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Global Safety Day 2016
Under the theme “Safe for you. Safe for Me.”, the APM Terminals Global Terminal Network observed its 10th annual Global Safety Day on April 28th. This year’s emphasis was on raising awareness among employees and contractors of the importance of risk management.
Safety-related presentations, workshops and activities were conducted across APM Terminals Global Terminals Network’s 72 operating port and terminal facilities, as well as Inland Services operations and offices, located in 69 countries around the world, including at the company’s global; headquarters in The Hague, The Netherlands.
Recognizing risks and putting effective controls in place to prevent harm from occurring is a key component of APM Terminals’ Safety Culture. As part of the Global Safety Day agenda, APM Terminals CEO Kim Fejfer detailed how a fatal accident in 2014 at the Suez Canal Container Terminal, in Port Said East, Egypt involving containers knocked down from stacks, led to innovations in operations, through an initiative known as Project Stack.
“The objective of project stack was to find a long-term, sustainable solution that fundamentally eliminated the risk of knockdown of containers from the stacks, while at the same time making sure we would not lose productivity” stated Mr. Fejfer.
By altering the container movements from container stacks onto trucks from “parabolic” moves to rectangular configured “box”-shaped moves, and by keeping trucks from the transfer lane area until containers have cleared the stacks, the risk of containers being knocked off of stacks through RTG movements has been reduced by 70%. While successful, the effective throughput capacity of a facility is reduced by 15-20% with these measures in place.
“The long-term solution is still being pursued in a pilot project at one of our facilities, with the finalized project expected to roll-out in three years, at a cost of USD $40 million”, added Fejfer.
Earlier this year, The Aqaba Container Terminal (ACT), the Kingdom of Jordan’s primary port, was named the winner of the Workplace Safety and Health Award by the Jordanian Social Security Corporation, and APM Terminals Los Angeles Pier 400, and APM Terminals Tacoma received top industry safety honors for 2016 at the respective Pacific Maritime Association’s (PMA) annual Safety Awards. APM Terminals Buenos Aires, operator of the Terminal 4 facility in Argentina’s primary port, was named winner of the first annual “Innovation in Safety Award”, bestowed by ICHCA International, an independent organization dedicated to improving the safety, productivity and efficiency of cargo handling and transportation, at the annual ICHCA conference.
Safety-related presentations, workshops and activities were conducted across APM Terminals Global Terminals Network’s 72 operating port and terminal facilities, as well as Inland Services operations and offices, located in 69 countries around the world, including at the company’s global; headquarters in The Hague, The Netherlands.
Recognizing risks and putting effective controls in place to prevent harm from occurring is a key component of APM Terminals’ Safety Culture. As part of the Global Safety Day agenda, APM Terminals CEO Kim Fejfer detailed how a fatal accident in 2014 at the Suez Canal Container Terminal, in Port Said East, Egypt involving containers knocked down from stacks, led to innovations in operations, through an initiative known as Project Stack.
“The objective of project stack was to find a long-term, sustainable solution that fundamentally eliminated the risk of knockdown of containers from the stacks, while at the same time making sure we would not lose productivity” stated Mr. Fejfer.
By altering the container movements from container stacks onto trucks from “parabolic” moves to rectangular configured “box”-shaped moves, and by keeping trucks from the transfer lane area until containers have cleared the stacks, the risk of containers being knocked off of stacks through RTG movements has been reduced by 70%. While successful, the effective throughput capacity of a facility is reduced by 15-20% with these measures in place.
“The long-term solution is still being pursued in a pilot project at one of our facilities, with the finalized project expected to roll-out in three years, at a cost of USD $40 million”, added Fejfer.
Earlier this year, The Aqaba Container Terminal (ACT), the Kingdom of Jordan’s primary port, was named the winner of the Workplace Safety and Health Award by the Jordanian Social Security Corporation, and APM Terminals Los Angeles Pier 400, and APM Terminals Tacoma received top industry safety honors for 2016 at the respective Pacific Maritime Association’s (PMA) annual Safety Awards. APM Terminals Buenos Aires, operator of the Terminal 4 facility in Argentina’s primary port, was named winner of the first annual “Innovation in Safety Award”, bestowed by ICHCA International, an independent organization dedicated to improving the safety, productivity and efficiency of cargo handling and transportation, at the annual ICHCA conference.