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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