ABA is committed to fair access to its bulk grain facilities at the Port of Melbourne, Melbourne Port Terminal (MPT), to all grain exporters.
ABA’s objective is to assist its export customers minimise supply chain costs from farm gate to ship’s rail.
With 48,000 mt of vertical storage MPT has been designed and is operated as a rapid export throughput facility. Together with integrated intake logistics it can rapidly accumulate export cargoes and load vessels.
Essential to efficient and effective ship loading operations is co-operation between ABA, the intake logistics provider and the customer. ABA works closely with its customers and rail/road operators to accumulate intended cargo at MPT in a timely manner so that vessel loading can be conducted as effectively and efficiently as possible.
It is our intention to minimise vessel loading times while maximising MPT’s annual throughput tonnage. We firmly believe that a cargo can be accumulated then loaded onto a vessel within two weeks and with the vessel being berthed for no more than 4 days.
The following Cargo Accumulation and Berthing Priority Guidelines have been designed to inform our export customers how we will work with them to minimise vessel loading times. These Guidelines will be applied to all export loading operations for all customers. However, from time to time in the interests of operational efficiency ABA may at its own discretion vary from these Guidelines.