When your business has ten of millions of dollars in tied up in logistics assets, you want to keep your staff employed and the wheels, rollers and cranes moving.
Northern Stevedoring Services (NSS) has been getting extra value for money from its cranes and reach stackers discharging and delivering steel cargo.
When the ships dock, NSS Logistics Manager David Vass and Transport Manager Kellie Norris join forces to get the order to clients and David said it had been a busy period.
In one recent week shortened by public holidays, they unpacked 80 containers and delivered consignments.
A lot of it was steel he said, including reinforcing and grinding media used by mines in ball mills.
There were other challenging consignments, he said.
“We’re starting to get a few more tyres come through and managed seven, 40-foot open top unpacks for large jumbo tyres.
“So, there’s a lot of variety. A lot of product goes into the warehouse, but this week has mainly been steel.
“We’ve had a large increase in steel shipments, so we did really well in a short week.”
The NSS offer includes cranes, conveyors, negative pressure warehousing and prime movers as well as side-loading and container trailers.
Logistics materiel includes side tippers, half-height containers and full-sized containers which come with side loader delivery as well as one of the largest fleets of forklifts and reach stackers in regional Queensland.
This heavy investment in machinery and infrastructure boost the capacity for business and industry in regional Queensland to expand its operations in overseas markets.