Container terminal operators

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/

Congestion is causing vessel delays that are equal to removing ALL ultra-large container ships from the market

Pictured: rows and columns of containers in a stack. Photo: OlafPictures

Unprecedented congestion and the resulting delays to vessels have the effect of removing vast amounts of capacity from the world container shipping fleet, internationally respected maritime analyst company Sea-Intelligence has indicated.

Using Sea-Intelligence’s proprietary data, the company found that huge amounts of capacity are being soaked up by delays imposed on vessels. Approximately 25% of capacity on the...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/congestion-is-causing-vessel-delays-that-are-equal-to-removing-all-ultra-large-container-ships-from-the-market/

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/

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/

Dramatic vision of massive U.S. boxship congestion off Los Angeles

Pictured: containership congestion off the U.S. coast at Los Angeles; a screenshot taken from the footage posted by aviator Kevin E. You can watch the video yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hygdnqMGKLY

Containerships speckled across the sea, as far as the eye can see, is the dramatic vision off the U.S. coast at Los Angeles. Congestion is out of control in the U.S. and that’s why there are problems in Australia.

One set of footage has been provided by the U.S. Coast Guard. You can see it...

https://shippingaustralia.com.au/dramatic-vision-of-massive-u-s-boxship-congestion-off-los-angeles/

Victorian ports shake-up following independent review

A major over-haul of the Victorian ports sector is on the way following the completion of the Independent Review of the Victorian Ports System.

Although the review itself does not appear to have been released, an “Initial Government Response” is publicly available.

The top recommendation was that the Victorian Regional Channels Authority and the Victorian Ports Corporation (Melbourne) be subsumed into a new body, “Ports Victoria” (see the full story here).

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The review also found that...

https://shippingaustralia.com.au/victorian-ports-shake-up-following-independent-review/

Mythbusting: current events, costs, congestion and unsubstantiated allegations

Graphic: logistics; graphic by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

Recent industrial action has presented considerable challenges to maintaining the efficiency and low costs of the supply chain. There are a number of adverse consequences including, unfortunately, campaigns of disinformation.

Lingering effects of congestion

As previously explained, the lingering effects of industrial action has caused extensive congestion for ships coming into Port Botany. Ships and shipping companies have a lot of daily...

https://shippingaustralia.com.au/mythbusting-current-events-costs-congestion-and-unsubstantiated-allegations/

Extreme container disruption continues in Sydney despite industrial cease-fire

Ocean shipping and the landside container supply chain into and out of Sydney both remain extremely disrupted despite the ceasefire between the union and stevedores. Industrial action from a few weeks ago is the root-cause of the ongoing delays.

Shipping is fundamentally delayed; situation is not resolving quickly

Shipping Australia can confirm that there is currently a 21-day delay for some vessels calling at Patrick Terminals in Sydney and all vessel schedules are disrupted to some extent. For...

https://shippingaustralia.com.au/extreme-container-disruption-continues-in-sydney-despite-industrial-cease-fire/

Disruption from waterfront industrial action just gets worse and worse

Photo: Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

Industrial action on the waterfront is causing increasing disruption to the movement of ships and the movement of vital goods upon which Australian families rely.

At least two ship voyages have been greatly delayed at huge cost.

A five day delay

A ship was due to call at Sydney earlier this week. It was faced with a five-day delay because of protected industrial action. The approximate cost of a day’s delay for a container ship can be about $25,000 a day. A five...

https://shippingaustralia.com.au/disruption-from-waterfront-industrial-action-just-gets-worse-and-worse/

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