Shipping Australia

Sixty of shippings finest golf talent were assembled at Waterford Valley Golf Course on Wednesday 3rd of April in 23-26 degree temperatures to contest the Phil Kelly OAM Perpetual Trophy. The winning team was Leigh Taylors Westlink Container Park entry. The 2 longest drives sponsored by Total Maritime Logistics and Total Maritime Forwarding were won...

The delayed start date of 1 September for the new biosecurity levy announced in last night’s budget was inevitable.   The design of levy is not yet decided.   The Minister’s special committee is currently trying to work out how the Government’s target revenue of $108 million per year can be collected with the least possible...

Collison Forex takes out the SAL NSW Golf challenge ahead of Seaway and Patrick in a tight competition

Shipping Australia has joined with other industry associations represented at the ALC Forum held in Melbourne this week to welcome commitment from both the sides of politics to progressing the National Freight and Supply Chain Strategy. The Deputy Prime Minister said “Good progress is being made in partnership with all levels of government and it...

It’s time that all Australians heard the truth about the Government’s new Biosecurity Levy – a smokescreen of spin to hide an inefficient new tax that all Australians will pay. Protecting our borders from pests and diseases is essential to protect Australia’s agricultural industry, our farmers and our export earnings.  It also protects our comfort...

The new biosecurity levy, if it can be implemented, will not deliver one cent of new money to protect Australia’s biosecurity. It will simply bolster the Federal Budget with an inefficient new tax on industry that will be multiplied and passed onto all Australians.

Australian industry groups reject the Government's proposed new biosecurity levy as unfair, ill-considered and a burden for all Australians

Bill Guest, shipping industry legend and former Shipping Australia Queensland state secretary will speak about 50 years of shipping and containerisation at the SAL QLD State Christmas Luncheon  on 6 December at the Colmslie Hotel, Morningside. All welcome!  Lunch details and bookings here You can read about Bill , who we featured in our latest SAL magazine here.  

The tariff war developing between USA and China seems to be hotting up. As if Australia is trying to get in on the act, the new budget biosecurity levy, a broad-based tariff on all imports, looks very much like Australia’s first salvo in the global tariff war. This is a tax on everything: building products,...

Today is World Maritime Day, a day when every one of us should take the time to recognise and celebrate the essential contribution of the maritime industry to the world’s development and prosperity.  This year is especially memorable as it coincides with the 70th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention establishing the International Maritime...