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KAFTA boosting Aussie exports

Australia has recorded strong increases in agricultural exports across the board after the first six months of the Korea-Australia Free Trade Agreement (KAFTA). Minister for Agriculture, Barnaby Joyce, said tariff cuts gained under KAFTA were boosting agriculture exports, Australian jobs and farmgate returns and were another powerful reminder of how critical free trade deals including […]

Cyber Security Awareness

On Tuesday 8th September Brian Hack (EES Director / General Manager) and Shaun Hack (Sales/Accounts Support) attended an seminar on the ever-important subject of Cyber Security.  Held at the prestigious Western Australia Club, Brian and Shaun listened to guest speakers Gary Gardiner (Fortinet) and Keiren Cook (Kaspersky Lab) discuss the latest threat to company data […]

AMSA warns of poison gas canisters washing up on local beaches

Toxic aluminium phosphide – used as rat poison – is washing up on beaches in the Torres Strait, elsewhere on the Queensland coast, in New South Wales, South Australia and Tasmania, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority warned late this afternoon. Aluminium phosphide is imported into Australia from China and Africa and “the unused nature of […]

Four container ship disasters

Who doesn’t like to see a cool picture of a shipping disaster?  Today, however, we’re giving you an insight on how some of the top container ship catastrophes have occurred (we’ll even throw in some photos for the full effect!) Number one: 17 June 2013 Make a wish – The top spot would certainly need […]

Production Assist Costs

WHAT ARE PRODUCTION ASSIST COSTS? Sometimes a purchaser (person buying goods with the intent to import them to Australia) provides goods, materials or services either free of charge or at a reduced cost to use in the production of the imported goods. The value of these goods, materials or services is known as the Production […]

Tianjin Explosion Losses

Explosions in the Chinese port of Tianjin last month would lead to cargo losses of at least $1.5 billion, and were having a “significant impact” on the marine insurance sector, a trade body said on Tuesday. “We are expecting to see cargo losses of at least $1.5 billion, with some reports stating that the final […]

French Flags Largest Ship Enters Service

French shipping company CMA CGM has put into service the 400-meter-long CMA CGM Bourgainville, the world’s largest containership sailing under the French flag. The containership, delivered by Samsung Heavy Industries on August 26th, is the fourth vessel in CMA CGM Group’s 18,000 TEU series of containerships named after famous explorers. The vessel has now entered […]

Dangerous goods

With the devastating images and stories coming out of Tianjin from last month’s explosions, it has forced the maritime industry (among the others) to ensure that all practices surrounding the handling of hazardous goods be reviewed. What are dangerous goods? ‘Dangerous goods‘ are materials or items with hazardous properties which, if not properly controlled, present […]

Trick or Treat?

  For us, Halloween is nothing more than a harmless night of freaky costumes, zombie makeup and plastic spiders in cotton wool webs –  but in Mombasa, Kenya it unleashes real fear. A few weeks ago a container from China arrived in the Port of Mombasa – the contents of which terrified the locals. The […]