TIME MANAGEMENT GOES DIGITAL

 

KPA'S Managing Director flags off the Time Management prossession that was going round the port to sensitize workers on the Digital Time Management system and its benefits

Kenya Ports Authority on Tuesday launched a flagship project that is aimed at changing time management system from the current cumbersome manual clocking to an easy and reliable digital system at the KPA Headquarters.

The digital system that is expected to go live on 1^st of April 2015 will come along with many benefits to both the staff and the Authority. The biometric clocking system will be connected to SAP system hence employees will be able to track their working hours via Employee Self Service (ESS).

Speaking during the event the Managing Director Mr. Gichiri Ndua said that digital time management will enhance productivity only if we spend the time in the port working. He stated that the only undoing at the Port is ‘Uzembe’ and therefore requested that we must be our brother’s keeper to remind one another on our roles.

Mr. Ndua also said that he noticed that everyone is happy to be associated with the Port container throughput hitting over a million teus last year. “It is natural that everyone needs to be associated with good things but we should ask ourselves what was our role towards the achievement of the good thing” added the MD.

On the other hand the Dock Workers Union Secretary General Mr. Simeon Sang praised Management for initiating programmes at work place that are aimed at making work easier and in turn enhance overall port productivity. “I would like to assure the Management that the Union staff shall embrace the digital time management system and any other programme that is aimed at enhancing port efficiency” said Sang.

The Secretary General added that he held talks with Governors from Kwale, Mombasa and Kilifi Counties about the possibility of constructing a Dry Port in Mariakani. The Port of Mombasa is experiencing a growth rate of cargo volumes of about 10 per cent and the expansion area is limited. He stated that the proposed dry port will be the solution to port congestion and matching the very increase in cargo volumes. He urged Management to support the idea.

Expressing his gratification on the cordial relationship between Management and Union, the General Manager Human Resources Mr. Salim Chingabwi thanked the Union leadership for disowning absenteeism among its members. He noted that despite the new time management system capability to tackle absenteeism and leaving work area before scheduled time by staff there is need to discourage the vices.

Mr. Chingabwi further said that ports in proximity are camping in the transit countries to do intensive marketing. It is therefore important as KPA staff we up our game to make the Port of Mombasa the port of choice.

The event was graced by General Managers, Heads of Departments and Dock Workers officials.

The Managing Director thereafter flagged off a prossession that will go round the port to sensitize workers on the Digital Time Management system and its benefits. The sensitization exercise will go on for the whole week.