CGA’s Mitchell Brooke is not one to emphasise the problems without coming up with answers to them. “In respect of landside efficiency,” he said, “DCT must implement a series of congestion strategies.” And these include a need for import block releases in the form of group import releases (GIR), and achieving an interchange zone (ITZ) throughput up to 1 500 gate moves per shift. He also suggested that the booking and appointment system (just revised into what is hoped to be a workable format after extensive discussions between the DHCA and TPT) would streamline truck flows. The study also stressed a need for improved vessel berthing windows and improved import/export stack planning. “This,” Brooke said, “to strategise the import/export stacks to avoid cyclical peak volume which occurs each week without fail”.
