Exporters in New South Wales are bound to face a severe shortage of empty containers as the Empty Container Incentive Scheme at Port Botany increasingly and unnecessarily aggravates a short-supply.
There is a backlog of boxes to be unpacked and moved in New South Wales. This backlog was caused by the recent pandemic outbreak in NSW when Omicron ran wild. Infections caused a huge labour shortage in the stevedoring...
Exporters of farm produce will be – and likely are being – hit particularly badly by a policy imposed on the supply chain by the Sydney-based private container port operator.
The port operator has imposed a requirement – without consultation and without any room for discussion – that ocean shipping lines must hit a near 1:1 import / export ratio for empty containers. The port operator basically wants one empty...
Shipping Australia recently wrote to The DCN, criticising the private port operator, NSW Ports, for its ill-thought out and grossly hypocritical “Empty Container Incentive Scheme”:
Dear Editor:
With reference to the article “New scheme at Port Botany to tackle container problem,” in The DCN of 25 May 2021, Shipping Australia is of the view that the new empty container incentive scheme is rather ill-thought...