The following update was penned by NSW Ports CEO Marika Calfas regarding empty container storage capacity across the Port Botany industrial precinct.
At NSW Ports, we are committed to delivering initiatives that improve port capacity, efficiency and resilience, as part of supporting sustainable port supply chains.
Expanding empty container storage capacity at Port Botany and implementing initiatives to encourage balanced two-way loading of vessels through the Empty Container Incentive Scheme (ECIS), have been our ways of assisting the flow of containers and reducing empty container storage capacity constraints.
With this in mind, I am delighted to announce that a new empty container park – to be operated by independent transport and logistics provider MEDLOG – is now under construction at Port Botany.
MEDLOG’s new facility will deliver an additional 6000 TEU of empty container storage capacity, adding about 10% extra capacity to Sydney’s empty container storage supply.
MEDLOG’s empty container park will adopt the latest technology, including paperless processing, to make truck movements safer and more productive and will feature sustainability initiatives such as rainwater harvesting and solar panels for power supply.
This is one of several measures that NSW Ports and our partners are delivering at Port Botany to enhance the capacity and productivity of the State’s supply chains.
DP World Logistics recently demolished two warehouses, on the site adjoining their container terminal, to deliver new empty container storage capacity.
ACFS Port Logistics will take similar steps to increase the capacity of its empty depot facilities at Port Botany via consolidation of the e-depot sites, removal of two warehouses and site access enhancements to improve truck flows.
Separately, planning approval has been granted by the NSW Government for increased empty container stacking heights across Port Botany, adding additional storage capacity.
Collectively, these investments will result in an increase in the amount of permanent empty container storage capacity in Sydney of more than 16,500 TEU – a 26% increase.
More broadly, our ECIS has helped reduce the build-up of empty containers and truck queues at Port Botany, by encouraging more balanced two-way vessel loading of both full and empty containers.
Together, these developments will ensure NSW Ports and our partners continue to meet the State’s growing trade needs, while delivering an efficient and sustainable service to businesses and consumers.
Please click here for more details about MEDLOG’s new empty container park, which is scheduled to open in 2023.