Port managers are required to produce multiple plans, procedures and system documents for their individual areas of operation. These include, among others:
- marine safety plans;
- terminal handbooks;
- pilotage and towage guidelines;
- guides to port entry;
- environmental management plans;
- emergency response plans;
- maritime security plans;
- dangerous and hazardous material handling;
- port development guidelines;
- vessel traffic management;
- contractor handbooks; and
- mooring procedures.
The initial writing, setting to work, and inevitable revision of these documents requires:
- extensive knowledge and experience applicable to that particular port and its operations;
- an ability to write and prepare technical documents; and
- writing, revising and setting to work each plan or document.
Importantly, these documents might have to stand the test of regulatory scrutiny, even to the extent of being used in evidence.
A good manager is not necessarily a competent technical writer, nor vice versa.
We have extensive experience in writing extensive suites of port-related documents for managing and operating ports and terminals. These have been written for multiple ports and terminals and form the basis of today’s operations at a number of WA export facilities.