OPINION: M&A in transport and logistics
IT IS perhaps unsurprising that global deal-making contracted somewhat in 2019, given deep economic uncertainties with a trade war and the resulting risk of global recession and...
OPINION: Online ordering has changed retail for good
ONLINE ordering is transforming customer habits and retail processes. Companies that try to “set and forget” their fulfilment processes are effectively going backwards as their...
OPINION: Coronavirus global supply chain disruption to hit transport operators
CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) has captured much of the world’s attention since the disease began spreading from Wuhan city in China in early January 2020. Rightly so, the initial focus...
OPINION: How the coronavirus highlights the perils of the US-China trade war
DONALD Trump’s September 2015 assertion that the North American Free Trade Agreement was a “disaster” gave prescient notice of what lay ahead. The economic nationalism of America...
ANALYSIS: The unintended consequences of amending standard policy wordings
THE INSURED imported helicopters into Australia and had an annual facility with a marine insurer under a ‘master slip’ wording which provided “Helicopter Cargo Insurance (single...
OPINION: IMO 2020 Regulations – a step in the right direction
AS OF 1 January 2020, the International Maritime Organization ruled that marine sector sulphur emissions must be cut by more than 80% in international waters. The implications of...
TRADE LAW: High Court rules on “Vita gummies” and “Garcinia weight”
WE HAVE previously written at length on decisions of the AAT, or State or Federal Courts on the classification of goods for customs purposes. The classification of goods is a...
OPINION: Part X on the chopping block?
OCEAN liner shipping industry participants should take advantage of the window for submissions to the ACCC and prepare for a significant shift in the exemptions landscape in 2020...
OPINION: China catches a coronavirus and global trade may get very ill
AS I write this article, news of the spread of the “coronavirus” becomes worse on a regular basis. According to current media nearly 60 million people in China’s largest cities...
OPINION: Consolidation in containers – what do customers really think?
SHIPPING is the backbone of the world economy, facilitating international trade and globalisation with more than 90% of trade by volume being transported by sea, according to the...
OPINION: US China trade agreement - Phase One
IN MUCH the same way that Australia welcomed rain this week, the release of “Phase One” of the US and China Agreement had led to some degree of relief and confidence in the...
COMMENT: Melbourne empty container park fee increases from January 2020
EMPTY container parks in Melbourne have followed the interstate trend by advising significant increases in truck arrival notification fees to commence in January 2020. The fee...
OPINION: A packing quagmire
PACKING declarations have been in operation since around 1998/1999. International sea freight trade into Australia has changed dramatically since that time; sea freight shipments...
OPINION: Distorted container logistics market in Australia
THE REFERRAL by New South Wales Minister for Transport, Andrew Constance, of the massive, unfettered and unregulated stevedore infrastructure fee increases to the NSW Productivity...
OPINION: Australia suffers a rare defeat at the WTO
WHILE much debate surrounds the operation of our anti - dumping legislation in practice it may be a surprise to some that we did not create the regime unilaterally. Our regime...
