IN the news this week, Senator Bridget McKenzie called for the infrastructure and transport minister to issue a Section 11 exemption from the Coastal Trading Act 2012 to allow international ships to move cargo to the Port of Wyndham to help the flood-stricken communities of the east Kimberley.

Also, 14 furniture importers were fined a total of more than $186,000 because they didn’t act to minimise the risk of importing illegally harvested timber.

A hydrogen export project in Victoria has moved to the commercial demonstration phase with an investment of $2.35 billion from the Japanese government.

And companies are stepping up to help out in the wake of the collapse of Scott’s Refrigerated Logistics.

And finally, a Melbourne man was arrested and charged after allegedly importing 24 kilos of cocaine in an airfreight consignment of water pumps from Greece.

Thanks for listening.