Productivity Commission shows fatal flaws of the awful ‘national fleet’ concept

Pictured: Parliament House in Canberra. Do we really want the Federal Government running any part of the shipping industry? Photo credit: “Social Estate” via Unsplash.

In the recent “Vulnerable Supply Chains” report (something of a misnomer as the key finding was that supply chains are not, in fact, vulnerable), the Productivity Commission has pointed out the extreme costs of a “national fleet”.

Although most of the inquiry looked into the vulnerability (or, rather, the lack thereof) of goods in...

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Supply chain study: shipping is resilient – OFFICIAL

Pictured: a large ocean-going container ship. Picture credit: Ian Taylor via Unsplash. Note: the livery of the ship in this image has been altered.

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/

Mid-COVID, our investigation finds few vulnerabilities in Australia’s supply chains

Pictured: a conceptual representation of the logistics industries. Photo credit Gerd Altmann via Pixabay.

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...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/mid-covid-our-investigation-finds-few-vulnerabilities-in-australias-supply-chains/

Singapore transport minister describes shipping as “resilient”; calls for action to tackle port congestion; criticises “just-in-time”

Pictured: Chee Hong Tat, Minister for Singapore’s Ministry of Transport. Picture: supplied by Singapore’s Ministry of Transport.

Singapore’s Minister for Transport, Chee Hong Tat, recently addressed the audience at the recent “Leadership Insights Live Event”, held by the International Chamber of Shipping. Singapore is home to one of the world’s busiest container-focused seaports.

He noted that the World Trade Organization recorded global merchandise trade as falling by 5.3% in 2020, the 2021...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/singapore-transport-minister-describes-shipping-as-resilient-calls-for-action-to-tackle-port-congestion-criticises-just-in-time/

Supply chain: UNCTAD data, once again, proves that liner shipping is adaptable and resilient to disruption

Pictured: a large ocean-going container ship. Picture credit: Ian Taylor via Unsplash. Note: the livery of the ship in this image has been altered.

Liner shipping connectivity from Australia to the rest of the world has massively rebounded since the onset of the COVID pandemic, according to the latest data from the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).

UNCTAD has published a “Liner Shipping Connectivity Index” since 2006 which enables the connectivity of liner shipping can be assessed...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/supply-chain-unctad-data-once-again-proves-that-liner-shipping-is-adaptable-and-resilient-to-disruption/

Australian box ports present serious risk to uninterrupted supply chains

Pictured: an example of a busy container port. Photo credit Chuttersnap via Unsplash

Australian box ports present one of the greatest risks of disruption to Australia’s supply chains. Specifically, the events of the last 18 months, including the surge in trade, have demonstrated that our ports just don’t have the capability to handle upsets.

Submission to supply chain study highlights box port risks

Shipping Australia highlighted this risk in our recent submission to the Productivity Commission’s...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/australian-box-ports-present-serious-risk-to-uninterrupted-supply-chains/

Evidence from UNCTAD proves that the sea-borne supply chain is adaptable and resilient

Pictured: a container ship approaches shore. Photo credit: Public Domain Images / Pixabay

Dramatic new evidence from the UN Conference on Trade and Development shows just how much the demand for goods has soared because of COVID-19. And, crucially, despite what you may have read in various places over the last few days, it provides evidence that the goods supply chain (read: container shipping) is highly resilient.

What is supply chain resilience?

“Supply chain resilience has been defined as the...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/evidence-from-unctad-proves-that-the-sea-borne-supply-chain-is-adaptable-and-resilient/

Interim supply chain study indicates Australia has limited vulnerability

Pictured: goods for sale in a supermarket; photo credit: Hanson Lu via Unsplash

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...

https://shippingaustralia.com.au/interim-supply-chain-study-indicates-australia-has-limited-vulnerability/

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