Exporters of farm produce will be - and likely are being - hit particularly badly by a policy imposed on the supply chain by the Sydney-based private container port operator. The port operator has imposed a requirement - without consultation and … [Read more...]
Shipping Australia members aid WA relief efforts
Members of Shipping Australia are aiding in relief effort to Western Australia by transporting essential goods by sea. Outback rains and flooding in late January damaged vital cross-country road and rail links and this has caused a shortage of … [Read more...]
Shipping Australia calls for NSW controls on seafarer movements to be relaxed
Continued controls on seafarers arriving in New South Wales now seem to be rather pointless because they can no longer fulfil their policy goals and their monetary and non-monetary costs now outweigh their benefits, Shipping Australia has said in a … [Read more...]
ACCC slams lack of port productivity, unions in container monitoring report
This year's Container Stevedoring Monitoring Report 2020-21 by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission exploded with great force yesterday. The report finds that a surge in demand for containerised cargo and extreme port congestion … [Read more...]
The supply chain crisis has a silver lining – container ships should be decarbonised faster
Stavros Karamperidis, University of Plymouth Several months ago, I warned that the crisis in container ships could jeopardise Christmas by leaving retailers without enough goods on their shelves. Since then, there have been similar fears all over … [Read more...]