OPINION: Against the hitchhikers
IN JULY I attended the IPPC Workshop on Pest Risk Mitigation of Sea Containers and their Cargoes in Brisbane representing ICHCA International. The three-day workshop was organised...
OPINION: Rail share in the Port of Melbourne is going nowhere
A REPORT by the Victorian Auditor-General’s Office (VAGO) queries how the Victorian government, the Department of Transport and Planning and V/Line in particular, are going to...
OPINION: A look at this year’s Container Port Performance Index
THE CONTAINER Port Performance Index for 2022 (CPPI 2022), prepared by The World Bank and S&P Global Market Intelligence, was published recently. You already can hear the howls...
ICHCA SA luncheon May 2023
ICHCA South Australia recently held a successful industry event in Adelaide, at the Coopers Alehouse Gepps Cross, which was attended by more than 40 guests from the freight and...
OPINION: Container cleanliness may be the next supply-chain disruptor
OVER many years container cleanliness and so-called hitchhiker pests have been issues in the container logistics industry. They have been bubbling away under the surface, with...
LETTER TO DCN: Wind power bluster?
SIR, I would like to respond to the recent article about wind power in the DCN. I hate to take the wind out of Mr De Beukelaer’s sails (excuse the pun), but some of his...
OPINION: Seafarers are getting a rough deal
POLITICIANS might be one of the most maligned occupations in the country, but I believe seafarers must be a close second when you realise how they are often treated. Until a few...
Tall ship Alma Doepel changes course
LAST week a gala luncheon was held in the Docklands, Melbourne to celebrate the progress of the restoration of the tall ship Alma Doepel and to launch a new foundation that will...
OPINION: Ship size once again misunderstood
INDUSTRY and social media have once again gone into overdrive about the size of container vessels visiting Australian ports. The recent arrival of the containership CMA CGM...
LETTER TO DCN: ACCI executive speech didn’t capture the full picture
SIR, Recently, Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) chief executive Andrew McKellar gave an address at the National Press Club of Australia in which he singled out...
OPINION: Does the latest CPPI give a realistic view of port rankings?
THE TRANSPORT Global Practice of the World Bank and the Maritime, Trade and Supply Chain division of S&P Global Market Intelligence have recently published the Container Port...
2022 ICHCA Logistics Long Lunch a success
LAST Friday the logistics industry in Brisbane came together to hold the second ICHCA Logistics Long Lunch. After the success of the initial Long Lunch in 2021, the second event...
LETTER TO THE DCN: ACCC report gets some things right
DEAR editor, I would like to comment on the recently released Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s Container Stevedore Monitoring Report 2020-21 and the commentary by...
OPINION: It’s all about container dwell time
THERE are currently more than 70 containerships anchored off the Long Beach/Los Angeles coast waiting for a berth at one of the container terminals to discharge their containers....
OPINION: Shipping lines should invest more in new technology
IN a recent article published in the DCN, I mentioned that container shipping lines collectively are set to make more than US$100 billion this year, with Maersk alone forecasting...
