Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics Opens New Technical Services Centre In Australia
Global logistics provider to the vehicle industry, Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL) has opened a new Technical Services Facility in Kemblawarra, in New South Wales, 90 kms south of Sydney.
A total of $6.83M Australia dollars has been invested into the new high and heavy 42300 m² technical services near Port Kembla using a $1.23 million grant from the Australian Government's AusIndustry PKIFF fund and $5.6M from WWL.
The opening of the Kemblawarra facility from its former base in Sydney is being followed by the move of the company's port operations from Sydney to Port Kembla in October 2007.
The new facility provides a number of benefits for customers including increased site and storage capacity for vehicles, greater accessibility, faster turnaround, quicker delivery times and closer proximity to WWL's RoRo berths at Port Kembla, just 6 kms away. The new facility incorporates gantry cranes, 30 workshop bays and larger, heated paint booths.
Head of the Oceania Region for WWL, Lauritz Andersen, said: "We are very pleased to be selected of as one of just nine recipients of the AusIndustry PKIFF fund for the development of this new state-of-the-art vehicle processing centre.
"Kemblawarra offers great potential for our customers. It offers vastly improved facilities and provides for the growth of the company's logistics business in New South Wales.
"The new centre is part of our regional strategy for building a sustainable best- in-class technical services infrastructure in Australia for our customers. It will help to support our aim of providing a global integrated quality factory-to- dealer logistics service to vehicle makers."
The opening of the new Kemblawarra technical services centre follows the company's 15 per cent stake in a new $98M USD Ro-Ro terminal in the Port of Tianjin in China this summer. Designed to handle 500,000 vehicles a year, the new 296000 m² terminal incorporates two Ro-Ro berths for cars, high and heavy Ro- Ro equipment and static cargoes.
KEMBLAWARRA TECHNICAL SERVICES FACILITY - KEY FACTS
- Size of site: 42300m2
- Secured area: 42300m2
- Workshop area: 6500m2
- No of work bays: 30
- No. of paint booths: 3 heated paint booths
- Additional features: 2 x 750,000L rainwater tanks, 1 Australian Quarantine Inspection Service wash bay
WALLENIUS WILHELMSEN LOGISTICS - BACKGROUND INFORMATION
- Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL) is a global specialist in ocean, inland and outbound supply chain solutions.
- The company, which is jointly owned by Wallenius Lines of Sweden and Wilh. Wilhelmsen of Norway.
- Trade routes: Americas, Europe, Oceania and Asia,
- Fleet size: average 55 to 60 eco-friendly modern RoRo vessels in service,
- Amounts carried: 3.3 million cars and rolling equipment transported each year: 1.7 million by sea and 1.6 million inland,
- Typical loads carried: cars, trucks, buses, high and heavy agricultural and construction machinery, yachts, power generation and mining equipment,
- Employees: 3,200 worldwide.
WALLENIUS WILHELMSEN LOGISTICS - ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION
- Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics' tough environmental policy has saved the world from 75,550 tons of sulphur dioxide emissions in a six year period between 2001 and 2006 and the company's support of WWF, in their high seas programme, is having a beneficial impact in helping to protect the global maritime environment. That is the amount of SO² emitted by the city of London over a similar period.
- In June 2007, WWL gained the prestigious Thor Heyerdahl International Maritime Award for its commitment to improving the environmental standards in the shipping industry. This is the second environmental award the company has won in 2007, the first being Lloyd's List's prestigious 'Clean Seas' award for successfully reducing SO² emissions over a six year period.
SOURCE: Global logistics