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Day One: Monday 7th November 2011

 
8:30am Registration and morning refreshments
9:00am Speed networking sessions

Youll get to know your peers right from the start in this relaxed and informal speed networking session. Bring your business cards!
9.20am Opening remarks from the Chair
9:30am

The intermodal freight challenge for Australia: What are the obstacles and opportunities for growth?

  • Inter-state corridors
  • Ports
  • Terminals
  • Energy prices/freight rates
  • Regulatory rationalisation
  • Congestion
  • Greenhouse gas abatement

Dr David Gargett, Senior Researcher, Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics, Department of Infrastructure and Transport
10.00am The next wave of freight productivity
  • National Ports Strategy: Moving towards implementation
  • Developing the National Freight Strategy: Next steps
  • Future directions

Paul Sullivan, Chief Strategy Officer, National Transport Commission (NTC)
10.30am Morning tea

 

Industry Keynote Session

 

11.00am Australias port intermodal challenges
  • Qubes Vision
  • Container logistics
  • Intermodal locations
  • Auto and bulk logistics
  • The next 10 years

Maurice James, Managing Director, Qube

 

Industry Keynote Session

 

11.30am The supermarket supply chain
  • Achieving improvements to service levels, end-to-end costs and working capital ratios
  • National distribution centres and warehousing facilities with control over both primary and secondary transport
  • An optimised network with flexibility to meet future business needs

Eric Willemse, Logistics Development Manager, Woolworths

 

International Keynote

 

12.00pm Canadas Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative
  • What the Gateway Initiative has achieved and directions going forward

The Hon Stockwell Day, Former President, Treasury Board and Minister for the Asia-Pacific Gateway, Government of Canada and Distinguished Fellow, Asia Pacific Foundation
12.30pm Lunch
1.30

A national interstate rail network: Update on the North-South rail corridor

  • How will these upgrades lift the performance, reliability and capacity of the rail corridor?
  • The role of technology in increasing network capacity
  • How does rail rate for intermodal traffic?
  • How competitive is rail to road transport?

Fred Affleck, Chair, Australian Freight Council Network

 

State Case Study Session

 

2.00pm Meeting the growing freight task in New South Wales

The Hon John Ajaka MLC, Parliamentary Secretary for Transport and Roads, New South Wales

Investing in transport infrastructure to pave the way for future economic development

Norm McIlfatrick, Secretary, Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources, Tasmania

A Q&A session will follow the state by state case studies, highlighting:
  • The implementation of freight projects and projects that deal with capacity constraints
  • Improving existing freight routes to export facilities
  • Freight network investment and transport corridor planning
3.30pm Afternoon tea
4.00pm Sustainable mobility: Improving the safety of road infrastructure
  • New National Road Safety Strategy
  • Funding for land transport: Reinvestment of fuel excise revenue
  • Performance based standards (PBS) vehicles
  • Investment in smart infrastructure technologies to reduce congestion and improve traffic demand management

Wendy Machin, President, NRMA
4.30pm

The Australian Freight Council Network: Harnessing industry input for better government policy


Fred Affleck, Chair, Australian Freight Council Network

 

Panel: Improving the efficiency of intermodal terminals

 

5.00pm
  • Industry priorities for productivity and growth
  • Investment
  • Pricing

Bryan Nye, CEO, Australasian Railway Association (ARA)
Richard Wood, General Manager Rail and Intermodal, Nation Building and Infrastructure Investment,
Department of Infrastructure and Transport
Lachlan Benson, Executive General Manager, Industry Relations and Logistics, Sydney Ports Corporation
Matt Rait, Market Analyst, Siemens
5.40pm Close of day one

 

AusIntermodal 2011 Dinner at The Quadrant Restaurant, Quay Grand Suites Sydney

 

7.00-11.00 Monday 7th November

The Quadrant Restaurant, Quay Grand Suites Sydney

Take the opportunity to relax and network with industry peers at this social highlight! Located in an enviable position on East Circular Quay, the Quadrant Restaurant offers magnificent
Sydney Harbour Views to compliment a refreshing cuisine of local produce. Dinner is included in your conference registration. Additional dinner tickets are available for guests
and partners wishing to attend this networking opportunity.

Day Two: Tuesday 8th November 2011

 

8.30am Morning refreshments
9:00am Opening remarks from the Chair

Richard Sykes, CEO, SCF Group

 


State Ministerial Keynote

 

9:10am Re-building Queenslands transport network: Connecting Queensland with QTRIP

The Hon Annastacia Palaszczuk, Minister for Transport and Multicultural Affairs, Queensland

 


INTERNATIONAL CASE STUDY

 

9.40am The Freight Villages experience in Europe
  • Promoting a new culture of logistics: The Hinterport Project
  • The Marco Polo financing scheme: A program implemented by the European Union to reduce road congestion, promote sustainable transport and improve the environmental
    performance of freight traffic in Europe
  • Developing the value proposition for inland terminals

Angelo Aulicino, Head, New Projects and Development Department, Interporto Bologna
10.30am Morning tea

 

Panel

 

10.40am Coastal shipping and national shipping policy reform
  • Impact of Australias proposed coastal shipping regulations on exporters, shippers and workers

Llew Russell, CEO, Shipping Australia
Ben Horner Manager, Industry Operations and Environment, Australian Shipowners Association
Paddy Crumlin, National Secretary, The Maritime Union
Fritz Heinzmann, Senior Legal Advisor, Projects, Schenker Australia
11.20am Implementing intermodal freight hubs in Melbourne
  • Inland Ports at Altona and Lyndhurst
  • The logistics of reducing queues and congestion at the Port of Melbourne
  • Initiatives to reduce costs across the supply chain

Luke Duffy, General Manager, Westgate Ports

 

Interactive panel: The climate of change

 

11.50am What will a carbon tax mean for the Australian transport and logistics sector?
  • Transport costs and third party operators
  • How should transport services in Australia be charged to contribute to economic efficiency?
  • Fuel prices and alternates technologies

This interactive panel discussion will provide speakers and the audience an opportunity to discuss the emerging implications of the carbon tax in Australia.

Facilitated by: Mark McKenzie, Managing Director, Rare Consulting
12.30pm Lunch
1.20pm


GS1: Using Global Standards to interconnect the information supply chain.

  • Driving visibility across a multi-modal supply chain
  • Adopting a common language that enables interoperability between disparate computer systems
  • Working with standards to improve productivity and enhance customer value.

Bonnie Ryan, Industry Manager, GS1 Australia

 

 

NEW ZEALAND CASE STUDIES

 

Supply chain case study

1.40pm Kotahi: Freight partnership to drive New Zealand competitiveness
  • Managing freight demand across industries
  • Establishing cooperation with others to drive more efficient shipping, road, rail, intermodal terminal and port usage
  • Working with exporters to drive greater efficiency and service enhancements

Chris Greenough, CEO, Kotahi Limited, New Zealand
2.10pm Container handling at LPC
  • Transport, capacity & planning in post-earthquake environment
  • Cruise berth development

Peter McDonald, Operations, Container Terminal, Lyttelton Port of Christchurch New Zealand
2.40pm Next Generation Project
  • Preparing for the next generation of freight growth
  • Working with stakeholders to promote the benefits of increased port capacity

Lincoln Coe, General Manager Infrastructure, Port Otago New Zealand
3.10pm Afternoon tea
3.30pm

The benefits to freight from holistic infrastructure research and planning

  • Why integrated infrastructure research and education is a game changer for industry and government
  • Generating an understanding of the infrastructure system and its interconnections and interdependencies
  • Role of simulation and modelling to enhance decision making for infrastructure evaluation and prioritisation

Andrew McCusker, Director Rail Logistics, SMART Infrastructure Facility, University of Wollongong
4.00pm Time to deliver: Optimising freight transport
  • New science-based approaches to optimise long haul transport operations
  • Enhancing productivity and cost-effectiveness in all manner of supply chain systems
  • Spotlight on the Hunter Valley Coal Chain

Dr Simon Dunstall, Senior Member, CSIRO Services
4.30pm People management and negotiating the new IR laws
  • Impact of industrial action on exporters, importers, transport operators
  • Contingency plans

Paul Houlihan, Director, First IR
5.00pm Close of conference
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