Waterline No 35—October 2003
Readers may be aware that we have been reviewing the indicators used in Waterline.
- Waterline No 35
Waterline No 36—March 2004
The BTRE has made significant progress towards developing the new schedule reliability indicator. However, the initial test results raise questions about the reliability of schedule data as well as the reliability of ship arrivals/departures, and will require further investigation.
- Waterline No 36
Waterline No 37—September 2004
July 2004 marks the 10th anniversary of Waterline. This issue contains a special feature on the changing face of the waterfront from 1993 to 2004 as reported in the pages of Waterline.
- Waterline No 37
Waterline No 38—March 2005
This issue contains an article on Australian International Shipping. It summarises Australia's maritime trade 2002–2003, including cargo movements, main trading partners as well as major port activity with the main focus on international trade.
- Waterline No 38
Waterline No 39—September 2005
This issue contains an article on Trends in Australian International Sea Trade. It examines Australia's maritime trade 1994–1995 to 2004–2005, including commodity exports and imports, trade regions and port activity.
- Waterline No 39
Waterline No 40—May 2006
This issue contains two articles, one on the role of the new Maritime Security Identification Card system and the other on Australian International Shipping.
- Waterline No 40
Waterline No 41—December 2006
In addition to the usual content on wharf side indicators of productivity, Waterline 41 contains a feature article on a a set of new indicators of productivity improvements focusing on the interface between port terminals and the trucks and trains that deliver containers to and pick up containers from the terminals.
Indicators include number of trucks processed, container turnaround time, rail transported containers as percent of containers processed on the landside of terminal, and indicators on the availability and use of vehicle booking system time slots at port terminals.
The article includes preliminary estimates of the indicators. However these estimates are based on incomplete data and some, for example rail mode share, are unreliable. They are published at this stage to indicate the intended scope of the new indicators and for comment before formal reporting of the indicators starts in 2007.
- Waterline No 41
Waterline No 42—July 2007
This edition of Waterline includes an article on the Maritime Crew visa which started on 1 July 2007.
Waterline 42 also incorporates a new section which will be ongoing, in the same way as the other sections of Waterline which deal with wharf side indicators of productivity. This new section deals with landside performance indicators, which include containers per truck, average container turnaround time as well as truck turnaround time. It also includes landside of container terminal task indicators, such as total containers by road, teus by road and total trucks processed. Some charts also show total containers by rail. The new section commences with the September and December quarters 2006.
- Waterline No 42
Waterline 43—January 2008
Waterline reports on trends in container handling productivity on the waterfront in Australia as well as the cost of importing and exporting containers. It covers both the unloading of container ships and the transport of containers from container terminals.
- Waterline No 43
- Container terminal performance in containers per hour
- Container terminal performance in teus per hour
- Port performance non financial
Waterline 44—August 2008
Waterline reports on trends in container handling productivity on the waterfront in Australia as well as the cost of importing and exporting containers. It covers both the unloading of container ships and the transport of containers from container terminals.
- Waterline No 44
- Container terminal performance in containers per hour
- Container terminal performance in teus per hour
- Port performance non financial