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Katie Woolf spoke with Darwin Port Operations General Manager Ian Nibblock · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Mix one at four point nine dot com DOTU for
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  Speaker 1: all the latest news and information. Now three sixty with
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  Speaker 1: Katie Wolf. Everyone is listening Mix one O four point
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  Speaker 1: nine one hundred.
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  Speaker 2: Joining us on the line is Star and Port Operations
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  Speaker 2: General Manager Ian Niblock. Good morning to you, Ian.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning Katie.
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  Speaker 1: Ian.
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  Speaker 2: I know that this lockdown has had an impact on
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  Speaker 2: so many around the top end. How are things going
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to our port operations.
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  Speaker 3: So, Katie, we are considered essential to the fresh supply
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  Speaker 3: chain and therefore need to kick the port operating for
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  Speaker 3: the supply of fuel and exports and imports. So we've
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  Speaker 3: gone to obviously essential personnel only on site with all
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  Speaker 3: of those core COVID precautions that we need to have
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  Speaker 3: in place, PPE masks, everything else. And then what we've
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  Speaker 3: done with the rest of our team is getting to
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  Speaker 3: work from home where they can. I think there's three
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  Speaker 3: or four of us in the office today who are
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  Speaker 3: all essentral. Then obviously the majority of our work for
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  Speaker 3: South Front line down at East arm Wharf and they
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  Speaker 3: are obviously on the site and doing the jobs to
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  Speaker 3: stevedoring companies in the marine supply base are doing the
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  Speaker 3: same as are the gas plants for Santos and impacts
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  Speaker 3: and an.
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  Speaker 2: Have you still seen the same volume of vessels sort
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  Speaker 2: of coming and going.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, we have here, We're nothing really has changed, and
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  Speaker 3: that obviously cruise ships has still got the major impact
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  Speaker 3: on the larger ships. But we have got the domestic vessels,
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  Speaker 3: three of which are coming through the port on a
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  Speaker 3: regular basis, one of them actually in today. Not sure
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  Speaker 3: what the impact of the lockdown will have on that,
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  Speaker 3: but I guess we'll wait and see what the Chief
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  Speaker 3: Minister has to say in his next announcement.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah what happens. I guess, like you said, you will
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  Speaker 2: need to wait and see what the Chief Minister says.
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  Speaker 2: But with that domestic vessel that's due today, are they
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  Speaker 2: allowed then off that vessel or do they really have
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  Speaker 2: to stay.
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  Speaker 3: On I'm not sure what's happened with them. So I
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  Speaker 3: know that the Border Force and medical people we're going
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  Speaker 3: to be in the cruise terminal this morning to do
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  Speaker 3: all of the checks, the health checks because they come
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  Speaker 3: from WA. I'm not sure whether they've then been allowed
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  Speaker 3: off that vessel or whether they've got to stay on
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  Speaker 3: board until such time as there's a change to the lockdown.
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  Speaker 3: Don't know, maybe they've been allowed if they're going somewhere else,
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  Speaker 3: maybe they've been allowed to go to the airport or
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  Speaker 3: go into hotel accommodation. I genuinely don't know the answer.
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  Speaker 2: Well, well and wait and see. And here Ian, I
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  Speaker 2: understand that that last week we did still have the
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  Speaker 2: first iron or export for five years.
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  Speaker 3: Indeed, Yeah, it's really exciting because we've been trying to
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  Speaker 3: get iron or going back out through the port for
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  Speaker 3: the whole of that period of time. So we shipped
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  Speaker 3: about thirty thousand tons of ironyl which has come from
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  Speaker 3: the Fantas Creek mine Empty Bully, and the operators of
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  Speaker 3: that mine are using some new well state of the
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  Speaker 3: X ray technology to screen the waste rock stockpile. So
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  Speaker 3: this technology will pick up those small rocks that have
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  Speaker 3: got iron ore high iron ore content and put those
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  Speaker 3: into bombin and discards the rest which are just rocks
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  Speaker 3: without iron ore content. So that way you're actually refining
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  Speaker 3: what you're exposing, which is really good.
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  Speaker 2: There you go, So it sounds like it's all happening
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  Speaker 2: out there at the port despite the lockdown, and as
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  Speaker 2: it needs to really, like you said, right at the
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  Speaker 2: start of the interview, how we've obviously got to make
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  Speaker 2: sure that we are still able to transport some of
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  Speaker 2: our essentials.
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  Speaker 3: Well absolutely, yeah, so yeah, I'm so hotly following the
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  Speaker 3: Iron Iron or shipment. We had a Mangani shipments of
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  Speaker 3: fifty thousand tons, so we did eighty thousand tons of
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  Speaker 3: book when we're alls last week, which is really good.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, I mean we need to have our fuel
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  Speaker 3: coming in and we need to have our beer coming
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  Speaker 3: in as well, so really we've got to keep the
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  Speaker 3: port working from.
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  Speaker 2: One hundred percent. Ian Niblock, good to catch up with
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  Speaker 2: you this morning. I always appreciate your time. Yeah, thank you,
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  Speaker 2: Yeah you too, thank you. And uh and the Darwin
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  Speaker 2: Porsche Operations general manager there Ian near Block