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1-Stop connects containers

News1 Feb 2013

Australian ICT provider 1-Stop Connections has unveiled a new web-based application that it claims has the potential to improve shipping lin...

Thumbs down for Oz safety code

News1 Nov 2012

Protest marches in major Australian ports at the end of October appear to have done little to convince shipowners and stevedores to embrace ...

Tax to bite Melbourne users

News1 Feb 2012

Port users are up in arms about a new Port Licence Fee (PLF), due to come into effect on 1 July, which will see almost all sea and shoreside...

Delays at Port Botany becoming endemic

News1 Sep 2011

Shipping lines are becoming resigned to seemingly insuperable berth congestion at the existing Port Botany container terminals ahead of Hutc...

DPW Botany woes persist…

News1 Dec 2010

Almost a month after DP World was forced to close its Port Botany terminal to all shipping for 24 hours in an attempt to clear onground cont...

…as government acts on landside congestion

News1 Dec 2010

New South Wales Treasurer and Ports Minister Eric Roozendaal has announced that the longthreatened regulation of landside operations at Port...

Melbourne ECP hours extended

News1 Sep 2010

Most of Melbourne’s empty container parks (ECPs) will extend opening from nine to 12 hours a day under an agreement reached by a new multi...

Sydney still seeking landside relief

News1 May 2010

Australia’s number two containerport is still grappling with ways to keep landside container logistics performance at levels that ensure m...

Melbourne seeks solution to empty container park mess

News1 Mar 2010

Warring parties will come together in a series of working groups in an effort to resolve the increasingly-fraught issues surrounding Melbour...

Oz pursues port info system

News1 Jan 2010

Container lines, through representative body Shipping Australia (SAL), are backing efforts to establish a port community information system ...

Breakbulk trades neglected in Oz

News1 Oct 2009

A landmark study into the status and requirements of breakbulk trades in Australia has concluded they are the “poor cousins” of shipping...

Port Botany put on notice

News1 Oct 2008

The New South Wales Government has effectively told the Port Botany container logistics chain to improve its performance or face a variety o...

Melbourne overflowing with boxes

News1 Oct 2008

Australia’s largest container port handled a daily average of more than 6,600 containers in August to set a new national monthly volume re...

Freo looks set to lose out

News1 Sep 2008

Fremantle will lose container, vehicle and general cargo trades from its Inner Harbour if the newly elected Liberal/National government impl...

Australian ports manning the barricades

News1 Jul 2008

Major Australian ports are under siege like never before. But it’s not from just quayside and landside congestion, it’s from the ABS (an...

Overweight boxes are heavy concern

News1 Dec 2007

Peak body Shipping Australia Ltd (SAL) is mounting a campaign to increase awareness of under-declaration of container weights, just as carri...