government now intends.
“NSW Premier the Hon Barry O’Farrell MP is unable to
explain how the state’s productivity is enhanced by using
Port Botany container terminal instead of Newcastle to
service the import and export needs of northern NSW.
“The NSW government’s policy to prevent a container
terminal at Newcastle is without justification.
“Modern container terminals are served by railways, which
transport the containers to intermodal terminals, where
they are lifted onto trucks for short distance haulage to
warehouses and factories. They are returned overseas the
same way.
“Newcastle’s lack of a container terminal requires imports
and exports for northern NSW to be transported by truck,
between Newcastle and Port Botany.
“With a container terminal at Newcastle, the immediate
benefits are lower transport costs and saved time. More
importantly, economic growth in northern NSW would
increase because a container port drives new supply
chains, markets and infrastructure. Road congestion and air
pollution in Sydney would be lower.
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“The NSW government’s long-term plan to rail containers
between Port Botany and Newcastle is ridiculous when a
container terminal can operate at Newcastle.
“The government plans to reserve a corridor for building
an outer western Sydney freight rail by-pass. The route
would include Eastern Creek, where an intermodal
terminal would be built. The government plans to build a
dedicated freight rail line between Eastern Creek and
Villawood to complete the freight rail line from Port
Botany.
“Port Botany container movements are predicted to
steadily grow from 2 million TEU in 2012 to 7 million
TEU in 2030.
“The Australian government’s proposed Moorebank
intermodal terminal, in southwest Sydney, will handle just
1.2 million TEU. The Moorebank intermodal terminal
would be full as soon as it was completed, around 2017.
There would be no change in the number of containers
moved by truck compared with 2012. An intermodal
terminal at Eastern Creek is required from 2017.
“By 2030, when container movements are 7 million TEU,
about 70% would be railed to Eastern Creek intermodal
terminal.
“By eliminating the sea journey between Newcastle and
Port Botany, a container terminal at Newcastle would
enable containers to be railed between the port and Eastern
Creek faster than from Port Botany. The difference in cost,
due to distance, would be trivial.
“Instead, the NSW government is providing a 99-year
monopoly to the ‘NSW Ports Consortium’, the company
purchasing the lease to Port Botany container terminal.
“No NSW politician speaks in favour of the Port Botany
monopoly.
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“All politicians are silent, because the monopoly
disadvantages northern NSW and diminishes productivity
in NSW,” Mr Cameron said.
Text 14. Moorebank Intermodal Terminal
tender process opens
The Moorebank Intermodal Terminal is being taken to the
market with the Federal Government calling for private
companies to register their interest in developing and
operating the Moorebank Intermodal Terminal.
Federal Transport and Infrastructure Minister Anthony
Albanese said: “The Moorebank Intermodal Terminal will
bring the public and private sectors together to generate
around $10 billion in economic benefits through reduced
freight costs, reduced traffic congestion and better
environmental outcomes.
“The Terminal is due to commence operations in late 2017
and will be Sydney’s major rail freight solution for
decades to come,” Mr Albanese said.
“Once up and running, it’s forecast that the Terminal could
remove 1.2 million trucks each year from Sydney’s roads –
that’s equivalent to 3,300 trucks per day.”
“This project is essential to delivering greater freight
efficiency and competitiveness for Australian businesses
and is looking to make improvements along the length of
the supply chain.”
The Registration of Interest process is being undertaken by
Moorebank Intermodal Company, which was established
in December 2012 to take the project to market.
Since its establishment, the Moorebank Intermodal
Company has engaged widely with industry. Briefings
have already been provided to more than 60 Australian and
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international companies including large rail freight
operators, intermodal users, financiers and construction
companies.
“There is strong interest across the board in project
participation as well as from industry players keen to use
the Terminal. This reflects the commercial benefits of this
venture,” Finance Minister Senator Penny Wong said.
“The Moorebank Intermodal Terminal is an example of
government working with the private sector to bring about
an infrastructure project in the best interest of the state and
the country.”
Private sector companies and consortia with world-class
expertise in the planning and management of major freight
and logistics facilities including intermodals and
warehousing are invited to register their interest.
“This process will assist the company to identify a global
field of interested participants,” Senator Wong said.
The proposed intermodal terminal will include a port
shuttle terminal capable of handling up to 1.2 million
containers annually, an interstate terminal served by the
Australian Rail Track Corporation network with capacity
for a further 500,000 containers annually, and
complementary warehousing.
The next stage in the procurement process will commence
with a request for Expressions of Interest in August 2013.
Text 15. The Competency you Keep —
When Outsourcing Logistics
If you want a quick answer to the question, "What's new
with 3PLs?" 4PLs would be as concise as you could get.
While 4PLs have been around quite a while, the real news
is the renewed attention they're getting. A "fourth-party
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logistics (4PL) provider" is one that may manage multiple
3PLs to take on a wider range of services for shippers.
According to the 17th annual 3rd party logistics study
performed by Capgemini Consulting in conjunction with
Penn State, Panalpina, and EyeForTransport, while
transactional, operational and repetitive activities tend to
be the most frequently outsourced, as supply chain
complexity increases, so do more strategic specialty
services such as order management and fulfillment, IT
services, supply chain consulting, fleet management and
even sustainability management.
This year, 52% of shippers say fuel efficiency and carbon
emissions have become an important part of their 3PL
procurement decision processes, the report's authors
note. In Latin America 60% of shippers now see these
data as important, although those relying on 3PLs to
provide such services are still in the minority.
For proof that 4PL offerings are becoming more important
to shippers, look no further than the International
Warehouse Logistics Association (IWLA). Transportation
Insight recently became the first 4PL to become a member
of the association. They'll have a mutually beneficial
relationship with 3PL members. While it will have broader
access to warehouse partners to select for its clients, those
partners will also be able to broaden their supply chain
scope to include carrier sourcing, freight bill audit and
payment, transportation management and supply chain
analytics. Rick Brumett, vice president of client solutions
for Transportation Insights, says business has changed
drastically since he started out.
What Shippers Want: 3PLs offer a wide mix of services,
both transactional and strategic. But according to the 17th
annual 3rd party logistics study performed by Capgemini
Consulting in conjunction with Penn State, Panalpina, and
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EyeForTransport, it’s the transactional, live-for-today
services like international and domestic transportation,
warehousing, freight forwarding, and customs brokerage
that are most commonly outsourced. The less-frequently
used services are more strategic and IT-intensive, such as
order management and fulfillment, IT services, supply
chain consultancy, fleet management, customer service
and 4PL services. Sustainability/green supply chain-related
services also fall into this category. This year, 52% of
shippers surveyed said fuel efficiency and carbon
emissions have become an important 3PL offering to them,
but just 26% ask for visibility to that information.
Innovation’s rapid advances could change all that,
however. More affordable access to technologies enabling
management of huge volumes of data could empower both
3PLs and shippers to partner for visibility’s sake.
"When I grew up in the business warehousing was largely
pallet in, pallet out," he says. "Small case fulfillment or
interpack service were the exceptions. Now 3PLs have
built interpack fulfillment modules, whether that requires a
multi-level mezzanine picking platform or whether they
just carve out a piece of their warehouse to do fulfillment.
It's becoming a core business of most every 3PL that we
deal with. The exception is when they don't have highspeed picking."
But whether or not you deal with 3PLs through a 4PL,
Brummett recommends you understand how that provider
performs those services, and who is responsible for them.
You may want to pretend you're a 4PL in the selection
process—especially if you represent a new niche for them.
"I want to know their thoughts of how they feel this new
market should be served," he suggests. "I always start with
their customer and go backwards. Have a really good idea
of how they currently handle their business, how they want
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to expand into this relationship and the specific role you
want this third party operator to play in meeting your
needs. If as a 4PL I know those three answers we can
usually come very close to delivering exactly what the
customer needs."
How Sustainable Are 3PLs?
Another growing consideration for clients of 3PLs is their
sustainability—not just environmental, but as it pertains to
business viability. In fact, sustainability in every sense of
the word is important to 3PLs themselves, according to
members of the International Warehouse Logistics
Association who participate in IWLA's Sustainable
Logistics Initiative (SLI). The SLI program helps
warehouses assess the effectiveness of their organization's
environmental performance using various metrics. The
organization receives independent verification of the
effectiveness of its "green" efforts.
One of the IWLA members taking advantage of this
verification is Peter Wilson, president of Sonwil
Distribution Center Inc., Buffalo, NY. He admits that he
doubted the importance of the initiative at an early meeting
where it was discussed.
"Then I got back to my office and one of my customers
called to inform us of their company's sustainability
initiatives and said, ‘Either you're onboard or you're out.'
We were able to tell them that we had an initiative with
our association. We got involved with the SLI and got
educated on what we had to do. Now, as far as this
customer is concerned, we are one of the industry leaders
with our sustainability initiatives."
The SLI began in 2011 after the idea was turned into
reality by then-IWLA chairman Linda Hothem, who serves
as CEO of Pacific American Group and senior advisor to
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Matson Global Distribution Services Inc. She's based
in Sausalito, Calif.
Richard Murphy, president of Murphy Warehouse
Company, Minneapolis, enjoys another potential benefit of
the SLI that he hadn't expected when he was applying for a
small business loan for a new logistics facility. The Small
Business Administration loan officer told him his project
would not have qualified because of its employee-tosquare foot ratio, but since Murphy was incorporating
sustainability projects into the new facility, it was
automatically entered into the program.
Not only did his company get the loan, but Murphy
managed to obtain it at a more favorable interest rate than
he had thought possible.
This 350,000 sq. ft. building is LED lighted and is
equipped with motion sensors to keep it fully lit when the
space is occupied. It also has exterior LED lighting on
motion sensors to allow the lights to run at 20-25% of
lumens normally and once a driver shows up and needs
more light, their tripping the motion sensor brings the
lights up to 100%.
This facility also has solar power, energy-efficient HVAC
systems, and this spring will be planted with 90 trees and
three acres of native prairies. The building is under LEED
and Energy Star review this year and Murphy is aiming for
LEED Platinum certification, with a fall back to
Gold. Murphy currently has two facilities that are LEED
Gold certified and one that is LEED Silver. All are Energy
Star Certified and the company is also ISO 14001
Certified.
"Our total solar power production of 320KW makes us the
fifth largest producer in Minnesota and we are adding
another 100KW this spring," he says. "Another solar
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