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Trucking industry should bear its full costs; further subsidies for trucking is bad policy

18 November 2022

^{Pictured: a row of trucks prime movers. Photo credit: Dale Staton from Unsplash.}

Australia isn’t getting the best deal from its trucking industry. Trucking is heavily subsidised, it is polluting, and it is dangerous – many Australians are killed and injured in heavy truck accidents each year.

We don’t think it’s good policy to give yet more subsidies to this industry at the further expense of all other Australians.

But that’s exactly what trucking industry executives, shippers (who hire...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/trucking-industry-should-bear-its-full-costs-further-subsidies-for-trucking-is-bad-policy/

DAFF releases update on pratique processes

2 September 2022

^{Pictured: a conceptual representation of different variants of the COVID-causing virus, SARS-CoV-2. Graphic: colour modified by Shipping Australia of the original by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.}

Conditions on the pratique section of the Biosecurity Status Document have been updated with the legislative requirements of the Biosecurity Act 2015, according to a new Import Industry Advice Notice (IIAN 165-2022) from the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry.

Changes...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/daff-releases-update-on-pratique-processes/

Last Phase of 2020 Sulphur Cap Countdown Begins

30 July 2019

International Maritime Organisation’s global 0.50% sulphur cap regulation will come into effect on January 1st 2020.
The sulphur limit in fuel oil used in ships operating outside ECAs will be reduced to 0.50% from the current 3.50% and is in effect since 2012.
If SOx limit is not reduced for ships from 2020, that would contribute to air pollution leading to more than 570,000 premature deaths worldwide between 2020 and 2025.
New regulation is also set to impact the global economy, as companies...

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