Northern Stevedoring Services is a business delivering stevedoring, logistics and transport capabilities to facilitate imports and exports out of regional Queensland centres.
But that’s not all we produce. We produce value.
The stats to back it up.
Our team’s are setting standards in some key performance indicators.
We are national leaders in productivity for our bulk Rotabox stevedoring loading for instance.
There’s no secret. It comes down to the experience and versatility of our staff who are backed by top-shelf equipment and maintenance.
Because we are required to handle greater range of cargo than other ports, we need to deliver more training and be better placed to deliver in terms of our stevedoring and landside skills.
That’s happening at pace with the start of the New Year.
The benefits for major ports including Townsville, Mackay and Gladstone are that we have a more diverse offer to businesses looking to both import and export.
The continuity of staff adds to the rigour of the business and we are fortunate to have a lot of staff that have been with NSS long term.
I sit down in meetings with our management team with clients and give a brief introduction and realise one of our points of difference is the significant number of staff who have been with NSS for more than ten years.
During that time, we’ve seen massive changes from the types of cargo we’ve handled through to the equipment employed, how well are people are trained and the efficiencies we’ve notched up.
We’re very lucky to have such a team that have been with the company generally for a long time and have seen and experienced many aspects of the business.
That all helps for NSS to deliver a better service to its clients and dividends to owners.
We will continue to invest in our service, our people and our assets to continually expand the NSS North Queensland service offer.