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Keep ahead of the rush

The first newsletter from the West Australian Port Operations Taskforce (WAPOTF) regarding Peak Season Planning has been released. The newest edition is a timely one, with the chairman of the WAPOTF being interviewed this morning on ABC Radio. The below flyer has some fantastic ideas on how to deal with this busy season. Credit to […]

Laptops and a new building

The staff here at EES have been raising money for the Hekima Day Care in Tanzania for a few years now.  We are so pleased to see that the gold coin donations that we make every Friday make these children’s lives a little brighter. Recently Helen Hack, EES Director / Administration Quality, traveled to Tanzania […]

New Suez Canal trial run-through

A cargo ship is seen crossing through the New Suez Canal, Ismailia, Egypt, July 25, 2015. Image credit REUTERS/Stringer The first cargo ships passed through Egypt’s New Suez Canal on Saturday in a test-run before it opens next month, state media reported, 11 months after the army began constructing the $8 billion canal alongside the […]

‘Ice’ pipes importer fined over $17,000

The Australian Border Force (ABF) has successfully prosecuted and fined a Brisbane man over $17,000 for importing ‘ice’ pipes into Australia last year. In November 2014, former Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (ACBPS) officers at Brisbane Air Cargo detected the two consignments of ‘ice’ pipes, totalling 20,800 pipes in 104 packages. ACBPS officers subsequently […]

Customs re-branch launch

The Minister for Immigration and Border Protection Peter Dutton today announced that the highly successful Customs Watch programme would be re-branded as Border Watch under the new Australian Border Force. The Customs Brokers and Forwarders Council of Australia (CBFCA) attended the launch with other industry partners to hear the Minister reiterate the positive involvement of […]

Shape up or ship out

Malaysia ports being urged to prepare for larger vessels (image credit) Local port operators have been urged to upgrade their port capacity and infrastructure to accommodate ultra-large vessels in two years’ time when shipping companies are expected to take delivery of these behemoths of the sea. Making the call, NCB Holdings Bhd Group Managing Director […]

Too slow Singapore?

SINGAPORE’S container port, among the busiest in the world and reputed to be one of the most competitive, has come up against recent statistics that suggest it is behind its regional rivals in efficiency – at least on the face of it. Fresh data on berth productivity from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development […]

PSA International chief reflection

EVER wondered why the container is measured in twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) while the ships that carry them are measured in metres, mused Tan Chong Meng, CEO of Singapore’s global port operator, PSA International. You are right if you guessed it was an American invention, he said, writing in Singapore’s Straits Times. When Malcom McLean […]

Typhoon Nangka and Chan-hom

Typhoon Nangka is currently on a collision course with Japan, with the super typhoon expected to hit later today or tomorrow. Nangka’s maximum sustained winds are estimated to be 150 mph at this time, making Nangka the equivalent of a high-end Category 4 storm on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. Delays in shipping are expected […]