Terminal Access Charges ought to be governed by a mandatory industry code, the Productivity Commission (PC) has recommended in its final report on the Australian Maritime Logistics System.
The PC envisages that the Australian Treasury would be responsible for developing a landside charges code that would then be administered and enforced by the ACCC. A federal code is the PC’s preferred option as it would ensure...
Shipping Australia gave evidence to the Productivity Commission’s inquiry into Australia’s Maritime Logistics systems last Friday.
Shipping Australia CEO, Capt. Melwyn Noronha, delivered an impassioned speech urging the Productivity Commission to change course on a variety of matters flagged in its draft report.
Specifically, at the hearing, we urged that there be regulation, governance...
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 made an extensive submission to the Productivity Commission’s inquiry into Australia’s Maritime Logistics Systems.
There has been much commentary on ocean shipping and Australia’s maritime logistics system and our submission tackles much of this commentary head on.
Interested readers can review the submission here.
A draft report is due from the PC in late May; a second round of submissions...
As 2021 came to a close, the Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, announced a sweeping review of Australia’s maritime logistics system. The Productivity Commission has been tasked with this and will undertake an independent review into structural issues affecting the productivity of Australia’s maritime logistics system. This inquiry complements the earlier work by the Productivity Commission on supply chain...
Earlier today, a statement was released by the Federal Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, and the Minister for Trade, Dan Tehan, about the Productivity Commission’s review into the Australian maritime logistics system. Just as we were about to publish this item, Terms of Reference were published. A summary of the Terms of Reference is given below.
The media statement reads as follows:
The Morrison Government has tasked the...
Scott Morrison, the Australian Prime Minister, dropped somewhat of an unexpected announcement on the maritime industries earlier this week in a virtual address to the Australian Industry Group. In a speech covering a variety of topics he discussed various supply chain-related issues and announced a Productivity Commission inquiry into Australia’s maritime supply chains.
Shipping Australia welcomes this announcement. For the...
Australia’s shipping sector is resilient during the COVID pandemic. That’s a key finding from the Productivity Commission Vulnerable Supply Chains study, which was released earlier this week.
“The Australian shipping sector proved to be resilient” is what the study says in Box 2.4, fourth paragraph down.
The report also later concluded that: “Services...
https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/supply-chain-study-shipping-is-resilient-official/
Catherine de Fontenay, The University of Melbourne
Until COVID, Australians had a pretty safe assumption that global supply chains could supply more or less whatever they wanted.
And then it became hard to get sanitiser and masks and other kinds of personal protective equipment.
Most of those supply chains were quickly reestablished, but the sudden appearance of vulnerabilities prompted...
The supply of essential goods and services in Australia is not highly susceptible to a short-term disruption to the supply of imported goods, the Productivity Commission has found in its interim report. Vulnerability appears to be quite limited. The Productivity Commission has also found that firms are best placed to manage risk and warned against government crowding out private investment.
Initiated by the Federal...