Australian logistics industry figures present in Japan

SENIOR industry figures Andrew Adam and Peter van Duyn recently travelled to Tokyo, Japan, to present at the 7^th International Cargo Handling Seminar.

Mr Adam was previously the chief executive of stevedore DP World Australia is now a board member of New South Wales Ports and Intermodal Terminal Corporation.

Mr van Duyn is a director of the International Cargo Handling and Coordination Association of Australia (ICHCA) and a former manager with Patricks.

They were invited by the Japan Association of Cargo handling Machinery Systems and ICHCA Japan.

Attending the forum were more than one hundred senior executives of equipment manufacturers, port authorities, government representatives and academics.

Andrew Adam spoke in detail about the Port Botany Landside Improvement Strategy and how this changed the relationship between transport operators and stevedores in Port Botany and the financial penalties applicable for non-performance, an area of great interest by the audience.

He also spoke about the continued vertical integration and consolidation of major shipping lines and logistics operators.

Mr van Duyn spoke about the advance of automation in cargo handling equipment both in Australia and oversea as well as the decarbonisation of the industry and the challenges for achieving net zero by 2050.

He said non-fossil fuels for vessel propulsion were still being developed, while the US pulling out of the MEPC at the IMO and threatening retaliatory measures such as tariffs and visa restrictions would only make progress more difficult.

Mr van Duyn and Mr Adam also spoke with the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, as well as the International Association of Ports and Harbors, whose head office is in Tokyo.