Shipping Australia thoroughly supports the comments about unions made by the Prime Minister Scott Morrison recently, on 15 November 2021, at St Marys, NSW.
In response to a reporter’s question about supply chain problems, the PM said:
“it’s very important that we...
Early in the evening yesterday*, the shipping and trade industries were stunned by news of a sweeping range of aggressive strikes by the Maritime Union of Australia. A series of rolling 12 hour strikes are due every Monday, Wednesday and Friday for the first two weeks of November.
There...
https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/christmas-crippling-strikes-announced-by-the-waterfront-union/
Shipping Australia condemns the ongoing industrial action on the waterfront.
The vast majority of Australia’s consumer and business goods (as opposed to commodities such as iron ore) are imported or exported in ocean-going container ships which are mostly berthed, discharged and loaded at our main capital city container ports. The actual cargo operations at these ports are handled by the container terminal...
https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/ongoing-industrial-action-is-reckless-and-inappropriate/
Towage provider Svitzer has welcomed the decision of the Maritime Union of Australia to withdraw its protected industrial action in ports covered by Svitzer Australia’s National Towage Enterprise Agreement as of midday, Wednesday 20 January 2021.
The following notices were withdrawn from midday yesterday:
https://shippingaustralia.com.au/withdrawal-of-protected-industrial-action-at-svitzer-ports/
Notice of a new Protected Industrial Action banning the performance of work on all ships has been given by the Maritime Union of Australia to DPWA.
The new industrial action runs from December to early January and affects the DPWA terminal in Fremantle.
Work restrictions include; various bans on employees working on tasks above their normal grade, overtime, shift extensions, accepting late call-ins and ceasing...
Today’s two-day hearing before the Fair Work Commission to terminate or suspend the Maritime Union of Australia’s industrial action at Patrick Terminals has been cancelled following an agreement for further talks between the parties.
On Friday, 23 October, the MUA provided undertakings to the Fair Work Commission that committed the union to not organise or notify any industrial action against Patrick Terminals before 1 December 2020. Patrick Terminals noted, however, that there is the...
https://shippingaustralia.com.au/union-patrick-fair-work-hearing-cancelled-pending-further-talks/
Ocean shipping and the landside container supply chain into and out of Sydney both remain extremely disrupted despite the ceasefire between the union and stevedores. Industrial action from a few weeks ago is the root-cause of the ongoing delays.
Shipping is fundamentally delayed; situation is not resolving quickly
Shipping Australia can confirm that there is currently a 21-day delay for some vessels calling at Patrick Terminals in Sydney and all vessel schedules are disrupted to some extent. For...
Cessation of industrial action at DP World Australia terminals around the country is welcomed by Shipping Australia.
Yesterday evening, the terminal operator informed industry that an in-principle enterprise agreement had been reached for the next three years at the DPWA Terminal in Port Botany, Sydney.
Of great importance is the news that no protected industrial action will take place at DPWA in Sydney and that industrial action has also been withdrawn at DPWA terminals in Brisbane, Fremantle...
Shipping Australia condemns the waterfront industrial action that has caused such severe disruption that liner shipping companies are increasingly being forced to reduce their services to and from Australia.
News has come that the increasing disruption has forced a shipping line to stop taking bookings so as to avoid the long idling of containers and to minimize uncertainty for customers’ supply chain management.
Even if the Fair Work Commission were to come to a speedy decision on the current...
https://shippingaustralia.com.au/industrial-action-causes-widespread-liner-service-disruption/
An application to the Fair Work Commission by container terminal operator Patrick Terminals to terminate industrial action is strongly supported by Shipping Australia.
“Any disruption to trade at our ports causes harm to Australian businesses, consumers and our broader economy”, Shipping Australia chief executive officer Rod Nairn said. “This round of waterfront industrial action during a global pandemic and a national economic crisis is reckless, grossly irresponsible and utterly inappropriate.
“...