We maintain and invest in infrastructure to optimise our operational outcomes
Our ability to continue to deliver a high-quality service to our customers while focusing on continuous improvement and leveraging off our experience, reliability and agility, enabled us to achieve numerous performance highlights in 2021.
We sustained a high level of operational performance, marking our tenth year of exporting more than 100Mt per year and our second highest annual volume on record. We anticipate that overall demand for our services into 2022 will remain steady.
Key Achievements
- A record number of 1,279 vessels loaded across our two terminals.
- Received the Professional Services Award in the NSW Project Management Achievement Awards for our Project Management System Upgrade.
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Adverse weather forecasting and alerting
The introduction of an integrated adverse weather forecasting, alerting and action system has significantly reduced the risk to the safety of our people and our assets during adverse weather events.
Using an online platform integrated into our operations system, the Operations Team have enhanced capability to assess, real-time weather risks and take action to ensure we are in control of our operations in all weather conditions.
Metrics such as ocean swell, rain, dust risk, asset risk and storm cells are monitored live and adapt to the changing conditions at hand.
Further optimisation of this technology is underway, with harbour salinity monitoring and alerting being trialled in the first half of 2022, to take on a more holistic approach to weather and its short, medium and long-term potential impacts on our operations.
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Capital investment and maintenance of our assets and infrastructure
Port Waratah invested more than $24.5 million, with the majority spent locally, across 27 maintenance and infrastructure projects delivered through two major outages in 2021. The projects were aimed at improving asset reliability, maintaining structural integrity, and improving safety and environmental performance. The work ensures operations continues to contribute a valuable, flexible and efficient service to meet the needs of our customers and deliver for the Hunter Valley Coal Chain.
At the Kooragang Terminal, the works included new trimmer flaps and load shoots on two of our shiploaders providing greater efficiencies and environmental outcomes, as well as the overhaul of over 600 coal stockyard sprayers and the installation of metres and flow monitors for improved water and dust management.
In November, the Australian Institute of Project Management announced Port Waratah took out the NSW Professional Services title in the Project Management Achievement Awards, in recognition of the progressive development and implementation of our Project Management System Upgrade.
