PORT WARATAH COAL SERVICES - Edition Two 2019
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PORT WARATAH Edition Two 2019 COAL SERVICES
through to the major outage of 4.11 Carrington Public school for a visit of our
reclaimer, including the installation of a Carrington Terminal and our support of
new gearbox and trailing cable. The film Harry’s Challenge a fun run or paddle
crew immersed themselves in the job at Stockton against the backdrop of our
filming day and night, in sunshine or in beautiful working harbour.
rain, developing a comradery with the
The working harbour is a global gateway,
workgroups and hung out with them on
with our two terminals servicing vessels
breaks, stretched along with them at
bound for diverse port destinations
pre-start meetings and enjoyed the light-
around the globe, demonstrating our
hearted banter that ensued.
“global reach.” Market conditions for
Our tour programme, like participating in Hunter Valley coal remain strong, with
TV shows, is another way we provide an favourable prices continuing for Hunter
opportunity for people to come behind Valley producers.
the gate to experience a typical day at
Pride in our business not only flows
Port Waratah. Many of our visitors are
Welcome to the industry delegations with customers
from the services we provide to our
customers and the role we play in the
Port Waratah from Asia, however forty percent of our
community visitors are tourists. If you
coal chain but also from our relationships
with the community in which we
Coal Services are curious about our role in the coal
chain or have a desire to see our “mega
are hosted.
Community machines” up close after watching Mega
Mechanics, I encourage you to book a
I encourage you to share your feedback
with us by getting in touch directly
Newsletter tour and see our operations first hand. or through the Local Voices pulse
surveys undertaken every six months
At the end of March, we published
in partnership with CSIRO.
As summer fades and we enjoy the our 2018 Sustainable Development
cooler nights that autumn brings, I Report, with the theme of “Local Heart.
welcome you to the second edition of Global Reach.” As with the last two Kind regards
our community newsletter for 2019. reports, Port Waratah has prepared
As you read this newsletter you will its 2018 report in accordance with the
notice a theme of sharing who we are Global Reporting Initiative’s Standards.
and what we do, and thanks to Mega We measure ourselves against these
Hennie du Plooy
Mechanics, we can do so with a global internationally recognised sustainability
audience. Having aired around the world standards to give local stakeholders
and more recently on Channel 10 Bold comfort that our operations are
here at home, I’m incredibly proud of managed to world class standards
the Kooragang Maintenance team who and we transparently report on our
represented Port Waratah with such performance. You can find a copy of
professionalism, pride and passion for the report on our website.
their work. The show captures the Our “Local Heart” is evident in the pages
complex nature of maintenance activities of this newsletter with stories about the
undertaken at Kooragang. From day latest clean up effort in the mangroves
to day idler changes to an emergency of Throsby Creek on Elizabeth St
generator changeover on 7.10 shiploader, in Carrington, hosting children from
Local Heart. Global Reach.
Newcastle and the Hunter Region is one of the best places in the world to work, live and bring up a family.
So it’s no surprise that our heart lies here.
We continue to invest $750,000 per year in our local community and are very proud to support a number of local
charities, community organisations and initiatives.Visit our Storylines website to read more about our community
partnerships at storylines.pwcs.com.au
This year we also mapped our Community Investment and Partnership Programme against the UN Sustainable
Development Goals, demonstrating the positive indirect impact we make towards the achievement of global goals.
Our support helps improve quality
of learning environments, increase
access to teacher training opportunities,
and promote sustainable development
themes in schools.
Our support helps promote social inclusion and
appreciation of cultural diversity, encourage
healthy lifestyles and empower women.
DIVERSITY EDUCATION
ECONOMIC
HEALTH Our support helps promote local sustainable
Our support helps development through access to microfinance
improve the quality of and support for research and entrepreneurship.
healthcare, promote
mental health and wellbeing,
and support research
and development.
ENVIRONMENT
COMMUNITY
Our support helps safeguard environmental heritage,
Our support helps strengthen and safeguard
remediate degradation, and manage and protect ecosystems.
cultural heritage, promote inclusion for all,
and provide better access to safe public spaces.
The War On Waste
Continues At St Peter’s
Primary School
Port Waratah have happily provided environmentally
friendly reusable lunch bags to the students at St Peter’s
Primary School, Stockton.The lunch bags are part of the
school’s commitment to reduce waste as they replace the
need for paper/plastic lunch bags when ordering from the
school canteen. Great initiative!
Harry’s Challenge
Harry’s House provides a retreat for families that have a child
living with cancer or families that are grieving the loss of their
child to cancer. The Harry Meyn Foundation was formed when
Harry Meyn faced his own cancer battle. Harry sadly passed away
from brain cancer at age seven and his family were determined to
help others. Sam and David Meyn saw the need for a retreat to
help families facing the same dilemma.
In support of Harry’s House, this year’s Harry’s Challenge
event took place at Stockton on Sunday 24 March 2019. The
event provided 190 locals and visitors with an opportunity
to participate in a 5km paddle or 5km family fun run, whilst
supporting a fantastic cause. Port Waratah were very proud to
once again be the major sponsor of this year’s event, which this
year raised over $10,000.
Throsby Creek Clean Up Day
Port Waratah employees and interested community members once again rolled up their sleeves to make a difference in our local area.
Throsby Creek
Over 45 employees were joined by community members on 27 March to clean up the Throsby Creek mangrove area at Carrington.
On the day, approximately 50 bags of rubbish were collected from the area equating to approximately 215kg of waste.
Clean Up Day
Some of the more unique items the team collected included a metal bollard, an office desk, a street sign (still attached to the pole)
and a mountain bike, in relatively good condition!
215kg
50 Material
Bags
(APROX) Collected
High volume items in a
Port Waratah Carrington employees Marty Corrigan and Simon Friend.
‘representative sample’ bag included:
379x
SOFT
139x
STRAWS,
PLASTIC CUTLERY
ITEMS
94x
HARD/
80x
PLASTIC
Group safety briefing prior to commencing the clean up.
SOLID BOTTLE
PLASTIC TOPS & LIDS
30x
BROKEN
30x
POLYSTYRENE
GLASS/ FOAM
CERAMIC
A community member observing the rubbish collected.
Port Waratah’s Billy Peden
On Radio 2GB Visit Port Waratah!
Have you ever wanted to see our
operations up close?
For many years, Port Waratah has welcomed visits
from interested members of the public, social clubs,
schools, educational groups, industry delegations and
our customers. Tours are conducted at our Kooragang
Terminal and include a presentation followed by a site
tour, where you will go to the rail recieval to see the
trains arriving, get up close with the stackers and
reclaimers in the stockyard and finish up by heading down
to the wharf to watch coal being loaded onto the vessels.
Former Newcastle Knights player Mark Sargent, Radio 2GB’s Chris Smith and Our Tour Guides, Rod, Brian and Trevor, are dedicated
Billy Peden at Myuna coal mine.
personnel and all three are former long term employees
Port Waratah employee and Newcastle Knights legend, Billy of Port Waratah. In total, they have 99 years of combined
Peden, recently made a guest appearance on The Chris Smith experience and knowledge, ensuring our visitors are well
Show on Radio 2GB. The show was broadcast nationally from informed about our operations.
Centennial Coal’s Myuna underground coal mine located in
Positive comments from our visitors is frequent and this
Wangi Wangi, NSW.
feedback is great to receive. We learn that not only are
people amazed at the size of our operations and machines,
they are especially impressed with the cleanliness of the
Carrington Public site and our commitment to the environment.
Spread the word about our site tours, we’re happy to
School Visit showcase our operations and welcome visitors to our
site – it’s who we are.
To learn more or book a tour for your social
group, school or the family, visit pwcs.com.au/
community-environment/site-tours and
its free!
On 19 March, our Carrington Terminal had a visit from students
and teachers from Carrington Public School. The children had a
great time being shown around our operations by a few of our
employees and enjoyed a sausage sizzle and some Port Waratah Tour guides Rod Dove, Brian McMahon and Trevor Simmons
show bags to wrap up the day.
Port Waratah Feature In Mega-Mechanics
The Mega-Mechanics television program, aired in Australia
on Channel 10 BOLD during March and April 2019.
Five of the six episodes featured maintenance tasks We would like to first say how
being undertaken at our Kooragang Terminal. The film
crew attended our site over a number of weeks to film impressed we were with your tremendously
our maintenance tasks during early 2018. The result way it operates so efficientlycompany and the
observed how it was not necess . My husband
was a documentary style program offering the audience
a chance to take a peek behind our fence, and see some
of the work that our Mega-Mechanics perform on our bleep out foul language. Your ary for the show to
to be very polite, cordial and reemployees appear
heavy metal marvels!
During the screening of the programs, we were delighted
to receive a note from some Canadian residents who other. What an extremely effic spectful of each
had been watching our Mega-Mechanic episodes on the
Discovery Science Channel. working atmosphere you have crient and positive
extremely productive company eated within your
in charge. ! Credos to those
If we didn t live so far away
we would have loved to have seein Ontario, Canada
in person. Just passing on so n your operatio n
and wishing you co ntinued su me observatio ns
amazing field. ccess in this
Delphine & Mike Brunet
L-R Will Hammond, Dan Wilk and Darren Westwood. Mega-Mechanics behind the scenes.
Inset bottom left,Tyson Teong.
2018 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT STATISTICS
40,000
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COMMUNITY
ENQUIRIES 188
COMMUNITY
NEWSLETTERS
383
NOISE DUST OTHER
TOURS
75% Industry
25% Community
1,606 4
VISITORS COMMUNITY
54% Industry
46% Community MEETINGS PER YEAR
Cover Page: Port Waratah employees and
community members cleaning up Throsby Creek.
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