Patrick Terminals

Patrick Terminals to introduce container management solution

Patrick Terminals and OneStop announced the introduction of OptiBook, a container management solution integrated with the OneStop Vehicle Booking System.

OptiBook is going to provide Patrick Terminals’ customers with enhanced visibility of container status, expedited access to available containers, and an improved slot booking process.

Additionally, the new system will facilitate more efficient truck bookings for available containers that have been cleared and discharged, and provide a...

https://container-news.com/patrick-terminals-to-introduce-container-management-solution/

Liebherr proceeds with crane upgrade projects in Australia and US

Liebherr Container Cranes has completed its first ship-to-shore lifting height project with the new patented lifting system, as part of the Liebherr Transform project, at Patrick Terminals – Brisbane Autostrad in eastern Australia.

Additionally, Liebherr announced that it is going to extend the outreach and the lift height of the cranes in GCT New York LP.

Liebherr has two ship-to-shore (STS) container cranes at Patrick Terminals – Brisbane Autostrad, a new STS currently in operation, and an STS...

https://container-news.com/liebherr-proceeds-with-crane-upgrade-projects-in-australia-and-us/

Patrick Terminals announces Voluntary Productivity Reporting

Pictured: tugs and ships at Brotherson Dock, Port Botany. Patrick Terminal cranes (red livery) can be seen at the back-right of the picture. Photo: Shipping Australia.

Stevedore Patrick Terminals has announced that it has begun two new voluntary landside efficiency initiatives.

The company will begin the publication of quarterly landside performance metrics for Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Fremantle. The metrics broadly align with the Victorian Voluntary Port Performance Model which was...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/patrick-terminals-announces-voluntary-productivity-reporting/

CMA CGM new panamax vessel breaks Australia’s record at Port Botany

Australia’s major container terminal operator, Patrick Terminals has announced that the 10,926 TEU CMA CGM Estelle set a record calling Port Botany, carrying the most containers ever carried by a single ship in Australia.

CMA CGM Estelle is deployed on the NEMO Australia Express Service between Europe, the Indian Ocean and Australia, which is a joint service by MSC and CMA CGM.

The previous record was achieved by another CMA CGM vessel, CMA CGM Ural, in June 2020.

Michael Jovicic, CEO of Patrick...

https://container-news.com/cma-cgm-new-panamax-vessel-breaks-australias-record-at-port-botany/

Patrick seals enterprise bargain with employees

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By Patrick Terminals

After two years of negotiation, the new Patrick Terminals Enterprise Agreement has been voted up by employees across all four Patrick terminals.

The new deal provides Patrick Terminals with increased operational flexibility to better meet customers’ needs and service the changing supply chain landscape. The new agreement provides Patrick Terminals with the right to recruit at their discretion without restrictive union quotas.

Michael...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/patrick-seals-enterprise-bargain-with-employees/

Industrial umpire to rule in Patrick vs MUA dispute

Pictured: containers stacked in a yard. Photo credit: Chuttersnap via Unsplash.

Patrick Terminals has today advised that there will be a three-day hearing at the Fair Work Commission to determine whether the current Patrick Enterprise Bargaining Agreement can be terminated.

In a statement from Patrick today, the terminal operator noted that it is “evident that the current agreement was no longer fit for purpose”.

The stevedore pointed to a number of operational restrictions within the current...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/industrial-umpire-to-rule-in-patrick-vs-mua-dispute/

MUA backs down from programme of rolling strikes

Pictured: a representation of Justicia, or “Lady Justice”, an anthropomorphic personification of justice. Credit: Tingey Injury Law Firm and Unsplash

The Maritime Union of Australia has agreed to withdraw an extensive series of strikes and stoppages at Patrick Terminal after the stevedore lodged an application with the Fair Work Commission to terminate the strikes.

News was just received at 17:57 on Wednesday 10 November 2021.

Patrick lodged its application with the Fair Work Commission on Monday...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/mua-backs-down-from-programme-of-rolling-strikes/

Summary: Patrick seeks to terminate enterprise agreement with the MUA

Pictured: a representation of a stevedore wearing a mask aboard a containership. Credit Sebastian Herrmann, freetousesounds, via Unsplash and Shipping Australia

Patrick Terminals announced, in the early evening of Tuesday 26 October 2021, that it has lodged an application with the industrial umpire, the Fair Work Commission, to terminate its enterprise agreement with the Maritime Union of Australia.

The agreement is no longer fit for purpose, as it contains a number of operational restrictions...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/patrick-seeks-to-terminate-enterprise-agreement-with-the-mua/

Ruined Christmas Day? Blame the MUA

Photo: Irena Carpaccio via unsplash

Coming out of months of lockdown, with a nation in distress from the tragedies of COVID, and trying to shake off our economic troubles, what we really don’t need is an aggressive round of nationwide strikes designed to sabotage our Christmas.

But that’s just what your unfriendly and uncaring, Maritime Union of Australia has done.

There are in excess of 200 industrial actions planned. There are a series of rolling bans and stoppages at terminals in Sydney,...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/ruined-christmas-day-blame-the-mua/

Upcoming industrial action at Patrick Terminals, delays expected

Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) said that its members at Patrick Stevedores in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Fremantle will take protected industrial action following more than 18 months of negotiations over a new enterprise agreement (EA).

MUA Assistant National Secretary, Jamie Newlyn said management at Patrick had made a series of exaggerated and untrue claims about the breakdown of talks over a new agreement and instead of suggesting Christmas was at risk, the company should stop trying...

https://container-news.com/upcoming-industrial-action-at-patrick-terminals-delays-expected/

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