The draft report of the Productivity Commission’s Australian Maritime Logistics System is long, so we will be analysing it today, and later publishing selected items in our newsletter and on our website.
From the ocean shipping industry’s viewpoint, the draft report is somewhat of a curate’s egg (mostly good, partly adverse), but, pleasingly, the vast majority of the draft report aligns with...
Shipping Australia has lodged a submission with the Victorian Essential Services Commission (ESC) objecting to a price hike plan by the private operators of the Port of Melbourne.
In its application to the Victorian ESC, the port operators propose upping prices to fund an infrastructure upgrade. The Port of Melbourne would thereby be enabled to handle bigger ships.
Need for port upgrades was predictable and predictedShipping...
https://shippingaustralia.com.au/private-operator-should-fund-port-of-melbourne-upgrade/