Shipping Australia welcomes most of the positions in the recent (12 December 2022) Container Stevedoring Monitoring Report from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
Australian container ports ought to have regulatory oversight
We largely agree with the ACCC’s position on Australia’s container ports – they have little to no regulatory oversight, and, given both their pivotal importance to Australia and the fact...
Shipping Australia gave evidence to the Productivity Commission’s inquiry into Australia’s Maritime Logistics systems last Friday.
Shipping Australia CEO, Capt. Melwyn Noronha, delivered an impassioned speech urging the Productivity Commission to change course on a variety of matters flagged in its draft report.
Specifically, at the hearing, we urged that there be regulation, governance...
Unfortunately there continues to be a container backlog, induced by industrial action, in Sydney at the moment. That backlog has been aggravated by recent bad weather. It may get worse given the likelihood of new industrial action.
Current status: congestion times and industrial action
Shipping Australia understands that, in Sydney, the current recovery time is now about two to three days at DP World Australia and is about 15 days at Patrick Terminals.
The...
Bad weather, a reckless campaign of nationally coordinated industrial action, infrastructure upgrades of all kinds, and a pandemic, have all contributed to creating grave disruptions to Australia’s container supply chain. Particularly in relation to the management of empty boxes.
Although little can be done about most of these contributing factors, holding the country to ransom by disrupting the supply chain through a nationally coordinated protected industrial action...
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