Vessel and Shipment Configuration

Despatching material by ship is known as a shipment, and encompasses the vessel name, the vessel hold structure, ship route details, vessel loading/unloading transactions, and all associated activities (for example, sampling).

Shipments can be created via the Shipment Explorer or from a shipment template.

Draft Parameters

Transport draft parameters are a configurable measurement type, currently only applicable to shipments.

The depth to which a ship sinks in the water when loaded (and the implied loaded mass) is its draft. Shipment draft parameters allow several draft values and masses to be entered for a despatch route point for a shipment. Each despatch route point for a shipment can have only one reading per draft parameter.

The mass of a shipment draft parameter can be manually entered for the shipment, or it can be updated from a draft survey or an active loading plan.

Example: Port A has a shallow, tidal channel. All shipments leaving Port A need to have data entered for multiple draft parameters:

• Actual Sailing Draft, with the mass updated from the draft survey
• Planned Sailing Draft, with the mass updated from the active loading plan
• Maximum Sailing Draft
• Ideal Sailing Draft

Shipment draft parameters can be added to shipment templates, so that all shipments created from those templates have the shipment draft parameters set up and ready for data entry.

Vessel Transport Classes

Vessels are configured based on the maximum tonnage for each vessel. The vessel transport class defines the class, or range, of tonnage size of the type of vessel. For each vessel type, a default lot tonnage, used to determine the number of samples to be taken when barging lot sampling is performed, can be specified.

Vessel Types

Vessels are categorised into vessel types. A vessel must belong to a vessel type.

Bulk vessels can manage containers as well as bulk material.

Each bulk vessel has a set number of hatches which are used to store the transported material and act as a reference for the quality loaded onto the bulk vessel. All bulk vessels are associated with a vessel transport class, based upon the maximum tonnage of the bulk vessel, which determines the number of samples to be taken when lot sampling is performed.

At least one bulk vessel, with its associated hatch composition, must be defined before a ship loading transaction can be made.

Vessel Status

If the Bulk Vessel status definition exists, when you create a vessel, the vessel is assigned the initial status. This status definition controls whether the vessel is editable and selectable. See Status Definitions.

Shipment Templates

Shipment templates are used to create shipments for despatching material by vessel.

A shipment template must specify the following information for shipments created from the template:

• A shipment route
• Whether the route can be edited
• Whether the template can be changed to a different shipment template

A shipment template may specify:

• A default loading process flow and stockpile, so that bulk material loading transactions can be created with one right-click menu option
• A default unloading process flow and stockpile, so that bulk material unloading transactions can be either created with one right-click menu option or automatically created
• Allowable stockpiles for loading and unloading, to limit which stockpiles can be used
• Default transport event templates for each route point
• Default draft parameters for each route point
• Allowable contributors
• Costs and service charges from service or freight contracts
• Which tabs display on the Shipment
• An opening survey

Shipment templates are categorised into shipment template groups. A shipment template must belong to a shipment template group.

Video

A Datamine consultant recorded this video about shipment templates in MineMarket.