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MUA will immediately end industrial action at Patrick Terminals

Industry bodies have received advice from Patrick Terminals that after a day and half of talks at the FWC (Fair Work Commission), the MUA (Maritime Union of Australia) announced it would immediately end industrial action at Patrick terminals in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Fremantle. While providing a temporary reprieve to hopefully assist industry to recover […]

World Maritime Day 2020

“Sustainable shipping for a sustainable planet” is the World Maritime theme for 2020. This will provide an opportunity to raise awareness of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and showcase the work that the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and its Member States are undertaking to achieve the targets. World Maritime Day 2020 – IMO […]

Queen’s Birthday Closure

We wish to advise that our office will be closed on Monday the 28th September in order to honour the Queen’s Birthday. We will re-open on Tuesday 29th September for all your shipping and logistics needs.

Australian Container Safety Launch

Freight & Trade Alliance (FTA), Container Transport Alliance Australia (CTAA), and the Australian Peak Shippers Association (APSA), have partnered with the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) to create the Safe Container Loading Practices & Heavy Vehicle Safety campaign. The campaign is part of the NHVR Heavy Vehicle Safety Initiative (HVSI) program funded by the Commonwealth […]

Industrial Action at Container Terminals

Please read the following as this is affecting all current deliveries, vessel schedules and upcoming containers for the foreseeable future until the current industrial action has been resolved. We are doing our best to communicate with our clients and transport providers, but the information and action taken by the wharves is changing every hour. EES […]

eCert exchange for New Zealand

Effective 31 August 2020, the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment has transitioned the current eCert exchange with New Zealand’s Ministry for Primary Industries (NZ MPI) to a paperless eCert exchange. This means NZ MPI will no longer issue original paper phytosanitary or sanitary certificates. The NZ exporter will provide importers and brokers with […]

Cathay Pacific August Stats

Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific and Cathay Dragon carried a total of 102,122 tonnes of cargo and mail in August, a decrease of 36.7 per cent compared to the same month last year. August’s revenue freight tonne kilometres fell 30.3 per cent year on year. The cargo and mail load factor increased 14.2 percentage points to […]

Sydney’s container congestion sparks anger

Sydney’s pile up of empties, sorely needed in China ports if liners would only take them there, are causing massive congestion in Botany Bay, reports Brisbane’s Australasian Transport News. Most container parks are at full capacity, while several closed to import de-hires. Thus container management has reached a crisis point, says Container Transport Alliance Australia […]

Immediate withdrawal of industrial action at DP World Sydney

We have received advice from DP World Australia that the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) will not be taking industrial action of any kind at their Port Botany terminal before 1 November 2020. We now watch with interest to see what action Patrick and Hutchison take to gain a similar period of business continuity that […]