Despatches by Barge (Service Trips)

Barge despatches are known in MineMarket as 'service trips'.

Despatching by barge involves transporting bulk material or discrete units along a barge route from a loading location to an unloading location.

Use the Barge Explorer to create, view and edit service trips; and view service trips by timeline.

Loading and Unloading Barges

For bulk material, the transfer of material from a stockpile onto a barge is a service trip loading transaction and the transfer of material from the barge to a stockpile is a service trip unloading transaction. A process flow with the loading barge terminal or port as a destination is required for service trip bulk loading. A process flow with the unloading barge terminal or port as a source is required for service trip bulk unloading. See Create a Process Flow.

For discrete units (DUs), the transfer of packages or package groups from a warehouse onto a barge is a service trip loading movement and the transfer of packages or package groups from the barge to a warehouse is a service trip unloading movement. A movement flow with the loading barge terminal or port as a destination is required for service trip DU loading. A movement flow with the unloading barge terminal or port as a source is required for service trip DU unloading. See Create a Movement Flow.

When predefined routes are used for a service trip, the Loading Only, Unloading Only or Both setting for the route point locations is inherited from the barge route. See Create a Barge Route.

When dynamic routes are defined, whether a route point location is Loading Only, Unloading Only or Both is determined by whether material flows (that is, process flows or movement flows) exist from or to that location. If material flows only exist from that location, the activity at the route point is deemed to be Loading. If material flows only exist to that location, the activity at the route point is deemed to be Unloading. If material flows exist from and to that location, the activity can be either Loading or Unloading, with Loading used as the default.

For service trips created from a template, the template defines the route and other information. See Set up a Service Trip Template.

Activities Common to all Despatch Types

For information about despatch states, load states, direct loading between despatch types, despatch quality, traceability, costs and service charges, see Despatches - Common Activities.