Australia's Prime Minister, Scott Morrison recently, and quite correctly, noted that our ports are the gateway for our economy. He is also quite correct in asserting that port inefficiency is a tax on all Australians. And our container ports are … [Read more...]
Shipping Australia CEO urges port and logistics reform at industry roundtable
The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission's recent Container stevedoring monitoring report 2020-21 has revealed the weak points in the Australian supply chain. A high-level meeting was subsequently called by the Department of Home … [Read more...]
Ship operating costs up 773%, demand up, supply up, congestion up, shipper propaganda up
Current market conditions are caused by a huge surge in the demand for container transport. On the supply side, box port congestion and poor container port performance are reducing the supply of shipping. The costs to operate a ship are … [Read more...]
Container ports and landside must solve their problems to resolve freight crisis
New analysis from internationally respected maritime analysts, Sea Intelligence, has conclusively demonstrated that the big, un-tackled problems in the ongoing freight crisis can be found at ports and on the landside. Bottleneck problems in … [Read more...]
Congestion is causing vessel delays that are equal to removing ALL ultra-large container ships from the market
Unprecedented congestion and the resulting delays to vessels have the effect of removing vast amounts of capacity from the world container shipping fleet, internationally respected maritime analyst company Sea-Intelligence has indicated. Using … [Read more...]