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...
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...
A private venture fund has invested in a supply chain management company with technology that could help shippers and rail companies better utilize empty auto railcars on return trips.
GameAbove Capital said Tuesday it has taken an equity stake in Pro-Tech Group, a company specializing in transportation, warehousing and logistics solutions. Both companies are located in Michigan.
Pro-Tech’s technology consists of a patented freight container loading system in which a bi-directional loading...
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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...
https://shippingaustralia.com.au/current-events-container-hire-and-management-of-empties/