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Vostochnaya Stevedoring Company (VSC LLC), LLC and Dalnevostochnnoy Railroad Company are Improving their Planning Processes
Vostochnaya Stevedoring Company (VSC LLC), LLC and Dalnevostochnoy Railroad Company (DRC) have begun a process of everyday planning in order to handle their container traffic. At a work conference, presided over by Alexei Gladinin Acting Head of DRC and John Scourtis VSC Chief Executive Officer, the decision to carry out daily coordinated planning of processes for the timely delivery of loads by handling and loading containers was taken.
The station will grant the Stevedore live data concerning the number of cars and also about the nearest approaching loads. In turn, the loaders will have to inform the railway workers of the number of containers and of the last ones that have cleared customs and are ready to be loaded at the company’s loading site. Everyday at 4 pm the station and the loaders will sum up the day’s work.
The improvement in this procedure was brought on by the marked increase in the region’s container traffic and by the necessity to organize the accumulation of cargo at the Nakhodka Vostochnaya Station and ensure its timely delivery to DRC’s terminal. Currently, a forwarding agent decides if a container is ready to be loaded or released from the terminal, not the loaders or the railway workers. The forwarder provides the entire documentation, which allows the container to be loaded and released from the port. On the other hand, there are about 30 rolling stock owners operating at VSK terminal that strive to pass their competitors and increase their volume of empty containers at the Nakhodka Vostochnaya Station before the DRC’s clients provide the cargo. Consequently, the owner’s vacant platforms accumulate at the station, filling up its tracks, and complicating traffic.
To resolve this situation loaders and railway workers are working to implement effective logistical processes, which allow them to optimize cargo handling. Therefore, the loaders will have to improve the quality of their work by lessening the number of container operations: bringing to a minimum unproductive container transfers on the terminal’s territory from production to the loading site. The DRC containers’ handling is done at two mutually independent loading sites (the first, with a capacity of 75 conventional gondola cars and is comprised of 5-6 moorings; the second, with a capacity of 100 conventional gondola cars, laid out in 7-8 moorings). The loading parties, for containers awaiting departure, form up in accordance with the direction of a direct railway site. With the observance of the new procedure each delivery car must correspond to the containers’ assigned direction. In other words, it is set up on the DRC’s corresponding railway site.
“The dynamics of the growth in the region’s container traffic demand effort on the part of both loaders and railway workers in order to change the form of work to which they are accustomed. Through planning we will have to coordinate our work more strictly and scrupulously monitor loads and cars,” declared Aleksandr Ignatenko member of the DRC’s board of directors. “In our operating procedure we have to keep track of each container’s readiness for departure while the railway workers attempt to set up for loading a particular rolling stock of a particular owner to a particular loading site. Nevertheless, we understand that it is already necessary to organize the cargo of private operators at the station-port’s junction in order to allow loaders and railway workers to handle cargo in accordance with growing demand.”
Meanwhile, the process’s participants must provide for the timely marking and handling of cargo and the loading of containers according to the operational structure and the confirmed daily plan. Therefore, the plan for March is fixed at a volume of 6,200 cars at a daily average load of 200 cars. During 29 days in March, DRC’s container terminal shipped 6,335 cars with a daily loading average of 218 cars. Moreover March 28th set the production record – a daily average loading of 382 cars.
31.03.08