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Truckie on meth caught in blitz

  ^^A driver is breath-tested at the road block. He was cleared. A truck driver tested positive to methamphetamine barely two hours into a WA Police heavy vehicle blitz yesterday which uncovered a litany of road dangers including bald tyres and unsecured loads. The man was charged with driving with a prescribed illicit drug after […]

Dangerous weapons seized

The Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (ACBPS) is warning importers about the dangers of trying to bring prohibited weapons into Australia. ACBPS officers, with support from Victoria Police, executed warrants in Melbourne yesterday (13 May 2015) as part of an investigation into the alleged importation of various illegal weapons. The investigation began in March, […]

The CMA CGM Kerguelen

The CMA CGM Kerguelen, named after the 18th-century French navigator Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen de Trémarec, this container ship is the third largest container carrier in the world. There are some amazing facts floating around on this vessel: As long as five jumbo jets. Can carry the weight of 200,000 transit vans. Is the UK’s largest […]

Australian Customs and the budget

Customs will never dominate the headlines on Australian budget night, but this does not mean that there are not measures in the budget that impact the customs and global trade community.  Buried away in the budget papers are increases in penalties, increases in fees paid by importers and interesting predictions about the level of duty […]

China’s major ports benefiting from continued economic growth

  We maintain our cautious view for China’s shipping sector. China’s economic growth in the coming decade will be much slower than in the last, as the savings rate declines, the economic liberalisation process slows, and population growth falls. These dynamics will result in real GDP growth averaging 6.0% over the next decade as opposed […]

How Singapore’s port helped change the country’s economy

Singapore is crucial for shipping in Fremantle with a vast majority of cargo transhipping via this port. The port of Singapore has played a significant role in the development of Singapore, helping the Republic become a first world economy in one generation. The maritime industry currently contributes about 7 per cent to Singapore’s GDP, or […]

India’s first container home

Here at EES, we love shipping containers. They are the core of our industry with shipping moving up to 90% of the world’s cargo. We’ve shown you library’s made from recycled shipping containers, art displayed in shipping containers, how reusing shipping containers has assisted the homeless and even how they are helping with the Ebola […]

Mandatory box weigh-ins start July 2016, threatens to disrupt cargo flow

MANDATORY container weigh-ins pose big problems for smooth cargo flow when they come into force in July 2016, a recent multimodal conference in Birmingham has been told, reports Lloyd’s List. As ships grow bigger – with 24,000 TEUers (twenty equivalent unit) on the drawing boards – the problem of keeping seafreight flowing becomes acute when […]

New $1.8 Billion Singapore Mega Port

The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) has signed a milestone contract for the construction of the first phase of a new $1.82 billion mega port in Singapore. The contract was awarded to a joint venture between the Dredging International Asia Pacific Ltd., a subsidiary of Belgium’s DEME Group, and South Korea’s Daelim. The […]