The WA Government has, in a letter to Shipping Australia, demonstrated a gross ignorance of, or indifference to, the point at which two of the most important industries in the Western Australian economy intersect: namely ocean-transport and the iron ore industry.
Imposition of an unfair and outrageous chargeEffective from 1 March 2021, an unfair cash grab will be brought into existence by the Pilbara Ports Authority, which has decreed that vessels...
Michael Phillips, a former Chairman of Shipping Australia and the former managing director of the Australian arm of ship agency Hetherington Kingsbury, writes about the Port Hedland Voluntary Buy-Back Scheme Charge on shipping:
Dear Sirs
I would like to think BIMCO and other associated bodies will also be taking up the cudgels over this matter.
Does this mean the whole of Port Hedland will also be closed (residential, commercial, the Hospital, Hotels, Motels etc) and will all be relocated to...
Pilbara Ports Authority (PPA) has introduced a new cash grab, er, port charge at the Port of Port Hedland.
Effective from 1 March 2021, the PPA has decreed that vessels exporting iron ore that use the inner harbour of Port Hedland must pay a “Port Hedland Voluntary Buy-Back Scheme” charge.
There is a sliding scale of charges based on a combination of a vessel’s gross registered tonnage and its movements. Charge-liable ships will be slugged once on the way...
https://shippingaustralia.com.au/new-year-new-cash-grab-in-western-australia/
Container shipping line ANL has announced a regular direct connection between Singapore and Port Hedland for break-bulk, containerised and out-of-gauge cargo.
Sailing from Singapore as of 30 October, the ANL service, which is called “The Pilbara Connection”, will help reduce the length of the WA supply chain, reduce road haulage and help shippers and consignees to import and export more easily from remote north west Australia.
The service will sail from Singapore ever 20 days and offers an eight...
https://shippingaustralia.com.au/anl-sets-up-singapore-port-hedland-route/
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By David Stringer and Krystal Chia (Bloomberg) — Authorities in Australia are contending with a rising number of coronavirus cases among the crew of a bulk carrier anchored off Port Hedland, the key export hub for the country’s A$100 billion ($70 billion) iron ore sector. A total of 17 of 21...
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Pilbara Ports Authority recently published its monthly shipping statistics for December 2019, marking a delivery throughput of 64.6 million tonnes (Mt). That means a 2% increase in comparison with December’s throughput for the previous year.
For the moment, the total throughput for the 2019/20 financial year is 356.2Mt, meaning a slight growth of 2% compared to the same period last year.
Moreover, The Port of Port Hedland managed to achieve a monthly throughput of 47.9Mt, of which 47.3Mt came...
https://safety4sea.com/pilbara-ports-authority-marks-2-throughput-increase/
By Krystal Chia and Shery Ahn (Bloomberg) –Iron ore exports from Australia’s Port Hedland, the largest bulk-export terminal, are expected to hit a record as producers in the nation’s mining heartland raise output, according to the Pilbara Ports Authority. Cargoes of the steelmaking material shipped...