Exporters in New South Wales are bound to face a severe shortage of empty containers as the Empty Container Incentive Scheme at Port Botany increasingly and unnecessarily aggravates a short-supply.
There is a backlog of boxes to be unpacked and moved in New South Wales. This backlog was caused by the recent pandemic outbreak in NSW when Omicron ran wild. Infections caused a huge labour shortage in the stevedoring...
Much of the commentary in the media about the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission’s investigation into the shipping industry now appear to be hot air blown about by self-interested parties.
Ahead of the publication of this year’s Container Stevedoring Monitoring Report, Shipping Australia met with senior officials from the ACCC recently to provide an extensive written and verbal brief about the current...
International ship owner, charterer, ship broker and ship agent body BIMCO has launched a short video that highlights the importance of shipping to our way of life.
It also highlights the vital role played by seafarers and everyone else in the maritime community as their work kept the world fed and fuelled when the world basically stopped because of COVID. That’s a powerful message that should be noted by national governments, the various official bodies and the wider public.
You can watch the...
https://shippingaustralia.com.au/bimco-ships-make-the-world-go/
Holiday reading just got significantly more interesting with the publication of Shipping Australia’s Annual Review 2020!
Our 112 page annual features a wide range of updates from ports, shipping lines, pilots, stevedores and government agencies. It’s a most comprehensive outline of what happened in shipping, ports, policy and regulation in Australia and internationally throughout the year.
There’s also a fascinating 50 year personal retrospective by our former chairman Ken Fitzpatrick. His...
https://shippingaustralia.com.au/shipping-australias-annual-review-2020-out-now/
Shipping Australia would like to wish all readers a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Our office will remain open with limited staff throughout the Christmas/New Year period and contact can be made via our normal admin(at)shippingaustralia.com.au email and office phone.
The next edition of our Signal newsletter will be published in the first week of January 2021.
Please spare a thought for seafarers who just keep on doing their...
https://shippingaustralia.com.au/merry-christmas-happy-new-year/
Most businesses provide incentives for returning customers. But not in New South Wales. Here, the relevant port authorities apparently much prefer to penalise their customers by double-charging them.
A Navigation Service Charge is a statutory charge levied by port authorities on ships that enter a port. It is a reasonable way to charge for access to a port. But it is not reasonable for shipping companies to be forced to pay it twice.
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With all the public focus on the container terminals there is another disgraceful action by Maritime Union of Australia henchmen that has gone virtually unnoticed.
A campaign of targeted intimidation and harassment by the Maritime Union of Australia has caused mooring services company Ports & Harbour Services Pty Ltd (P&HS) to suspend operations.
In a statement headed “Temporary service pause,” the company said: “as you are all aware our new lines service commenced operations last Monday 21 Sept...
https://shippingaustralia.com.au/unions-ruthless-campaign-of-bullying-and-intimidation/
An application to the Fair Work Commission by container terminal operator Patrick Terminals to terminate industrial action is strongly supported by Shipping Australia.
“Any disruption to trade at our ports causes harm to Australian businesses, consumers and our broader economy”, Shipping Australia chief executive officer Rod Nairn said. “This round of waterfront industrial action during a global pandemic and a national economic crisis is reckless, grossly irresponsible and utterly inappropriate.
“...
Protecting critical infrastructure from cyber-threats is on the Federal Government’s agenda. It has released a consultation paper, “Protecting Critical Infrastructure and Systems of National Significance”. The government hopes to have change legislated before the end of this year.
Noting that there have been a variety of cyber security incidents of late, such as compromises of the Australian parliamentary...
https://shippingaustralia.com.au/australia-tackles-infrastructure-cyber-security/
Coastal shipping could provide relief to the freight congestion caused by onerous and confusing state COVID testing and self-isolation rules.
Some container shipping lines already carry domestic freight between Australian capital cities on regular services at better-than-weekly frequency.
Shippers with regular shipping requirements already find it advantageous to look to the “blue highway” to move their cargoes between Australian States and to avoid the border road-blocks being imposed by...