CONTAINER PORTS

ContainerPort Group adds drayage capacity

Drayage trucks waiting at a rail crossing

Trucking and intermodal drayage company ContainerPort Group this week announced the addition of newly launched Bristol Transportation to its dray capacity network. The carrier will provide service in the port markets of Chicago, Charleston, South Carolina, and Savannah, Georgia.

“Expanding the CPG network with the opening of Bristol Transportation in these strategic locations will help us cater to the shift we are seeing in diverting cargo away from the West Coast and pushing volumes up in the...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/containerport-group-adds-drayage-capacity

Just how extreme is China’s lead in the container port business?

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China is the world’s largest exporter of containerized goods, produces eight of every 10 new containers, is the leading builder of container ships and operates the fourth-largest liner company. It should come as no surprise that China overwhelmingly dominates the global container port rankings — and with ocean trade now surging, that its port tally has reached a new peak.

Alphaliner published its annual rankings of the world’s top 30 container ports by volume last week. Of the top 10, nine are...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/just-how-extreme-is-chinas-lead-in-the-container-port-business

Industrial umpire to rule in Patrick vs MUA dispute

Pictured: containers stacked in a yard. Photo credit: Chuttersnap via Unsplash.

Patrick Terminals has today advised that there will be a three-day hearing at the Fair Work Commission to determine whether the current Patrick Enterprise Bargaining Agreement can be terminated.

In a statement from Patrick today, the terminal operator noted that it is “evident that the current agreement was no longer fit for purpose”.

The stevedore pointed to a number of operational restrictions within the current...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/industrial-umpire-to-rule-in-patrick-vs-mua-dispute/

Key stevedoring results 2020–21

Pictured: a container terminal with box ships being worked (upper right). Photo credit: Chuttersnap via Unsplash.

We now know a little bit more about the stevedoring market in Australia following the publication of this year’s Australian Competition & Consumer Commission’s Container Monitoring report.

Australian Stevedores

Total revenues: AUD$1,665 million

Total costs: AUD$1,356 million

Profit margin: 20.8% (up 10.9 percentage points)
(Earnings before interest, tax and amortisation as a percentage of...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/key-stevedoring-results-2020-21/

C.H. Robinson announces drayage congestion surcharges

Port congestion leading to new surcharges

Freight broker C.H. Robinson said it would begin levying drayage surcharges in September due to worsening congestion at U.S. ports.

“As you are aware, the past year has brought about unprecedented challenges for the transportation industry. Recently, it has reached a breaking point,” a Thursday client advisory read.“ As a result, international drayage carriers servicing several ports/ramps through the U.S. have implemented congestion/peak season surcharges.”

Beginning Wednesday, a surcharge of...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/ch-robinson-announces-drayage-congestion-surcharges

ACCC appeals Federal Court’s container terminal decision

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Australia’s competition watchdog is appealing against the decision of the Federal Court in the NSW container terminal competition case.

At the time of privatisation of the ports of Newcastle, Botany and Kembla, the State Government had agreed for 50 years to compensate the operator of Port Botany & Port Kembla if container traffic at the soon-to-be rival Port of Newcastle rose above a certain threshold. The agreement was contained in documents known as “Port...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/accc-appeals-federal-courts-container-terminal-decision/

Ongoing industrial action is reckless and inappropriate

Pictured: ocean shipping containers in a stack. Photo: Dale Staton via UnSplash.

Shipping Australia condemns the ongoing industrial action on the waterfront.

The vast majority of Australia’s consumer and business goods (as opposed to commodities such as iron ore) are imported or exported in ocean-going container ships which are mostly berthed, discharged and loaded at our main capital city container ports. The actual cargo operations at these ports are handled by the container terminal...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/ongoing-industrial-action-is-reckless-and-inappropriate/

Dreadful performance of Australia’s container ports is revealed

Pictured: a stack of ocean shipping containers. Photo credit: Dale Staton via UnSplash.

Australia’s container ports are near-completely failing Australian exporters, importers, shippers, shipping lines and society in general because they have terrible on-the-job performance.

That’s the only conclusion that can be drawn from a recent assessment of comparable container port performance released by the World Bank, in association with internationally respected analyst firm IHS Markit.

All of our...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/dreadful-performance-of-australias-container-ports-is-revealed/

Australian box ports present serious risk to uninterrupted supply chains

Pictured: an example of a busy container port. Photo credit Chuttersnap via Unsplash

Australian box ports present one of the greatest risks of disruption to Australia’s supply chains. Specifically, the events of the last 18 months, including the surge in trade, have demonstrated that our ports just don’t have the capability to handle upsets.

Submission to supply chain study highlights box port risks

Shipping Australia highlighted this risk in our recent submission to the Productivity Commission’s...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/australian-box-ports-present-serious-risk-to-uninterrupted-supply-chains/

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