The Team's Board Report - Mainfreight
The Team's Board Report - Mainfreight
The Team's Board Report - Mainfreight
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Aviation Technology Industry<br />
“Logistics Provider of the Year<br />
Award”. We were up against major<br />
competition including the multinationals<br />
for the award.<br />
Ongoing training and education is a<br />
key part of the <strong>Mainfreight</strong> business<br />
and one of the courses in<br />
International is our four-day<br />
International Trade Course, which<br />
continues to go from strength to<br />
strength. Being able to have team<br />
members meet in Melbourne at the<br />
Training Centre and as part of the<br />
course visiting key facilities such as<br />
perishable, port facilities, freighter<br />
aircraft etc and listen to senior<br />
team members speak, as well as<br />
industry participants such as<br />
Customs and Quarantine is<br />
excellent.<br />
Outward Bound – Travis Dellar<br />
I was recently one of the lucky few<br />
selected by <strong>Mainfreight</strong> to attend<br />
an Outward Bound program in<br />
New Zealand. Outward Bound’s<br />
programme takes people outside<br />
their comfort zone, require people<br />
to be courageous and to consider<br />
unusual situations and make<br />
decisions. Personally for me to be<br />
able to experience the programme<br />
with a diverse group of <strong>Mainfreight</strong><br />
team members from New Zealand,<br />
Australia, Asia and the USA was<br />
one that has left me with a<br />
completely different outlook on life.<br />
Team at the International Trade Course held in May 2011<br />
<strong>The</strong> continuing experience and<br />
training provided to our team is<br />
critical. One of those experiences is<br />
the Outward Bound experience that<br />
Without giving too much away for<br />
those of the <strong>Mainfreight</strong> Team that<br />
may get to experience Outward<br />
Bound (part of the experience is<br />
not knowing what is next) there<br />
were a number of activities over an<br />
eight-day period that pushed our<br />
team both mentally and physically<br />
to a level that most of us had not<br />
been before.<br />
Every Team member from my group<br />
was privileged to have been able to<br />
take away many team-oriented and<br />
self-guided learning experiences<br />
and apply them in our daily work<br />
many of our team have been<br />
involved in. Below is a brief<br />
account of Travis Dellar’s<br />
experience.<br />
and home lives. <strong>The</strong> experience of<br />
Outward Bound was not only about<br />
learning physical, emotional and<br />
mental pressure but also just a<br />
great time with other <strong>Mainfreight</strong><br />
team members that in one week<br />
became great mates. From tears<br />
to laughter our team experienced<br />
nearly every emotion possible but<br />
we all agreed over a cold beer on<br />
day 8 that we are better people<br />
from the Outward Bound<br />
experience and were very<br />
privileged to have the opportunity.<br />
Our team in Adelaide has been<br />
successful in handling some<br />
different International movements<br />
recently.<br />
<strong>The</strong> first was in conjunction with<br />
Dachser in Germany and involved<br />
the importation of 341 tonnes of<br />
machinery for use in the mining<br />
industry in South Australia. This<br />
consisted mainly of crates<br />
(pictured) each weighing 73 tonne<br />
containing water pumps to assist in<br />
drawing water from up to 7 km<br />
away from the mine to supply the<br />
water to the drilling device. <strong>The</strong><br />
movement required heavy haulage,<br />
pilots, police escorts and all<br />
Jon Francis in front of one of the water pumps