Articles

June 2022

Issue 2

• Industry Update
• Oceania terminal update
• Shanghai lockdown over, but still a long way from ‘business as usual’
• Concerns mount as more, old dangerous goods found at Chittagong Port
• Carriers are becoming ‘more aggressive’ over ‘unfair’ container detention in Australia
• New Zealand highlights potential for trans-tasman shipping under Australia’s new Government
• Ports introduce back-up plans as 25,000 truckers strike in South Korea
• Shippers have lost up to $10bn from delayed ships during the pandemic
• Shanghai port waiting times returning to normal- VesselsValue
• ANL expands Great Barrier Reef rocovery program with new coral nursery
• Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment & Australian Border Force industry advice and notices
• Maersk faces sexual assault at sea charges

Issue 1

• Industry Update
• Oceania terminal update
• Covid slows China port volume growth, as Tianjin enters new lockdown
• Supply chain stakeholders enter ‘uncharted waters’
• Pacific National welcomes labor’s oversight of inland rail
• Ship captain charged over Western Australian 320kg Cocaine plot
• Bulk carrier chief engineer pleads guilty to illegal discharges, cover up
• More than 30 killed and hundreds injured in Bangladesh container depot fire
• Terminals around the world brace as Shanghai exhales
• Pedal power: Colombo dockworkers issued with bicycles as fuel shortages cripple local economy
• Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment & Australian Border Force industry advice and notices
• Maersk’s towage operator Svitzer sets carbon neutral by 2040 goal

May 2022

Issue 2

• Industry Update
• Oceania terminal update
• Wood packaging requirements for export cargo
• China’s lockdown cause worldwide shipping delays
• Diver dead and 50kg of cocaine found after bulker vessel docks in Newcastle, Australia
• Shanghai authorities say city will open this week
• HMM to deploy more vessels as port congestion persists
• Covid-19 impact on seafarer populations will be felt for years to come
• CMA CGM launches early container return incentive
• 320kg of cocaine seized and two arrested in Western Australia
• Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment & Australian Border Force industry advice and notices
• CMA CGM and Air France-KLM Join forces

Issue 1

• Industry Update
• Oceania terminal update
• ‘Unreasonable fees’ send Australian shippers into multi-billion dollar frenzy
• Hutchison Ports Sydney – Further increase in terminal access charge
• China covid crisis continues
• Victorian man sentenced for illegal importation of 10 million cagarettes
• Hapag-Lloyd becomes first liner to equip all its containers with tracking devices
• Filipino seafarer pleads guilty in gruesome murder of crew member on LA-bound containership
• Hapag-Lloyd fined in United States for erroneous D&D charges
• Know your shipper warns TT Club, as lithium battery fires spread
• Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment & Australian Border Force industry advice and notices
• Men charged following failed attempt to smuggle cocaine on containerships

April 2022

Issue 2

• Industry Update
• Oceania terminal update
• Shanghai lockdown causes queues of vessels stuck waiting to enter China
• Ever Foward is finally free!
• Cargo diversions from Shanghai start to clog up other major Chinese airports
• More than 1 tonne of MDMA seized, 6 men sentenced
• CMA CGM ships to stop loading plastic waste from mid-April
• Maersk takes top spot on the transpacific
• Durban port gradually restarts operations after floods
• Russian and Belarusian imports additional customs duty – 25 April 2022
• Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment & Australian Border Force industry advice and notices
• DP World Sydney – Authorised MUA stop work meeting – 1 May 2022

Issue 1

• Industry Update
• Oceania terminal update
• Australian depot managers say free box storage time is ‘unworkable’
• Evergreen declares general average on grounded Ever Forward
• Ships stranded in Ukraine as conflict slows UN Efforts for ‘maritime corridor’
• Australia-India free trade agreement
• Liner pricing investigations multiply across the globe
• Maersk loses 90 containers overboard
• Freight forwarder and two other men charged over plots to import 100kg of methamphetamine
• Supply chains remain in chaos as Shanghai lockdown is extended indefinitely
• Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment & Australian Border Force industry advice and notices
• Stevedore working arrangements over the Easter/ANZAC period

March 2022

Issue 2

• Industry Update
• Oceania terminal update
• Maersk, CMA CGM and Hapag Lloyd asked to provide rate information to U.S lawmakers
• As Shenzhen lockdown ends other regions are hit by new Covid restrictions
• Patrick Terminals employees vote up new enterprise agreement
• U.S West Coast port congestion starts to ease as imports divert to the East
• Evergreen container ship runs aground near Baltimore – A year after the Ever Given blocked the Suez Canal
• Box ship completes 790km autonomous navigation trial
• Australia bans Alumina, Bauxite exports to Russia
• Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles to collect clean truck fund fee starting April
• Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment & Australian Border Force industry advice and notices
• Soaring fuel costs amid the war in Ukraine, flowing through to freight charges, and Australia’s floods adding to issues with transport and logistics

Issue 1

• Industry Update
• Oceania terminal update
• Container lines suspends shipments to Russia
• Police seize 69kg of drugs concealed in tea
• International chamber of shipping urges governments to act after seafarers denied urgent medical care
• Ukraine invasion having global impacts on shipping
• Felicity Ace Update – Vessel has sunk
• Sanctions start to wreak havoc on rates, dwell times and fuel prices
• Hapag-Lloyd hit with spear phishing attack as fake website gathers data
• Vietnam readies to give China some competition in container manufacturing
• Two men sentenced after smuggling live lizards from Australia to the United States
• Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment & Australian Border Force industry advice and notices

February 2022

Issue 2

• Industry Update
• Oceania terminal update
• Good news for airfreight as Australia looks set to reopen borders
• Omicron ripping through cargo ships may exacerbate shipping woes
• PIL to fine clients who misdeclare cargo weight
• Congestion at U.S ports
• CMA CGM to stop carrying plastic waste cargo
• Addition of China to the BMSB emerging risk country list
• Empty container avalanche predicted to cause chaos later this year
• PIL launches new service between China and Australia – Sino Australia Express (SAE)
• Abandoned car carrier still burning with 4,000 cars on board
• ACCC joins ‘Five Eyes’ alliance to prevent supply chain cartel conduct
• Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment & Australian Border Force industry advice and notices

Issue 1

• Industry Update
• Oceania terminal update
• Staff shortages from Covid heighten chronic Australian supply chain delays
• Major rail and road flooding causes freight delays
• Canberra issues shipping licence exemption for flood hit Western Australia
• Patrick Terminals and the Maritime Union of Australia reach a 4-year enterprise agreement
• Rapid antigen tests plague at the CTOs in Sydney & Melbourne – Update general airfreight space under pressure
• 10 feared dead after oil vessel explodes – Video in link
• Mumbai Maersk runs aground near Germany
• Wan Hai denies FMC claims of ‘illegal’ D&D charges on 21 containers
• Brisbane man charged with importing 83kg of methamphetamine hidden inside timber pallets
• Master of APL England faces trial for operating unworthy ship
• Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment & Australian Border Force industry advice and notices

January 2022

Issue 3

• Industry Update
• Yantian restricts container entry to ease overflow
• Korean antitrust body slaps $81M fine on price fixing liner operations
• Rapid Antigen Tests – Role of sponsors and distributors
• Importation of Covid-19 Rapid Antigen Test Kits frequently asked questions – Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment
• Container rollovers look set to continue after December rise
• Wan Hai and Cosco follow Evergreen and agree more generous bonuses
• Australian rail track corporation says line closed between South Australia, Western Australia, and Northern Territory due to heavy rain in the outback
• Rise in phishing attacks related to Omicron
• Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment & Australian Border Force industry advice and notices

Issue 2 

• Industry Update
• Oceania terminal update
• Port of Ningbo open, but logistics services suffer as Covid restrictions are tightened
• Trio charged and 99kg of methamphetamine stopped from reaching Western Australia over festive period
• Omicron outbreak in Australia wreaking havoc with supply chains
• MSC tops Maersk to become world’s largest container shipping line
• Shanghai extends its lead at the top of the container terminal rankings
• Anthony Albanese pledges emergency fleet of Australian ships
• Increase in terminal access charges – Patrick terminals
• Maersk provides a snapshot of growing port congestion around the world
• Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment & Australian Border Force industry advice and notices

Issue 1

• Industry Update
• Oceania terminal update
• How the world’s big shipping lines are spending their pandemic profits
• Gloomy view of shipping 2022 – it may be ‘the year of the surcharge’
• 2021: A year of Covid variants and milking the freight rate cash cow
• Australian Border Force ruins $15 million white Christmas
• Traveller hailed biosecurity champion after reporting bug
• Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement – entry into force
• More supply chain chaos expected as Omicron forces transport workers to quit
• Adani’s first Carmichael Mine coal export shipment imminent after years of campaigns against it
• Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment & Australian Border Force industry advice and notices