Australian logistics services provider Qube and the Port of Melbourne has secured a short-term agreement that makes available empty container park (ECP) capacity for up to 9,000 TEU. Port of Melbourne CEO, Brendan Bourke, said the solution will help alleviate the backlog of empty shipping containers across the supply chain as a result of strong and sustained import volumes.<\/p>\n
Port of Melbourne CEO, Brendan Bourke, said: \u201cIt\u2019s critical that the port supply chain is able to able to operate as efficiently and effectively as possible, and part of that is making sure that empty containers can be moved and utilised to enable the flow of goods into and out of the port.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have closely monitored land requirements for the supply chain throughout the pandemic. As a result, we\u2019ve been able to reallocate a parcel of land for a period of time which allows Qube to make use of the site while we work with industry towards longer-term solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n
Swanson Dock utilisation<\/strong><\/p>\n Allocation of the 60,000sqm site within the Port of Melbourne\u2019s Swanson Dock precinct, which is operational immediately under Qube\u2019s management, follows ongoing discussions between Port of Melbourne, Qube and Freight Victoria.<\/p>\n Welcoming the deal, Qube\u2019s chief operating officer, Paul Digney, said: \u201cQube is delighted to be part of the solution with the Port of Melbourne and we look forward to support from the industry.\u201d<\/p>\n Melbourne has been experiencing container congestion since last year, exacerbated by earlier congestion at Sydney, which has also faced industrial action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Port of Melbourne has struck a deal that will help ease shipping container congestion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-1309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oceania"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1311,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions\/1311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}