Biosecurity is vital to the health and welfare of Australia’s people, its environment and its agricultural sector. Shipping Australia agrees that biosecurity is fundamentally important to Australia.
The current pest of concern is the Khapra Beetle. The Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment has repeatedly talked of the cost to the agricultural industries of Khapra...
Andrew Tongue, Deputy Secretary and Head of Biosecurity Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, discusses biosecurity risks, shipping, mail, air and cargo. He also discusses new technologies and approaches to biosecurity risk management:
2020 brought changes no one could have predicted, with the global movement of people slowed to combat the biggest human biosecurity threat in a century. But the movement of goods has continued, and is now more important than...
https://shippingaustralia.com.au/vigilance-leads-to-strength-and-innovation-in-biosecurity/
The Federal Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment has warned the importing and shipping industries, along with everyone in the sea-container logistics and supply chain, that it is planning urgent action to counter the threat from Khapra Beetle.
Small beetle; big plant threat
Khapra Beetle is a...
https://shippingaustralia.com.au/dawe-ramps-up-action-against-khapra-beetle/
Urgent and drastic anti-Khapra Beetle action is being taken by the Federal Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment.
High risk plant products will be banned. Pest-free phytosanitary certificates from all countries will be demanded. Verification of pest-free statement may be demanded.
Treatments of all containers and empty boxes is under consideration but Shipping Australia has strongly opposed these options which would cause global container congestion and impose massive additional...
https://shippingaustralia.com.au/khapra-beetle-department-of-ag-imposes-drastic-measures-on-trade/
We are sad to advise industry that there is a growing problem worldwide with the “Khapra Beetle” (Trogoderma granarium). It’s a tiny little hairy larva and, as an adult, it is a reddish-brown oval beetle.
It’s a tiny bug. But it’s a big destroyer of grains and oilseeds. It also infests more than 96 different commodities.
The big risk countries are in Africa, the Middle East and South Asia. Unfortunately, Khapra Beetle is also an excellent and opportunistic hitchhiker that particularly likes to...
https://shippingaustralia.com.au/increasing-biosecurity-risk-from-voracious-plant-pest/