News

As the BMSB season hits full swing, you are reminded that the Department of Agriculture has issued some recent updates applicable to fumigators and logistics providers offering container inspection and fumigation services:

Freight & Trade Alliance (FTA) is maintaining close contact with our UK counterpart in terms of Brexit developments (yes another FTA – the Freight Transport Association). The FTA UK have kindly provided “No Deal Readiness Dashboard 

CTAA has formalised its submission to the Port of Melbourne Pricing & Access Review being conducted by Deloitte Access Economics for the Victorian Government

CTAA has welcomed the extension of operating hours at MCS/Qube Cooks River depot in Sydney from today (7 October), but insists that 24 hours should be the goal.

For domestic pick-ups & deliveries is as follows:

Sydney – 15.75%
Melbourne – 15.75%
Brisbane – 15.75%

Freight & Trade Alliance (FTA) and the Australian Peak Shippers Association (APSA) have received direct correspondence from the Hon Michael McCormack, Deputy Prime Minister / Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development seeking input on reform of Australia’s coastal trading framework.

Melbourne –  the Victorian government commissioned a Port Pricing and Access Review led by Deloitte Access – a summary of the formal submission prepared by Freight & Trade Alliance (FTA) and the Australian Peak Shippers Association (APSA) is available HERE.  A meetimg is scheduled with Roma Britnell MP (Shadow Minister for Ports and Freight and Member for Warrnambool) in Melbourne on 12 November 2019 to elaborate on matters raised in the FTA / APSA submission.

Maersk is pleased to advise that our phase in / phase out plan has been finalised for the new Asia – Australia network, comprising of the Dragon, Komodo, and Cobra services. Please find below details of the last sailings on the existing Boomerang network and the first sailings on the new services:

A rare snail never before detected in Australia has slammed the brakes on 900 brand-new Mercedes-Benz vehicles worth more than $50 million – after being stopped from entering the country.