Prime Minister Scott Morrison is correct: inefficient ports are a tax on all Australians

Pictured: containers in a stack. Photo credit: Dale Staton via Unsplash.

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 inefficient.

Our container ports can take days to get a ship to berth.

Our container ports take a long time to process ships. Our slowest port takes up to 51.7 hours of on-berth time...

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