The Team's Board Report - Mainfreight

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Logistics Australia – Steve Noble
The new financial year has seen encouraging
results produced across all of our sites. Our
focus is to continue to grow these returns to a
minimum desired outcome of a 15% return on
revenue.
Our logistics operations for the most part start
the new financial year with a stable revenue
platform in all of the established operations,
quality increasingly reaching business
expectations and the business in a position to
achieve further rapid growth.
The key to sustaining the current growth trends
is to ensure that we continue to grow and
nurture the very best people.
Our fledgling graduate
program now numbers
seven team members, with
two additional transfers to
occur from New Zealand in
July. It is very inspiring for
all team members to see
five senior roles within our
logistics operations now
filled by graduates who have
worked their way, in the most
part, from the depot floor to
leadership roles.
Collectively these three sites add an additional
28,000sqm of warehousing; Somerton is being
specifically set up for Fast Moving Consumable
Goods (FMCG) and is the jewel of the
Melbourne operations. As with most Mainfreight
commissions we applied the “ready fire aim
approach”; to the Somerton team, thank you for
the efforts during a time of high pressure.
Noble Park, like Eagle Farm is a major
dangerous goods facility rated one of the best
sites in Melbourne. As with the Eagle Farm
operation we are now in a position to enter the
Melbourne market at the highest level. The site
is 10,000sqm, fully segregated and capable of
housing all dangerous goods commodities.
The most important lesson
learnt in the year past has
been never employ under
pressure; a short term fix will
only cause long term pain.
It is also worth noting the
progress of many of our team
members who have progressed within the
business through good succession planning
from their managers. The opportunities abound
for those who want to progress and show the
work ethic that Mainfreight live by.
The start of the new financial year has seen
the commissioning of three new facilities,
Somerton, Noble Park and Moorebank.
Snap shot inside the new dangerous goods operation Noble Park Melbourne.
Segregation bunkers armed with 100,000 litres of pressurised emergency foam
should an accident occur!!
Our new Moorebank site is a change from the
traditional sites leased in Australia; it is a brand
new facility and provides high exposure for our
brand in the Sydney market. The new facility
caters for new business opportunities arriving
in Sydney and for the stock that was formerly
housed at the Green Acre site which has now
been closed.