
December 2020
- Merry Christmas from the Management and Team at AvantiFM!
- Industry Update
- Import, Export cost goes up as freight rates rise
- Biggest weather related cargo loss in history
- Fears more Australian industries will be affected by China’s trade restrictions
- Agriculture trade matters, December 2020
- Air CTO’s – Christmas/New Year hours
- Tasmanian man charged over alleged importation of dozens of child-like sex doll parts
- NSW man charged over 200KG of Meth importation into Melbourne
- Pacific agreement for loser and economic relations (PACER PLUS) enters into force 13th December 2020
- Port of Townsville awards channel upgrade contract
- 450KG of MDMA found in excavator from UK
- Industry Update
- COVID-19 Update
- Australian Border Force and Singapore Partner on block chain trial to boost trade efficiency
- Port of Newcastle ships first major wheat volume since 2018
- China puts tariffs of up to 200 percent on Australian wine
- Four nabbed over Victorian’s largest liquid meth importation worth $123 million
- OOCL, VICT set new benchmark for highest container exchange in Australia
- ‘Queen’ of Heroin smuggling crime syndicate jailed
- Terminal operating hours – Christmas/New Year
- Don’t mention iron ore – China and Australia dance around the big issue
November 2020
- Industry Update
- Update on China banning log imports from QLD and VIC
- COVID-19 Update
- Consumer electronics & appliance industry backed by ACCC over rising ports costs
- Pirate attacks in the Gulf of Guinea
- Regional comprehensive economic partnership
- UN approved extra steps to curb shipping emissions
- Man arrested over meth in portable medical shower
- Australia calls on China to resolve standoff over coal ship stranded offshore for five months
- Illawarra man charged with attempting to import drugs from Melbourne
- Industry Update
- COVID-19 Update
- Fears more trade bans to come as China halts imports of Australian timber, lobsters, and barley
- Enhancing the Port of Brisbane’s Access
- Australian Trusted Trader – A message from Michael Outram, The Australian Border Force Commissioner
- Australian Border Force – meeting COVID-19 challenges at the border
- Man arrested, 144KG of Cocaine in hydraulic rams seized
- Shipping Australia responds to Port of Melbourne tariff rebalancing proposal
- Child-like sex doll vender shut down by Alibaba.com
- COVID-19 vaccine: development and distribution logistics
October 2020
- Industry Update
- COVID-19 Update
- Fee for dangerous goods misdeclaration
- Container chain cyber attack
- Australian Competition and Consumer omission (ACCC) chair Rod Sims slams state of monopoly ports controls
- Rio Tinto ship plucks family of eight from seas off QLD
- Federal Government looking into reports of Chinese energy providers told to stop importing Australian coal
- New transport and trade calls for container detention exemption
- 552KG of Cocaine found in banana pulp from Brazil
- $100,000 export grant to boost Australian organics in UK and Europe
- Industry Update
- COVID-19 Update
- Shipping companies struggle to repel hackers
- Business case for Brisbane inland rail intermodal terminal
- Imagine being stranded at sea for 18 months. That’s the reality for many seafarers amid COVID-19
- Two men arrested and 13KG of meth hidden in drive shafts seized
- Australia send troops to help container coronavirus on cargo ship
- Notification of planned urgent actions for the Khapra Beetle: Phase 2
- Math and Cocaine found in adult sex toys
- Missing SA skipper’s mate praying he’s found alive
September 2020
- COVID-19 Update
- 2020-21 seasonal measures for Brown Marmorated stink bug (BMSB)
- New framework for Biosecurity treatments
- China to ban all imports of solid waste from 2021
- Heavy fine for bulk steroid importer
- Australian Imports: Which consumer goods are on the rise?
- Melbourne’s biggest intermodal terminal to cut the high cost of the last mile
- Perth man faces court over meth found in handbags
- Notification of planned urgent actions for Khapra Beetle
- Industry Update
- COVID-19 Update
- Australian live export ship missing off the coast of Japan
- Four arrested, 100KG of liquid meth seized and discovery of a large Melbourne clan lab
- What is Australian trusted trader?
- Sydney presently at centre of chaos for now, as container costs continue to rise
- Update to ABF website to include information on dumping and countervailing duties
- Biosecurity measures reinforced for Brown Marmorated Stink Bug season 2020-21
- ‘Meth-sky’ drug trafficker jailed for 12 years
- French cigarette smuggler says ‘au revoir’ to $20,000
- Industry Update
- COVID-19 Update
- Australian container transport safety initiative launched
- Australian Trusted Trader – Deferred GST
- Fremantle Port could close by 2032 as Magowan inches closer to New Kwinana Harbour
- Two arrested and meth in cans of coconut milk seized
- Export restrictions on PPE extended
- Notification of planned urgent actions for the Khapra Beetle: Phase 2
- Freeze put on criminal syndicate after ice seized from fridge
August 2020
- Avanti’s 10th Birthday
- Updates on COVID-19
- WA office now open
- Joint statement – Freight & Trade Alliance and the Australia Peak Shippers Association
- Australian Government proposes strengthening against e-cigarettes containing vaporiser nicotine
- Recurring issues in the importation of biological products
- 360KG Meth seizure worth $180 million in Melbourne
- Air conditioning company fined for HCFC importation and storage offences
- COVID-19 Update
- Beirut Port Explosion
- The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) is launching an inspection effort targeting cargo securing arrangements on container ships visiting Australian ports.
- Freight rail line duplication fast-tracked
- Protected Industrial action at DP World Australia
- Hutchison Ports Sydney Infrastructure levy increase 8 September 2020
- Seizures of medications linked to pandemic on the rise
- ABF cracks quartz cigarette smuggling concealment
- Man arrested over pseudoephedrine in wedding invitations
- Serious misuse of mobile phone sees sex offender deported