Domestic shippers should look to coastal shipping to ease road and rail freight bottlenecks

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...

https://shippingaustralia.com.au/domestic-shippers-should-look-to-coastal-shipping-to-ease-road-and-rail-freight-bottlenecks/

Northern Territory allows international crew changes

Pictured: the flag of the Northern Territory; Graphic: Clker Free Vector Images from Pixabay

New rules issued today will allow shipping companies to change over crews in the Northern Territory, Australia. The new directions also preserve the exemption from mandatory quarantine for seafarers.

Restriction… and exemption

The rules in Northern Territory follow a now familiar format: there is a broad sweeping rule or restriction and that is followed by a broad exemption for certain classes of people...

https://shippingaustralia.com.au/northern-territory-allows-international-crew-changes/

Queensland eases border restrictions for international seafarers

Pictured: concept of a seafarer wearing a surgical mask. Photo montage credits: Jim Wilson, OlafPictures, Pisauikan, Pixabay

Crew changes for both on-signing and off-signing ship crews are now possible in Queensland following the entry into force of a new class exemption for non-cruise maritime crew.

New border rules supersede all previous directions. The new rules continue to ban anyone from overseas or from within Australia entering Queensland. But the rules now also give a “class exemption for...

https://shippingaustralia.com.au/queensland-eases-border-restrictions-for-international-seafarers/

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