Despatches by Vessel (Shipments)

Vessel despatches or ship despatches are known in MineMarket as 'shipments'.

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

Use the Shipment Explorer to create, view and edit shipments; and view shipments by timeline.

Vessel Nominations

When a vessel is assigned to a shipment, MineMarket creates a vessel nomination for the shipment. Vessel nominations can be accepted or rejected.

Loading and Unloading Vessels

For bulk material, the transfer of material from a stockpile onto a vessel is a shipment loading transaction and the transfer of material from the vessel to a stockpile is a shipment unloading transaction. Hatch loading plans can be used to create shipment loading transactions. A process flow with the loading port as a destination is required for shipment bulk loading. A process flow with the unloading port as a source is required for shipment bulk unloading. See Create a Process Flow.

For discrete units (DUs), the transfer of packages or package groups from a warehouse onto a vessel is a shipment loading movement and the transfer of packages or package groups from the vessel to a warehouse is a shipment unloading movement. A movement flow with the loading port as a destination is required for shipment DU loading. A movement flow with the unloading port as a source is required for shipment DU unloading.

When predefined routes are used for a shipment, the Loading Only, Unloading Only or Both setting for the route point locations is inherited from the ship route. See Create a Ship 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 to that location, the activity at the route point is deemed to be Loading. If material flows only exist from that location, the activity at the route point is deemed to be Unloading. If material flows exist to and from that location, the activity can be either Loading or Unloading, with Loading used as the default.

For shipments created from a template, the template defines the route and may define default process flows and stockpiles for loading and unloading transactions. See Set up a Shipment Template.

Videos

A Datamine consultant recorded this video about shipment loading plans in MineMarket.

A Datamine consultant recorded this video about shipment draft surveys in MineMarket.

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.