Australian & New Zealand Port Terminals Update
18 October 2022

Sydney
Patrick: Vessel delays around 2 days.
DP World: Average delay is 2 days for vessels that are already arriving off the berthing window.

Melbourne
Patrick: Vessel delays are around 1 day.
VICT: For week 42 commencing Monday 17 October 2022:
Berth 5 – Dedicated to the larger +300m LOA vessels. There is an approximately 24-36hr delay to vessel berthing. Week 43 VICT anticipate working vessels on arrival.
Berth 4 – Dedicated to the smaller vessels. VICT have vessels berthing and working on arrival.
DP World: 1 to 2-day average delay for vessels that are already delayed and arriving off the berthing window.

Brisbane
Patrick: Vessel delays averaging around 1day for off window vessels depending on arrival.
DP World: Vessel delays around 1 day.

Fremantle
Patrick: Terminal vessel delays of 1 to 2 days. Some vessel bunching starting to re occur.
DP World: Congestion delay is 1 to 2 days. Vessel bunching with vessels of same service delayed from origin and arriving off the berthing window.

Adelaide
Average delay is around 1 to 2 days for vessels that are already arriving off the berthing window.

New Zealand
The average vessel delay in Auckland is around 6 days due to congestion and vessel
bunching. Auckland terminal utilisation as of 12 October 2022 is at 84%.
POAL Container Terminal demand remains back-to-back. Movement of containers on and off port are flowing well. Some shipping networks however are not experiencing the delays offshore that they have had in recent months, thereby now having to wait longer to get to the berth in Auckland.
As a reminder to customers monitoring vessel arrivals, please also refer to the Longterm Berth Plan that we also send each week with this Advisory. This gives POAL best estimate of when a vessel is due to work at the Container Terminal (berthing and sailing dates).
POAL do not manage vessels onto the berth in the order of their arrival but are managing to a sequence of services to ensure all services are handled optimally. This ensures that those services without fixed windows, regardless of being a short or long transit service to Auckland, get a fair number of calls per month as we are not yet at a level of capacity throughput where we can handle all services on a weekly frequency.
Container/Bulk berths are currently operating at 60% utilisation. This is expected to increase over the next week to over 100% due to record inbound volumes to the terminal. ETBs for
incoming vessels ops are being planned with caution and terminal capacity heavily reliant on transporter deliveries being conducted promptly.
PCC terminal facilities and the Car Handling Facility volumes are currently at 60% of terminal capacity. This is expected to increase to 100% this coming week and remain at 100% for the month of October 2022 with several vessels at anchor prior to berthing. POAL will be reliant on transport operators to remove cargo from the terminal within the allocated dwell time.
Congestion continues with large container and breakbulk volumes and MC will remain under pressure. POAL are encouraging transport operators to continue to liaise with the shipping lines on receivals and operating hours.
POAL/MC Ops team request all efforts for key stakeholders to resource for the swift delivery of cargo within its permitted free time. Extensions for free time and any additional storage will not be considered.
Lyttleton incurring average waiting time of 1 to 2 days. Tauranga continues to see terminal congestion, vessel bunching and average delays of 2 days. Tauranga terminal utilisation remains extremely high at 118%.
Carriers continue vessel schedule adjustments to safeguard schedule reliability.