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Mobile Museum

The Nomadic Museum by Shigeru Ban combines the architect’s talent for meticulous work and green design into one incredible traveling exhibition. Using 148 shipping containers and massive paper tubes, the architect created a museum to feature a photography exhibition called Ashes and Snow by Gregory Colbert. The idea has been years in the making and exhibits not […]

A bad hair day

Australian Border Force (ABF) investigators have charged a 31-year-old Sydney man with importing 20kg of ephedrine concealed in hair brushes. On 17 June 2016, ABF officers targeted a parcel from China addressed to a residence in West Ryde, New South Wales. The officers examined the parcel of hair brushes which were found to have concealments […]

D-Day for SOLAS

Hopefully you were fast asleep as the clocked ticked over to midnight.  July 1st 2016.  We’ve been talking about it for years months and now it is finally here. Incase you have been living under a rock, or away from our blog, today is a special day for the maritime industry.  It’s the day that […]

Phil meets CBFCA new CEO

Earlier this month, Phil Gray, EES Customs Manager, was fortunate to meet with the new CEO of the Customs Brokers and Forwarders Council of Australia (CBFCA), Clare Murray. The location of the introduction was an informal lunch in South Perth along with a few other business members of the CBFCA. Clare Murray took over the […]

Singapore’s new automated guided vehicles

PSA Singapore has invested in 22 new automated guided vehicles for its container terminals as part of existing efforts to test and develop advanced port technologies. The new AGVs, which will be used to move containers between the quay side and the container yard completely without human drivers, are expected to be delivered in the […]

Largest vessel visits Gdansk

POLAND’s Port of Gdansk has been handling the world’s biggest containerships since August 2013 when the 18,270 TEU Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller made a call. The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller A year later, the size record was broken by China Shipping Container Lines, which put an impressive containership, CSCL Globe, into operation in 2014. The CSCL Globe […]

More Penalties for Importers

The 30th November 2014 saw the Illegal Logging Prohibition Regulation 2012 come into force. The Illegal Logging Prohibition Regulation 2012 is all about due diligence with importers of regulated timber or timber products needing to assess and manage the risk that the timber in their products has not been illegally logged before importing. Since the […]

SOLAS VGM Handbook

There’s less than two weeks to go before the new requirement to provide verified weighing of export containers is introduced, are you prepared for providing a Verified Gross Mass (VGM) for all your export containers? The WA Port Operations Task Force has put together an industry handbook, specifically targete+d to the West Australian export freight community, […]

The Country Action List (CAL)

The Department of Agriculture and Water Resources (the Department) targets containers on high risk sea cargo pathways; for example, containers originating in Giant African Snail countries and  countries identified as having documented high levels of contamination. These countries are included on a Country Action List (CAL). High risk pests include but are not limited to […]