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Today, serving the Mediterranean Shipping Company's mother vessel ILONA, the new facility achieved an extraordinary 45.87 moves an hour per crane. This level of productivity clearly illustrates the continued potential of high productivity levels in the future. Currently, Pusan Newport has been maintaining an average of 33.0 gross production per crane from the opening of the facility three months ago. The facilities productivity is about 35% higher in comparison to other ports.
Pusan Newport's advanced gate facility also is showing positive results with trucks averaging a 12 minute turn around time for cargo delivery. At full volume capacity the facility is designed to maintain a turn-around time of under 20 minutes. In general, most other port facilities maintain an average of 50 minutes to one hour.
The current expressway network places the location of Pusan Newport nearer to 98% of the cities and industrial areas throughout Korea by distances between 15km to 35km. The shorter distance, un-congested expressway network and fast truck turn-around-time within the facility is a cost savings advantage for the shipping community.
Rob Walker, Executive Vice President, DP World and Pusan Newport Company Ltd., said:
"In addition to the dedication of our Korean employees, effective training has been the key to this continued high productivity. This level of productivity is unheard of in a new facility and is a real credit to the team and to the extensive training they have undertaken to prepare to offer our customers top quality services from day one."
Mr Walker said, groups of crane equipment operators received training on the ground in Hong Kong, learning to operate equipment in a "live" environment. In addition, PNC had also installed equipment simulators in the local Pusan university which groups of operators had used extensively, and held special training classes at the PNC facility.
"The intensive training has really paid dividends," Mr Walker said. "Both our people and our customers benefit - our people improve their skill sets and earning power and our customers receive the quality services they have come to expect from a DP World operated terminal."
Patrick Bol, Terminal Director, DP World and Pusan Newport Company Ltd., said:
"We are very proud of all our staff which includes indirect hire and expatriates, this is a continued team effort. We see this as a safe and conservative start and are pleased with the results. This continues to show a solid foundation for consistent high productivity levels which customers have come to expect from DP World operated facilities around the world. Together with our Korean staff, we have brought safer and faster work methods to Pusan. It was difficult to change past practices that have been the operating methods of Busan. However, we now can see the results of our efforts and what our local team has achieved."
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Posted by Anne-Birte Stensgaard, Senior News Editor
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