ABP Southampton:
Marine Apprenticeship
Scheme / Port
Developments
Associated British Ports
 Leading provider of port facilities
and services via 21 ports in the UK
Troon
Ayr
 Throughput – 118.6mt (2013)
Silloth
 ABP handles almost a quarter of
UK seaborne trade
Barrow
Fleetwood
Goole
Immingham
Garston
 ABP owns approx 5,000 hectares
of port land
 Ports range from Grimsby &
Immingham, the UK’s largest
complex to smaller sized specialist
ports such as Teignmouth
Hull
Grimsby
King’s Lynn
Lowestoft
Ipswich
Swansea
Port Talbot
Barry
Newport
Cardiff
Southampton
Plymouth
Teignmouth
A Harbour Authority’s Role and Responsibility
 Managing operations within the port safely and efficiently
 Develop and operate a Marine Safety Management System to ensure all
risks are controlled
 Compliance with the Port Marine Safety Code and the Guide to Good
Practice on Port Marine Operations
 Employ competent and qualified staff
Harbour Master – Roles and Responsibilities
 Day to day responsibility for the safe operation of navigation and other
marine activities within the harbour and its approaches
 Powers of direction
 Co-ordination and regulation of all vessels within a harbour/dock and its
approaches
 Responsible for the provision and maintenance of aids to navigation
Recruitment and/or succession planning
 Recruitment sources:
 Merchant Navy
 Other ports - ABP or non ABP
 Other departments
 Numbers of suitably qualified staff available from Merchant Navy are
decreasing, partly because:
 Low numbers of cadets entering the profession
 Salary differential between sea and shore careers
 Promotion of suitable internal candidates alone will not be enough to
satisfy demand in coming years
The way forward
Creation of an ABP marine apprenticeship
 Aim
 Prepare a source of quality trained staff to maintain high professional marine
standards and to service our customers’ needs
 Objective
 By the end of their training the apprentice will be capable of performing a key role in
the operational marine team controlling shipping movements at supervisory level
 Qualification
 5 GCSEs or Scottish Standards, including Maths and English at grade A-C/Level 1-3
 A valid manual driving licence
 Location
 Scheme originally based on Humber, but now extended to Southampton
 May involve work periods at a number of ABP Ports – to give experience in all
operations areas
 Will include periods on board ships, launches and work boats
The way forward
People who are:
 Looking for a career in Port Marine Operations
 With continuous professional development opportunities
 Determined to succeed
 Able to work within and, in time, lead a team
 Self motivated
 Self confident
 Self reliant
Format of training periods
 Year 1
 Year 3
 Personnel inductions
 South Tyneside College
 Practical Training (Basic)
 Other Department Attachments
 Training Courses (Basic)
 Secondments to Affiliate
Companies and Customers
 Year 2
 Practical Training (Supervisory)
 Marine Department Attachments
 Training Courses (Intermediate)
 Year 4
 Practical Training (Qualification
and On job)
 Training Courses (Management)
Are we guaranteeing a job?
NO
BUT…….
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Having spent 4 years and £150,000 on training, and
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Anticipating the vacancies we will have going forward……….
Recruitment process
 Scheme briefing days took place on:
 3rd & 4th April in Ipswich
 16th & 17th April in Southampton
 24th & 25th April in Ayr & Troon
 Applications were returned by 16th May
 Interview candidates notified week commencing 9th June
 Interviews are to be held in:
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Ipswich on 19th & 20th June
Southampton on 26th & 27th June
Ayr & Troon on 3rd & 4th July
Immingham on 10th & 11th July
 Assessment day will be held in Immingham on 31st July
 The selected apprentices start at Immingham on Tuesday 2nd September
GRADUATE MANAGEMENT TRAINING
SCHEME
OBJECTIVES OF THE GRADUATE SCHEME
 To provide learning opportunities mapped against eight key competencies
in order to develop graduates into senior managers of the future.
 To work with the graduates in establishing the gaps between where they
are now against the competency framework.
 Help the graduates understand how they might plan and manage their own
development and learning to achieve these competencies.
 To provide four main categories of training in order to maximise their
learning opportunities.
 Graduates will acquire knowledge in ten key areas of the business.
SELECTION PROCESS
 Key Dates
 Advertising campaign goes live in October and closes the following January.
 After initial telephone screening, interviews take place in February / March.
 A total of 12 candidates are invited to attend an Assessment Centre in late March
/ early April.
 Up to 3 successful candidates will be offered a position to commence at the end
of August.
 Selection Process
 Approximately 50 candidates are interviewed around the ports by a Personnel
Manager and an Operations Manager.
 Competency based Interviews are carried out and the candidates are scored on
their responses.
 A final selection of 12 are then invited to attend the Assessment Centre.
 Assessment Centre
 The Assessment Centre is held over two days.
 Various activities take place during the two days.
 A cross-selection of eight selectors are chosen from the business to monitor and
evaluate the candidates and to put forward the three to be offered a position.
GRADUATE PROGRAMME
 The programme runs for 13 months.
 The scheme is structured but has sufficient flexibility to take advantage of
development opportunities.
 First 2 days spent at Head Office being inducted.
 Next 5 weeks spent at Ipswich having hands-on experience in practical cargo
handling
 Graduates then separated and sent to a major port for their first six-month
placement.
 At the end of the six-months the graduates are then rotated for a further six-month
placement at another major port.
 A business mentor and a buddy are assigned to each graduate on their six-month
placements.
ABP Port of Southampton
ABP Port of Southampton – Cargoes Handled
• The UK’s second largest Container Port
• Northern Europe’s largest turnaround
cruise port
• Leading car handling port
• Bulk handling terminals
• Sole importer for Canary Island Fruit
• Petrochemicals
ABP Port of Southampton – Container Terminal
Southampton Container Terminal
- Largest ships in the world
Responding to newest vessels:
 400m LOA
 55m wide
 15.5m draught
 Up to 15,000 containers (TEU)
 4 deep-sea berths at container terminal
 201/2 berth re-developed as SCT5
 Has required re-facing of existing berth – lowering from -10.2m CD to -16m
ABP Port of Southampton – Improved Access
Southampton Approach Channel Dredge
Access window will improve to 47% (from 22% for 14.5m vessels)
…our largest ship!!!
…best not to see her from this angle!!!
Length overall
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396 metres
Beam
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53.6 metres
Draught
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+15 metres
DWT (tonnes)
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187,625
Capacity
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15,000 TEU
= 4 football pitches long,
½ a football pitch wide
Any Questions?