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Example - Warehousing and Materials Handling Plan, Boyer, Australia
Project - Development Plan and Construction of a New
Shipping Warehouse
The client, Australian Newsprint Mills Pty Ltd., needed a warehousing and
materials handling plan for their mill at Boyer, Tasmania. Issues to the
investigated included:
 | Locating and planning a warehouse which receives paper reels from mill
production and then loads a new special type of container flat. The
container flats, UPM's, were wrapped in shrink wrap plastic to protect the
paper and facilitate handling. |
| Planning the logistics of unit trains which shuttled between the mill at
Boyer, and the port at Bernie where RORO ships took mill production to the
Australian mainland. |
| Planning the handing of: container flats (as UPM's), containers, break
bulk, and general cargoes. |
| Receiving at the mill included: empty containers, containers with general
cargo, box cars of pulp, empty container flats, box cars of general cargo,
and logs by truck and by rail. |
| Shipping from the mill included: containers of paper, and container flats
of paper. |
| Designing an automated and damage free transfer system between the mill
and the new warehouse. |
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