Category: Wilmar Miscellaneous

Harvest & Transport Safety

• 6 collisions in total in the Burdekin region in 2017, all of which involved local traffic mostly off road ie. siding incidents, farm access points.
• Mackay Sugar had a fatality during a shunting process in a siding and Wilmar’s Plane Creek facility experienced a near fatality.
• Incidents highlight the importance that harvesting contractors/haulout operators and respective employees individually complete “siding inductions” in order to have a thorough understanding of policies and processes for working in sidings or adjacent to cane railway lines.
• Burdekin Cane Supply and Transport staff have been very appreciative of growers and contractors reporting information in relation to faulty bins throughout the season.

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Invicta tipped its last bin at about 4:30pm yesterday. B side stopped at 3:40am. We continued on A side for most of the day, with a 2 hour gap after lunch, to give time for us to get some cane from Kalamia crushed there. We shifted 320 bins from Kalamia in the final 24 hours.

At Kalamia we will load the final ~6,000t of Kalamia’s cane plus ~1,500t from Pioneer for crushing today. This will take the mill through to the early hours of tomorrow morning to crush out.

Inkerman has close to 20,000t to harvest from the start of today. There should be less than 8,000t to harvest from the start of tomorrow which should be crushed out by the very early hours of Saturday.

There will be a little over 40,000t left to harvest at Pioneer after today.

We have now crushed 8.040 million tonnes. The final crop looks like it will be around 8.115 – 8.120 million tonnes