Ms Gina Cass-Gottlieb, the chair of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission, has warned that Australia’s waterfront work practices and quayside industrial action are disrupting supply chains. These are contributing to the relatively poor performance of Australian ports.
“Any solutions to these challenges should aim to minimise the adverse impact of restrictive work practices and industrial actions...
Gina Cass-Gottlieb, the chair of the competition watchdog, has called for the regulation of container ports so as to boost competition. She also called for port performance monitoring.
She told delegates to the Ports Australia conference earlier this week that “proper regulation to compensate for a lack of...
Gina Cass-Gottlieb, the chair of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission has pinpointed why the supply chain has been so disrupted these last few year. Ports, germs, governments, is the simple answer.
After first paying tribute the “invisible industry” of container shipping, which is a “clockwork-like system” that moves trillions of dollars’ worth of goods and drives the global economy, Ms...