
June 2022
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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