BT Defence & Military Logistics continues to support the Joint Logistics Units (JLU) through Australian Defence Force (ADF) - Standing Order Panel with recent Defence Tactical Manoeuvres and Community Health Support Services, coordinating the uplift and safe delivery of the defence operations vehicles, Tricon containers and heavy vehicles to and from their remote operations.

Annually, the Joint Logistics Unit nationally support a remote community in terms of their day to day health and physical infrastructure; this year the supportive community is Titjikala, NT. This community is located some 120 kilometres due south of Alice Springs, with supporting equipment being uplifted from both the Holsworthy Army Barracks (NSW) and RAAF Base Edinburgh (SA) to go directly to site with a strict RDD (Required Delivery Date), which saw both JLU and BT working closely together with the Army personnel at uplift and delivery.

NORFORCE based in Alice Springs became the overall command centre in terms of performing the exacting deliveries of these oversize vehicles, machinery and equipment to specific locations within this community. Between the JLU and BT there was a strictly monitored distribution plan and timetable established via the ADF to achieve this important deployment to the remote community in Titjikala, NT. This task required a team commitment by BT nationally to support the JLU teams in Holsworthy, Edinburgh and Titjikala with the correct equipment in a timely manner in readiness for the Australian Defence Force – Standing Order Panel. Additionally to support this Commonwealth Community Health project, BT also supported the non-defence sector by way of providing a number of road train distribution services to the construction sector out of Adelaide to this project, for suppliers who will work alongside ADF engineering teams to build new health care facilities in this community that will remain long after the defence health support teams of 2015 have left the region and returned to their home base operations in Adelaide and Sydney.

Part of BT’s commitment to the ADF is to create unique and distinctive value propositions that drive efficiencies into beneficial outcomes, supporting our defence sector in the delivery of its many national programs throughout our Australian Army, Air Force, Navy and Aerospace Infield Whole of Life Sustainment Programs.

BT’s Defence & Military Logistics Team ensures that the level of dedication and commitment to these programs fits within our core business model, “The Can Do People”, as all these journeys required detailed planning on the part of our national operations and compliance teams internally and exposure externally to ensure OOG road trains could be utilised where legally possible and physically practical to deliver better cost outcomes into and out of the Northern Territory. Additionally, this meant the placement of Load Masters on the defence sites to ensure vehicles, equipment (such as cranage) and consolidations were all accommodated by the our BT Defence SMEs (Specific Materials Experts) in terms of load restraints, lifting studies, load placement and overall safety.  

The precision required by our Defence & Military Logistics teams to ensure that all defence movements travel safely to and from site is simply no accident; at BT Defence & Military Logistics we take all consolidations seriously.  Our client is the ultimate client in the ADF, and the JLU place strict demands on BT in terms of the on-time movements—uplift date and times as well as Required Deliver Date (RDD).

Importantly, at BT our drivers remain the face of our business on the ground with the defence personnel and suppliers at uplift and delivery points nationally around Australia, demonstrating their commitment to “The Can Do People” and willingness to assist the defence personnel on site, compliance to fatigue regulations and importantly ensuring no damage in transit. The BT national operations teams are our customer service centres with direct online contact with both defence Points of Contact (POC), ensuring that the drivers arrive on time to consolidate and depart safely, monitoring each consignment in transit, on time delivery and reporting back to the JLUs with the freight order (FO) in-transit data as required by the ADF and JLU. Again, well done to the our BT Drivers, Operations and Compliance teams for all the defence tasks that we perform weekly—great work, team.

Defence & Military projects like these don’t just happen without  huge amounts of preplanning, scheduling, constant review / updating of these plans and most importantly effectively communicating to all stakeholders involved; as a reward for our efforts BT make them appear to be quite simple in the effective delivery of our pursuit to support the national defence of our wonderful country.