Annual Awards for Excellence 2014 Recognising world class achievements in Transport and Logistics
Congratulations to our 2014 Award Winners Our best transport and logistics people are world's best. The CILT Australia Annual Awards for Excellence 2014 celebrate the accomplishments of some of the finest passenger, freight and defence transport and logistics companies and individuals in the world. This is not just a matter of self promotion, but an important standard setter for transport and logistics in Australia. And a benchmark internationally. CILTA would like to thank all organisations and individuals that nominated for the 2014 Annual Awards and are pleased to present to you our winners and finalists in the following categories:
Safety Passenger Transport Humanitarian or Defence Transport and/or Logistics Operational Excellence Professional of the Year Young Professional of the Year
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Annual Awards for Excellence 2014 Safety
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This award recognises an organisation that has demonstrated a practical and exceptional commitment to excellence in safety in Australian Passenger, Freight and Defence Transport or Logistics. WINNER Transit Australia Group
Transit Australia Group Pty Ltd (“TAG”) is an Australian owned business based on the Gold Coast, Queensland. Within that TAG group is Surfside Buslines Pty Ltd operating throughout the Gold Coast and northern NSW, and Transit Australia Pty Ltd operating on the Sunshine Coast, Rockhampton, Townsville, Cairns and Magnetic Island. TAG operates 650 vehicles using 1400 staff and delivers 30,000 services a week made up of over 30,000,000 service kilometres annually. TAG prioritises the safety of its customers, especially children, above all else and is proud of the outcomes that the ‘Bus It Safe’ program has delivered.
FINALISTS Mack Trucks Mack Trucks has been improving safety within the Australian trucking industry thanks to its Roll Stability Advantage (RSA) technology. The RSA system helps to protect truck drivers by using information from a series sensor to respond to potentially hazardous situations. The stability feature aims to prevent rollovers by automatically applying the brakes if a truck makes a sharp turn, changes lanes suddenly or is faced with obstacles on the road. This technology has significantly improved the safety of concrete agitators, which have an increased chance of rolling over compared to similar-sized trucks, due to their dynamic loads and high centre of gravity. RSA is now a standard specification in all new concrete trucks. Since this introduction there has been a significant reduction in truck related accidents, such as trucks tipping and collisions. Toll Energy Welshpool WA Toll Energy provide leading logistics solutions for the Oil and Gas Industry, amongst some of our customers Chevron , Apach Energy and Santos are provided with a level of safety and service that is at the leading edge within the transport industry. Recently awarded the Chevron Service Excellence award for safety and internally the Toll Global Safety Award across all sites worldwide within the Toll Group shows our ongoing commitment to safety for both customers and employees.
Annual Awards for Excellence 2014 Toll Mining Services – West Toll Mining Services – West has recently won the WA State Award and the Trucksafe National Award for Training Excellence for its safety initiative. This aims to improve the safety of drivers experiencing the harshest road conditions in Australia by providing the best equipment and training. The new fleet upgrade will have; EBS and ABS systems, speed limited to 90Kph, MT Data and Driver State Sensor (DSS). Combining state- of – the –art technologies in this unique way across the fleet and upskilling drivers to use it effectively will reduce risks and save lives on the road. Transdev Australasia Five years ago, Transdev Australasia embarked on an ambitious plan to revolutionise safety within its business. Transdev culminated its efforts to improve safety performance across its business with an annual safety campaign – Safety Starts With Me – that crowned its five-year strategy to cement a strong safety culture within its operations and, as a result, aided in the achievement of significant gains in safety performance for the year.
Transport for NSW Transport for NSW’s (TfNSW) Safety Town is Australia’s first curriculum-based road safety education website covering road safety issues for students aged 10-12. The resource has been developed specifically for students in Years 5 and 6 and addresses behavioural issues such as distraction, risk-taking and decision-making in relation to pedestrian safety, car and bus passenger safety and safety on wheels. Safety Town content meets both the relevant NSW and Australian Syllabus Outcomes. The website can be accessed in the classroom or at home to help teachers and families to reinforce road safety messages to children at a time and place that suits them. Safety Town was launched in March this year.
Annual Awards for Excellence 2014 Passenger Transport The award recognises an organisation that shows outstanding achievement in the transport of passengers by road, rail, water or air. WINNER City of Gold Coast Free Seniors Travel initiative. The initiative allows eligible Gold Coast seniors to travel for free on Gold Coast buses from 8:30 am to 3:30 pm, Monday to Friday including public holidays. Not only does this trial make better use of existing bus services that normally have low patronage but it improves the quality of life for many Gold Coast seniors. The positive testimonials from customers reflect an improved quality of life now that they have a more affordable, easy to use travel option.
Annual Awards for Excellence 2014 Humanitarian or Defence Transport and/or Logistics This award recognises an organisation that has demonstrated a significant supply chain achievement in a Humanitarian or Defence Project. The project can be carried out overseas but must be designed and implemented by an Australian Organisation/Team. WINNER Asixa Asixa is Victoria’s premier rural and regional distribution specialist, offering a one-stop-shop for overnight distribution. Since 2008, Asixa has supported the Victorian Government’s Charity Freight Service – a distribution pool for major charity groups to support people in need all over the state. By pursuing the mantra of ‘continuous improvement’, Asixa has managed the service’s transition to an integrated, efficient and safe system of moving goods statewide. This best practice in supply chain management has doubled the purchasing power of each charity dollar. Service users circulate more goods around Victoria than ever before – without a corresponding increase in their annual spend. FINALIST Department of Defence - Redeployment Fusion Cell The Australian Defence Force (ADF) conducted the redeployment of the majority of its forces from Afghanistan during the period January 2012 to December 2013. This complex logistics activity commenced with detailed planning, prior to execution of the physical relocation of equipment and personnel. The focal point for the extraction was the Redeployment Fusion Cell, which led the Defence effort to return more than 1,700 personnel, over 250 vehicles and almost four million inventory items and equipment to Australia. In nominating the Redeployment Fusion Cell’s efforts as highly commendable, it is acknowledged that many other organisations, both deployed and in Australia, were critical to achieving the final outcome.
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Cargo specialists prepare to drive a newly arrived Kalmar container carrier off the airfield at Multi National Base - Tarin Kot, Uruzgan, Afghanistan
Annual Awards for Excellence 2014 Operational Excellence
Sponsored by NetSuite
This award recognises an organisation that has demonstrated outstanding achievements through significant and sustained operational excellence. WINNER Main Roads WA MMIS MMIS is a system solution including a desk top application and a field, in car-mounted, touch screen application, developed and implemented by Main Roads WA. The system is used by over 300 people including maintenance coordinators, maintenance and asset managers, and maintenance/crew people responsible for maintenance inspections and maintenance delivery. The system has considerably improved the logistics of maintenance activities by integrating asset inventory information, with asset condition, severity and extent, that allows planning of inspections and work orders and prioritisation of treatments, all within a spatially referenced platform. MMIS has been in use for over a year and has already resulted in significant improvements to the work practices, increased efficiency and consistency in recording road defects, better prioritisation of the road network needs and improved value for money. FINALISTS BioPak Environmentally friendly packaging solutions company BioPak deployed NetSuite OneWorld business management cloud software to support the business’ rapid growth. BioPak has also used NetSuite SuiteCloud development tools to make transportation and logistics of its products a more efficient process for the business and its customers, by automating many key manual tasks, such as selecting the right shipper, calculating the correct cost and subsidising or on-charging the relevant portion of shipping to the customer. It has further used NetSuite to alert and prevent errors occurring in its supply chain, saving costs and improving customer service. Chain of Responsibility Australia Chain of Responsibility Australia delivers Training Excellence to its clients nationally. It is recognised as the premium provider in Logistics and Transport Training in Australia and has been awarded title as the Provider of Choice for the CSG Industry in Australia. Our programs are award winning and offers Clients not only the best in Training and Education but a Full Compliance System to meet their important Chain of Responsibility requirements under the National Heavy Vehicle Laws in Australia.
Annual Awards for Excellence 2014 Professional of the Year
Sponsored by Mack Trucks
This award recognises an individual who has made an exceptional contribution to Australian Passenger, Freight and Defence Transport or Logistics. WINNER John Duffy John Duffy is a tour coach captain, driver trainer /assessor, passenger transport industry consultant and road safety advocate. Experienced25 years, with several qualifications, he has driven in nearly every type of Australia Bus environment. His passion is to restore the pride and professionalism of the Australian bus and coach industry (from the perspective of the driver and operator) To achieve this, he is addressing driver support (facebook and mentoring), training (including publishing the “Australian Bus and Coach Drivers Guide”) and road safety.
FINALIST Justin DiGiulio Justin Di Giulio is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport Australia (FCILT) and is a Project Manager/Fleet and Infrastructure Planner with Public Transport Victoria (PTV). Justin has worked in the transport, planning, infrastructure and financial industries for the past eighteen years with the majority of this time spent in transport environments. His experience spans across the nation, with his most recent role being within Public Transport Victoria. Justin’s experience focuses on developing transport projects in complex transport environments. Justin is a passionate transport advocate and aspires to improve transport for the benefit of the community.
Annual Awards for Excellence 2014 Young Professional of the Year
Sponsored by APS Group
This award recognises the significant achievements and contribution of a young professional to both their organisation and the transport and logistics industry. WINNER Dr Ryan Falconer Ryan is an Associate and Transport Planner committed to the resilient cities agenda. He is a change agent specialising in government and private sector-led urban renewal projects. He is also a business leader at Arup, responsible recently for codevelopment of the firm’s global transport strategy, and as client manager for LandCorp and the education sector portfolio WA. Ryan peer-reviewed the WHO’s Health Co-Benefits of Climate Change Mitigation Report and UN-Habitat’s Global Report on Human Settlements (Transport). He has published a book, technical papers and chapters in peer-reviewed media. He has been recipient of national awards from AITPM and Consult Australia, and is an active mentor of junior staff. HIGHLY COMMENDED Aaron Hargraves Aaron Hargraves is a Graduate Engineer of Parsons Brinckerhoff in the Sydney Rail team. Aaron is passionate about the transportation industry as demonstrated through his work and studies. His thesis on string transport systems received numerous awards and was the catalyst for his appointment to the ITEANZ Executive Board. Aaron also serves on the Parsons Brinckerhoff Professional Growth Network Committee. In his time at Parsons Brinckerhoff, Aaron has worked on numerous high profile projects combing his leadership, team working and technical skills for successful delivery including being awarded the North West Rail Link (NWRL) ‘Golden Ticket’; an employee of the month scheme, for his demonstration of NWRL values. FINALISTS Kieran Boyce Since joining eStore Logistics two and a half years ago Kieran has grown to become an outstanding leader who effectively manages operations for client contracts worth several millions of dollars per year. In his role as Operations Manager, Kieran has initiated and coordinated many cost saving and efficiency increasing projects. He applied his IT expertise to identify potential improvements with work creation in the recently deployed WMS. This project has seen a dramatic increase in picking efficiency by enabling synchronous work completion. The project also delivered a direct cost saving with a reduction in required equipment during peak volume period.
Annual Awards for Excellence 2014 Tim DeMunk At age 21, Tim De Munk has achieved the goal of being the youngest employee to be promoted to the position of Operations Manager within DGL (Aust) Pty Ltd. It is with great pleasure that I would like to recommend Tim for the CILTA Young Professional of the Year award. Tim has proven to be an excellent manager and an asset to our business. Leading a team of staff, Tim is held in high regard for his management skills and continual commitment in leading the team to a high level of productivity. In many ways exceeding the challenging requirements and expectations for the award, Tim's ambition, intelligence and accomplishments complement precisely the stellar community of past recipients and make him highly deserving of the honour and opportunity bestowed by the CILTA Young Professional of the Year award. Goran Miljanic Goran is Group Shipping Manager at Visy Industries, the largest containerised freight shipper in Australia. Goran is accountable for total portfolio of $67m p.a, representing entire Visy Group shipping spend. He has gained extensive experience in procurement / commercial / trade / operation roles in the shipping industry both in Australia and abroad having previously worked for the CMA-CGM group in London and Marseille, France head office. Goran has managed the development of an international distribution strategy to deliver a significant reduction in freight spend through optimised supply chain solutions. Goran has also been instrumental in establishing new revenue streams for the Visy Group, namely the UK, NZ, and USA trading business.
Jenny Ruffell Smith Jenny is a Relationship Manager with Depth Logistics, which specialises in moving heavy machinery and project cargo worldwide. She comes from a diverse professional background and has worked in the logistics industry in Australia, Mallorca, UK and British Virgin Islands. Jenny holds Bachelors and Masters degrees from Southampton Solent University and Lloyds Maritime Academy in shipping and logistics. She spends a lot of her free time promoting the shipping and logistics industry to women and young people by arranging educational and networking events. Jenny is the Vice President of Women's International Shipping and Trading Association (WISTA) in Australia and President of Young Shipping Australia Queensland (YSAQ). Jenny is passionate about continuing to grow these organizations and give people the opportunity to learn more about the industry they work in.
Annual Awards for Excellence 2014 Maria Sarubin Maria Sarubin is an Asset Manager at Main Roads Western Australia, where she has worked for seven years. She holds a Bachelor Degree Commerce and a Postgraduate Diploma in Business and Engineering Asset Management from the University of Western Australia. Maria is an insightful and pragmatic leader. She understands the importance in aligning everyday activities with strategic objectives, not only to ensure organisational success, but because effective line of sight can foster employee engagement with individuals understanding how they contribute to the bigger picture. Through leading by example Maria has gained public recognition for her leadership and professionalism, notably as the World Road Association’s Young Professional for 2011 and WA Transport & Logistics Awards’ Young Professional of the Year 2013. Ivan Vanis Ivan has been with Tasman Logistics for almost 5 years and in that period has progressed to the top of the business in his current role as General Manager - Transport & Warehousing. Ivans efforts in growing the business, building relationships with large blue chip clientele and getting the best out of his staff are second to none. I believe Ivan Vanis deserves to be rewarded for his efforts over the past 5 years as he has added value to, not only Tasman Logistics, but our client base as well. He will go the ends of the earth to find a solution that is beneficial for the client as well as the business and through this I believe that he is a prime candidate for the award of Young Professional of the Year 2014.
