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WA’S ROAD TRANSPORT INDUSTRY SAFETY FORUM

RIC RANDALL (OSH OFFICER) AND GEOFF MACKIN (ACTING GM OPERATIONS)

INTRODUCTION

• The Geraldton Port has a long running relationship with the road transport

industry.

• Most products exported or imported through the Port are either delivered to
• r taken from the Port by rail, road transport or a combination of both.
• Combination of both?
• Mount Gibson Iron deliver Iron Ore

from the mine to the rail head at Perenjori by truck and then by rail to the Port.

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ROAD TRANSPORT CONTRIBUTION

For the 2017/2018 year the Geraldton Port imported / exported a total of 15,887,244 tonnes. Of this 8,347,733 tonnes were Karara shipments which are railed into the Port. The remaining 7,539,511 tonnes were transported or partly transported to or from the Port by road. This is a massive contribution by road transport operators to the Geraldton Port and the Midwest.

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GRAIN INDUSTRY

Road transport plays a very significant role in the grain industry in the state. Not only carting grain to the Port but also from storage locations within the Port. Not all of CBH storages at the Port

• r nearby are connected directly to

their ship loading facilities at Berth 3. Road transport is therefore used to relocate grain from outlying storages to those connected into the shiploading circuit.

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CBH TRUCKING

Most of the grain in the Geraldton zone is railed from each country receival point to the Port. However the receival points that are North of Geraldton are road transport receival points. Farming has come a long way from the farmer carting and delivering his own grain. A great deal of the grain carting is now done by using cartage contractors.

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MINING OPERATIONS

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EMR GOLDEN GROVE

The Golden Grove mine site located approximately 250 kilometres East of Geraldton. The two underground mines produce zinc concentrate, copper concentrate and a high precious metals (HPM) concentrate. Concentrates are exported through Geraldton to smelters in China, Japan, India, Thailand and Australia. The concentrates are transported in kibbles currently hauling 113 tonnes per load from Golden

• Grove. This would increase to

138 tonnes per load if super quads were used.

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IMERY’S TALC

The Three Springs mine is the second largest Talc mine in the world producing about 240,000 tonnes a year. Talc is transported by road to the Geraldton Port. It is the only product that is open stockpiled at the Port. It was once railed but this was ceased because of cross contamination issues with Iron Ore who was using the same rail unloading circuit in the Port.

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GMA GARNET

The GMA Garnet mine has grown to become the world's leading producer of garnet abrasives and it still has resources in excess of eight million tonnes to fall back on. The mine is opposite the northern end of the Hutt Lagoon, inland from Port Gregory. Garnet is mined from highly mineralised sand dunes and taken by dump trucks to ore stockpiles before some of it is fed into hoppers at the GMA wet processing plant. Garnet bearing ore is also taken to Geraldton to be processed at a dry processing facility that operates 24 hours a day every day of the year to produce over 400,000 tonnes of heavy mineral concentrate a year.

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ILUKA

Currently all of Iluka’s feed stock comes in from the Murray Basin in South Australia. More about that in the next few slides. Iluka has a deposit at Cataby that is currently being developed. It is a big chloride ilmenite rich deposit with a mine life of more than 8 years. First production is expected in 2019. It is expected to produce 200,000 tonnes

• f synthetic rutile, 50,000 tonnes of Zircon and 30,000 tonnes of rutile per year.

Feed stock will be transported from Cataby to both Geraldton and Capel by road transport.

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ILUKA HMC – THEVENARD S.A.

The Jacinth-Ambrosia mining and concentrating operation is located in the Eucla Basin, 270 kilometres from the Port of Thevenard near the township of Ceduna. HMC is transported from the mine site to the Port of Thevenard where it is sent by shuttle vessels (20k to 27k tonnes) to Geraldton for processing at Iluka’s mineral separation facilities at Narngulu. The final product is then exported from the Port of Geraldton. Road transport involvement includes:

From the mine to the Port of Thevenard. From the vessel to Narngulu. From Narngulu to the Port. From the Port storage to the truck unloader.

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ILUKA HMC – SELF DISCHARGE VESSEL

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TRUCK UNLOADER

Not all the storage sheds in the Port are connected directly into the ship loading circuit. Trucks are used to transport cargoes from the storage shed to the MWPA Truck Unloader and then onto the Bulk Handling Facility (BHF). This will then feed onto the Berth 4 Shiploader and then the ship. Trucks running from storages at Narngulu also use this facility.

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SANDFIRE AND IGO

Sandfire Resources The DeGrussa mine is located 160 km’s North of Meekatharra and currently produces 70 to 80,000 tonnes of Copper per year. It is destined to become Australia’s largest Copper mine. Copper is trucked 696 km’s to Geraldton. Independence Group (IGO). The Jaguar mine site is located 60 km’s North of Leonora. Copper and Zinc concentrates are trucked 720 km’s to Geraldton. This brings me to the Qube Rotainer Operations.

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MINESITE TO PORT

Qube use half containers to transport both IGO and Sandfire product to the Port.

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MOBILE STORAGE SHEDS

The full containers are stockpiled on a Port laydown area. The truck returns to the mine with empty containers and so on.

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AT THE BERTH

When there is a ship alongside to load trucks transfer the full half containers from the laydown yard to the berth.

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ROTABOX TECHNOLOGY

Qube use their shore crane and Rotabox technology to empty the containers.

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ROTABOX TECHNOLGY

The process at the berth:

Container is lifted into the ship’s hold; Container lid is lifted off; Container rotated; Cargo drops into ships hold; Lid replaced on container; Empty container returned

to the truck;

Container is taken back to

the laydown yard.

Process starts over again.

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FERTILISER AND LIVESTOCK

In the past 5 years more than 436,000 tonnes of fertiliser has been imported through the Port. This all needs to be trucked from the Port to the fertiliser companies storage facilities and then onto farms. The livestock trade is just starting to get established again. Cattle and goats are the main livestock exported from Geraldton.

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BREAK BULK CARGO

Break bulk cargo or general cargo are goods that must be loaded individually and not in bulk. At Geraldton this would include:

Bagged Garnet. Windfarm components (65 metres). Accommodation units (Dongas etc.) Gas pipelines. Power poles. Mining infrastructure. Containers.

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WINDFARM COMPONENTS

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SOUTHERN TRANSPORT CORRIDOR

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The Geraldton Southern Transport Corridor opened in 2005. The project enabled the City of Geraldton to redefine its future development promoting economic and social benefits by providing an efficient freight connection to the Port of Geraldton and removing the railway from the foreshore of the City. The project included:

11km of single rail line from the Narngulu industrial area to the Geraldton

Port.

13.5km of a new east-west highway between the Geraldton Airport and

the Geraldton Port, linking to the Mt Magnet Road.

4 bridges, 2 tunnel structures and preliminary design of 2 future bridges. 2 major interchanges between the highway and connections to the local

road network.

Construction of an eastern breakwater to the port and town beach

improvement works, utilising spoil from the works.

Service relocations associated with the works.

SOUTHERN TRANSPORT CORRIDOR

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SOUTHERN TRANSPORT CORRIDOR

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SEPTEMBER 11TH 2001

September 11th 2001 changed the ease of access to Ports around the world significantly. Persons entering the Port Secure Zone are now required to hold an MSIC or be escorted on site. It is a fair embuggerance to road transport operators requiring access to the Port Secure Zone.

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TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT

Some of the Port roads are public roads and therefore we need to deal with pedestrians and other vehicles being around in areas where heavy trucking

• perations can be occurring.

We need to be able to safely manage the interaction between trucking

• perations and the general public and other Port operations.

A particular concern is based around sightseers who can be in high traffic areas and don’t have their mind on the job. The Port is an interesting place with trains, ships, boats etc. all to look at and take your mind off what you should be doing. Caravanners are a particular risk.

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A CASE STUDY IN TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT

SAND BYPASSING

Sands naturally flow along Geraldton’s beaches from Southgate's and around Point Moore. Structures and other things such as weather and sea conditions can disrupt this natural flow. Sand may accumulate in some locations and may not be replenished naturally in other locations. Relocating sand from areas of build-up to areas of need (Sand bypassing) is a great benefit to the community.

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2005

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2012

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2016

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2018

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THE PROCESS

Sand is picked up from the East end of Pages Beach by front end loader and truck and relocated to the northern beaches area along Chapman Road.

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TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT – SAND BYPASSING

There are two main areas of traffic management concern.

1.The area where trucks enter and leave

Pages Peach (MWPA responsibility).

2.The area where trucks access the beaches

for sand dumping (COGG responsibility). We use a traffic management contractor to manage the interaction between trucking

• perations and vehicles etc. on Connell Road.

This area is of significant interest to tourists and the general public.

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TRUCK UNLOADER INCIDENT CASE STUDY

In late February we had a prime mover and two trailers jack knife and run through rail corridor fence at bottom of MWPA Truck Unloader ramp whilst loading cargo onto a vessel at Berth 4. Two ICAM investigations were conducted.

• 1. Overloading of the vessel.
• 2. The truck incident.

Valuable lessons were learned that have resulted in refining some of the processes we did have at the time.

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QUESTIONS

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