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QMASTOR has been awarded a major contract with Canada’s largest export coal terminal. In a major coup for the company, Westshore Terminals (Westshore) has selected QMASTOR to implement QMASTOR‟s Port Suite of products including PortVu, iFuse and QMetrics. The Port Suite will provide Westshore with a bulk terminal management system that will form a mission critical component of the coal export terminal‟s operations.
Functionality provided by the QMASTOR products includes:
• Stockyard and inventory management
• Voyage and vessel management
• Rail and logistics planning
• Equipment, task and route planning
• Customer and third party web interfaces
• Integration to rail providers
• QMetrics KPI and management dashboards
Westshore was engaged by QMASTOR‟s new North American office, and this success further demonstrates QMASTOR‟s progress in advancing the Port Suite product portfolio as well as the Company‟s global expansion strategy.
QMASTOR Managing Director Trent Bagnall said “QMASTOR welcomes the opportunity to partner with Westshore on this break-through project. Our Port Suite will provide a world class management system to Westshore‟s already successful operation,” Mr Bagnall said.
“The Westshore site combined with our other bulk terminal installations at Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal (DBCT – Mackay QLD), Newcastle Coal Infrastructure Group (NCIG –Newcastle NSW) and Queensland Bulk Handling (QBH – Brisbane QLD) provides QMASTOR with a leading presence in the bulk terminal market. Significantly, the Westshore site will also provide a strong reference point for other ports and terminals in North America,” Mr Bagnall added.
About QMASTOR
QMASTOR Limited is a leading technology vendor which develops, markets and supports management information systems for the global mining, ports, power and bulk commodity industries. QMASTOR‟s solutions allow clients to maximise their profits through the efficient use of resources. Their products are designed to integrate easily with a client‟s mining, process control, and transportation and business systems.
Listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX: QML), QMASTOR‟s systems are used to manage over 750 million tonnes of bulk commodity movements per annum. QMASTOR supports its global client base through offices located in Australia, Africa, South America and North America.
QMASTOR’s award winning products include Pit to Port, Pit to Plant, PortVu, iFuse, Horizon, SMS3D and Metallurgical Accountant. QMASTOR is an early adopter of new technologies/open standards and its platforms are based upon .net, WPF and Silverlight, SOA and web services.
About Westshore Terminals
Westshore Terminals is located at Roberts Bank, Delta BC, Canada. A part of Port Metro Vancouver, it is Canada‟s No. 1 coal export facility, easily surpassing the combined coal shipments of all other terminals in Canada. For the past decade, Westshore has also been the busiest single export coal terminal in all of North America, routinely shipping about 21 million tonnes of coal each year and bringing in billions of dollars of wealth toCanada.
