The Team's Board Report - Mainfreight

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