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The Corporation has over 100 employees across a broad spectrum of fields including engineering design and supervision, corporate governance, planning and environment, finance, Port services, business development, marketing, and maintenance.
The Port of Townsville is responsible for facilitating trade through the Port by effectively and efficiently managing and operating Port facilities and services, and ensuring appropriate levels of safety, security and availability.
The Corporation is a Queensland Company Government Owned Corporation (GOC) established in its current form on 1 July 2008 under the Government Owned Corporations Act 1993 (as amended by the Government Owned Corporations Amendment Act 2007) (GOC Act). The Corporation manages the Port of Townsville and Port of Lucinda.
Purpose
The Corporation’s positioning line, which is used throughout our communications, is “Positioned for Opportunity”.
The Corporation is committed to:
- acting commercially and competitively to facilitate regional trade and economic development that maximises the sustainable growth of its ports and shareholder value;
- proactively working in partnership with existing and future customers to identify, facilitate and secure commercial opportunities;
- providing competitive best practice facilities and services to meet the needs of existing and future customers;
- maximising utilisation of existing resources; delivering critical infrastructure to ensure timely and sustainable growth of its ports; and
- being a responsible corporate citizen who reinvests in the community in which it operates and ensures environmental and safety performance in all aspects of its operations.
Core Business
The Corporation’s core business functions are to:
- act commercially and optimise the value of the business whilst endeavouring to achieve sustained long-term business growth;
- establish, manage and operate effective and efficient port facilities and services at its ports;
- make land available for:
- the establishment, management and operation of effective and efficient port facilities and port services at its ports by other persons; or
- other purposes consistent with the operation of its ports;
- provide or arrange for the provision of ancillary services or works necessary or convenient for the effective and efficient operation of its ports;
- keep appropriate levels of safety and security in the provision and operation of the port facilities and port services;
- provide other services incidental to the performance of the Corporation’s other functions, or likely to enhance the usage of its ports;
- perform any other functions and exercise any other powers conferred on the Corporation under the Transport Infrastructure Act 1994 (Qld) (TI Act), the GOC Act and Regulations or another Act or under the Corporation’s SCI or Corporate Plan;
- provide port services and ancillary services whether in or outside its ports, whether in or outside Australia and whether for another port or for other parties; and
- carry out any activity that is incidental to the attainment of the objects set out above.
These core business functions are consistent with the Corporation’s Constitution, the TI Actand shareholding Ministers’ strategic expectations as outlined in section 1.3 of this SCI.
Corporate Objectives
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Shareholder Value
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- Responsible financial management and profit growth providing a sustainable return on assets and value to shareholders.
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Facilities and Services
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- Efficient, reliable, safe and secure port facilities and services that continually meet customer and operational requirements.
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Customers, Stakeholders and Trade Growth
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- A collaborative business partner that works with its customers and relevant stakeholders to identify, facilitate and secure commercial opportunities.
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Community, Environment and Sustainable Development
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- A responsible corporate citizen that reinvests in the community and manages its operations in an environmentally responsible and sustainable manner.
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- A work environment that is equitable and safe and attracts, develops and retains motivated, skilled and high-performing people committed to achieving business objectives.
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Corporate Values
In all operations and dealings, the Corporation adheres to the following core values:
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Collaboration & Value Creation
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- Proactively working in partnership with customers to grow existing business, attract new trade and facilitate supply chain solutions.
- Acting commercially to maximise profit growth and shareholder returns while appropriately managing business risks.
- Being a responsible corporate citizen providing economic and social value to the community.
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Respect, Development & Innovation
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- Providing a work environment that encourages and supports innovation, teamwork, respect, honesty and professional development of employees.
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Commitment & Performance Excellence
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- Being committed to sustainable development and driving best practice environmental management.
- Ensuring robust safety management systems are in place to protect the safety of all employees, contractors and visitors.
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Transparency & Accountability
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- Being committed to compliance with governance structures and procedures and ensuring transparent and accountable reporting.
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Corporate Identity
Our corporate identity was given a complete overhaul in 2002, culminating with the release of a new logo. The logo aims to strengthen our corporate identity by creating a consistent and cohesive image that will showcase the port as an efficient, progressive and modern organisation.
It was designed to represent Nexus, a centre for import and export in North Queensland. The logo features a dynamic and bold symbol reminiscent of a ship's propeller, with the use of converging lines to represent latitude and longitude and colour to symbolise the meeting of land and sea.
The four segments, or 'blades', represent the port's four key elements the Corporation takes into consideration in all its dealings: industry, trade, community, and environment.
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