New PBLIS regulations for Port Botany

“The aim of these regulations and standards is to drive improved efficiency and consistency between stevedores and truck carriers. This means if a truck operator is forced to wait, the stevedores must pay the trucking operator for the time they wait. With container trade through Port Botany reaching record levels, we need to ensure performance levels of stevedores and carriers improve to ensure the international competitiveness of the port,” he said.

The PBLIS regulations, which have been developed with the industry, come into effect in early December and will ensure fairness and equity between stevedores and truck carriers and will also allow Sydney Ports to set the rail price for rail servicing at the stevedore terminals. The regulations and standards are expected to be fully implemented by early 2011.

Roozendaal said the reforms were coming into effect as Port Botany records its 13th container trade record on a month-on-month basis. In October, container trade reached 180,180 teu, an increase of 1.8% on the same month last year. “The port is growing and will continue to do so. With these ground-breaking landside reforms, we have secured the long-term future and health of Port Botany.”