The Operations Manager does his work at the centre of port logistics

The port of Kokkola is the hub of transport chains, where sea transport, rail transport and road transport meet. Technical Supervisor Teemu Petäjävuori plays a key role in ensuring that the logistics complex operates efficiently and reliably.

Teemu Petäjävuori can be credibly described as an experienced professional in the field of logistics. In his earlier working career, he worked in logistics both in a large industry using port services and in road and rail transport.

Petäjävuori says that in logistics it is especially important to visualise the whole. You need to know the amount of time each step in the logistics chain takes, and which affects what. Resources must be in the right place at the right time, and if something goes wrong at the upstream end of the chain, it will be reflected in difficulties at the downstream end of the logistics chain.

It is very much about anticipation. About doing the right things at the right time.

– If the grooved rails on the tracks are not cleared from snow or cleaned from debris, the wagons cannot not travel along them. That is why the maintenance tasks in the winter must be planned so that the wagons get there according to the schedule, he gives as an example.

ANOTHER EXAMPLE of foresight is related to port cranes and the various freight traffics passing through the port.

– When the ship arrives at the pier, preparatory work must be done. If, for example, a container ship has been unloaded late in the evening, and the