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Books on Shipping

We here at EES love a good book dedicated to the world of shipping.  We’ve got a few of these babies on our shelf and thought we’d share what we are reading with you. Here are 5 of our favourite shipping books. 1. The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the […]

Meet the Team #6

Today is our sixth installment of our popular Meet the Team series!  We’d like to introduce you to one of our funniest team members, Helen Hack… Take it away Helen… Want to check out some of the other team members profiled in our series? Phil Gray Brian Hack Tara Blundell Michelle Johnston Amanda Bradfield   […]

Timber and timber products

Back in February, we advised of a new requirement that was pending for importers of timber products.  Head to our website to read the full post here. The Department of Agriculture and Water Resources (Quarantine) have now provided industry with an implementation date of the 1st September 2017. Please see the following received directly from […]

Creepy crawly cargo caught out

A biosecurity sneaker has been sprung attempting to smuggle a dangerous combination of live reptiles and arachnids in a box marked ‘2 pair shoes’. Australian Border Force (ABF) officers in Melbourne x-rayed an international mail consignment from Northern Europe on 14 March and saw there were reptiles, and consulted biosecurity staff from the Department of […]

Exporting and FTA’s

Today we’d like to discuss with you exporting and free trade agreements. Australia has a number of free trade agreements currently in place with many different countries around the world. The Korea, Japan and China Free Trade Agreements alone have been massive game changers for exporters, along with importers, in Australia. Free Trade Agreements are […]

A day in the life..

Our good friends at Fremantle Ports recently published an article in their newsletter entitled “Day in the life of a container ship”. We loved this story so much, we thought that we would share it with you.  This interesting article gives some fantastic insider information on how vessels operate, what cargo they are discharging and […]

ANZAC Day Closure

Please kindly be advised that EES Shipping will be closed on Tuesday the 25th April for ANZAC Day. We will re-open Wednesday the 26th for all your shipping and logistic needs.

Aussie Exports – our products sent worldwide

Have you ever wondered what products are on the top of Australia’s exporting list? Lately we’ve been checking out the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s website  – there’s a huge wealth of information right at our fingertips. So here we go, Australia’s top ten goods and services exported: Iron Ores and Concentrates Coal Natural […]

Import Trade Stats – Fremantle

A solid throughput was recorded at Fremantle Port for the month of February.  The records showed that the amount of containers being moved via the port was slightly down from from the previous month, but average throughput was actually up. Total container throughput at the port in January 2017 was 56,324 TEU (twenty foot containers), […]