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And the winners are …

  The end of last week was an exciting time for EES Shipping with the annual Lloyd’s List Australian Shipping & Maritime Industry Awards being held at the picturesque Darling Harbour in Sydney. EES Shipping Pty Ltd was named as a finalist for the Freight Forwarder of the Year category.  This is also the same […]

Unlocking Asia

As a nation, Australia is linking with Asia in more ways than ever before. It’s a development opening up a wealth of opportunities for the business community in the region, particularly small- and medium-sized companies. Business leaders from around the country came together recently to discuss opportunities. Below are five insights they shared. 1. The […]

Shanghai Port – Global Leader in Shipping?

Despite being the World’s Largest Container Port (in throughput) Shanghai is struggling to become a leader in shipping services also. Trailing behind the world’s leaders in services isn’t where the port wishes to be, hoping that within five years they can join the big guns to become one of the leaders of the pack. So […]

Industrial style furniture

It seems as though it’s not just us, but the entire world that is loving the industrial look of shipping container furniture at the moment. It’s a very now trend, and hopefully one that sticks around for awhile. We’ve had a few people contact us about our posts on these awesome pieces, whilst unfortunately we […]

Patricks / MUA Stop Work Meeting – Fremantle Terminal

RE: Patricks / Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) Stop Work Meeting – Fremantle Terminal Authorised MUA 1.5 Hour Stop Work 16 November 2015 & AGM 4 Hour Stop Work 24 November 2015 Patricks has just announced the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) have arranged a 1.5 hour stop work on Monday the 16th November 2015 […]

20kgs of coke seized from cruise ship entering Aus

Three men have been charged with importing cocaine into Australia on a cruise vessel after Australian Border Force (ABF) and Australian Federal Police (AFP) officers seized around 20 kilograms of cocaine on Friday (November 6). Acting on intelligence provided by the Drug Enforcement Administration and the US Department of Homeland Security Investigations, ABF officers boarded […]

Exports of infant formula

It’s getting tougher and tougher out there for mums to get their hands on the infant formula that their child needs. The demand for formula in China has seen shelves in supermarkets across Australia be stripped of products, making new mums a lot more tense than they already are. The Department of Agriculture and Water […]

Shanghai Port logs first quarterly profit fall

The evidence of China’s economic slowdown has become evident as Shanghai Port, the world’s busiest container port, has reported it’s first fall in quarterly net profit in over a year. Shanghai Port recorded a third quarter net profit of 1.4 billion yuan ($220.29 million), down 18.3 percent from the same period a year earlier, it […]

Melbourne Cup Day 2015

Melbourne Cup Day 2015 was celebrated in it’s usual style here at EES.  Ladies came to work all frocked up, dressed in a variety of outfits.  The men of the office were diverse in their clothing choice. But it wasn’t about the get up you were wearing, it was all about the ney-neys on this […]