LETTER TO THE DCN: Where is the incentive to improve port performance?
I WOULD like to comment on the recent opinion article by Peter van Duyn, published in the DCN, about container port performance. I read with interest the Shipping Australia...
Vale John McMeekin
By Andrew McMeekin Dad started his shipping career with McIlwraith McEacharn & Co in Melbourne the late 1940s after leaving Scotch College. He was transferred to the Fremantle...
LETTER TO THE DCN: Waterfront in a vicious circle
I WRITE in relation to the ongoing debate regarding the variously labelled waterfront charges levied on road transport operators and hence on the whole supply chain. There was a...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Transport companies have no control over choice of stevedore
HAVING read the article by Shipping Australia and understand that certain charges may apply for Terminal/Wharf Access, what is controversial in article is: Comparison with road...
LETTER TO THE DCN: Queensland maritime taskforce
ONE hates to be a continual nay-sayer but this has all been tried before with a great deal of fanfare and a conspicuous lack of success. ANL ran a Queensland coastal service...
MESSAGE FROM AMSA: Float-free EPIRBs on their way
A REMINDER that from 1 January 2021, float-free emergency position-indicating radio beacons (EPIRBs) will be mandatory on certain types of domestic commercial vessels. This change...
LETTER TO THE DCN: Cruise ships - deal with it!
DEAL with the cruise ship problem in a professional, humane and caring manner, showing how good Australia is. Don't just turn your back and say 'go away'! Bring them to anchorage...
LETTER TO THE DCN: DPWA and ancilliary fee hikes
WE NOTE with some beggared belief the announcement by DP World of yet further increases in the port access charges and wonder which parallel universe they inhabit. At a time when...
LETTER TO THE DCN: Infrastructure surcharge hikes
I WRITE regarding the announcement by VICT of a 43.3% increase in the charge levied for the privilege of using their facilities that is to apply from 1 January. The new rate will...
LETTER TO THE DCN: Stevedore price hikes deserve scrutiny
A FEW comments on the DPWA announcement of this week. I note the remarks as follows: “The continuation of the rebalancing of revenue recovery from waterside to landside is...
LETTER TO THE DCN: VICT and stevedore fees
WHILST feeling just a tad of sympathy for VICT it has to be asked why, two years after opening, it has suddenly been discovered that they got their sums so badly wrong that for...
LETTER TO THE DCN: Albanese’s shipping policies
WHO is going to invest in these new ships? The Labor Party misses the point entirely. People invest in ships to make money. That is the only reason and it has been proved time and...
LETTER TO DCN: Tightening the laws on temporary licences
SIR, One of the key components of the policy announcements by the ALP this week was to stop the abuse of temporary licences. AIMPE has highlighted the abuse of the temporary...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Albanese criticisms wide of the mark
SIR, I was appalled to read Anthony Albanese's response to Rod Nairn (6/3/2019) and his inference on the name Shipping Australia. As a founder of SAL (and I might say without my...
Sudden passing of Peter Jollie AM
PETER Jollie AM FCA FAICD passed away suddenly at his property at Oberon, west of the Blue Mountains, on 8 December 2018. He was 78. Peter had extensive experience in the...
