Transport Locations

• Transport Locations
• • Transport Location Types
  • • Rail Sidings
    • Truck Locations
    • Barge Terminals
    • Port Locations
    • Berths
  • Generic Transport Locations and Routes

Transport locations represent the physical locations at which material is loaded onto or unloaded from trains, trucks, barges or vessels.

Transport Location Types

Rail Sidings

A rail siding is a short section of railway track beside the main track, onto which rail vehicles can be diverted when not in use, for goods loading/unloading, or to enable another train to pass.

In MineMarket, a rail siding is specifically a location for train loading and unloading. Rail sidings are created as a type of transport location and are essential for modelling the despatch of material along train routes.

Truck Locations

A truck location is a roadside location for truck loading and unloading.

In MineMarket, truck locations are created as a type of transport location and are essential for modelling the despatch of material along truck routes.

Barge Terminals

A barge terminal is a maritime or riverside facility at which cargo is loaded onto and unloaded from barges.

In MineMarket, barge terminals are created as a type of transport location and are essential for modelling the despatch of material along barge routes. Berths may be created as sub-locations at barge terminals to record more details of the actual functions that occur there.

Port Locations

A port is a maritime facility where ships dock to load and unload cargo.

In MineMarket, ports are created as a type of transport location and are essential for modelling the despatch of material along shipping routes. Stock locations may be defined within port locations to represent the port stockyard. Berths may be also created as sub-locations of a port to record more details of the actual functions that occur there.

The draft of a vessel is the depth of water that is needed so that the vessel can float; that is, at least the vertical distance between the waterline and the bottom of the hull or keel. The draft at a port may refer to the terminal depth at the berths or the channel depth if the port has access channels. Draft considerations are a key component of the commercial viability of ports.

Berths

A berth is a designated location at a port or barge terminal at which a vessel or barge can be moored, usually for the purposes of loading and unloading cargo.

Parameters can be configured to track specific activities, such as loading and unloading rates, swap times, and berthing and unberthing times.

Generic Transport Locations and Routes

A planned loading location and planned unloading location can be specified for despatch orders. If the despatch order is associated with a despatch, information from the despatch is used in invoice calculations for the despatch order. For example, the quantity of material that was loaded supersedes the despatch order's required quantity, and quality data from samples on the despatch supersede the despatch order specifications. By default, the loading location and unloading location in the despatch route also supersede the planned loading location and planned unloading location (only if there are transactions at those route points). These locations may impact invoice calculations, by determining applicable demurrage and despatch conditions, service and freight calculations, parities and contract charges.

Generic transport locations can be set up in MineMarket to represent origin and destination locations for transported goods without specifying real geographic locations connected by a real physical route. For MineMarket implementations with many locations, it may not be practical to set up a route for every possible combination of origin and destination, with bulk material process flows or discrete unit movement flows to support those routes. A simpler configuration is to set up a generic loading location and unloading location for each required transport type, with a generic route between them. The generic route will not have useful travel times between the route points; however, itinerary dates and times may be entered for each despatch or imported from other systems.

If using generic routes, it is essential to configure despatch orders to assume generic loading and unloading locations. See Enter Default Locations for a Sales or Purchase Contract and Edit Despatch Order Details. The locations entered on the despatch order can then be used for invoice calculations, instead of the despatch route points.