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...
INSIGHT: Coronavirus and market impacts
CORONAVIRUS has quickly spread across the globe, infecting and killing people around the world. The virus has also infected markets, which have been hit with extreme volatility...
COMMENT: New Australian export controls on goods during the COVID – 19 crisis
FURTHER to the update last week, the government has now moved to impose export controls on “COVID – 19” goods during the present “human biosecurity period”. The Australian Border...
COMMENT: Controls on exports during Covid-19
THERE have been suggestions the federal government, through the Australian Border Force was proposing to control exports of certain items of high demand during the Covid-19 crisis...
COMMENT: Background to MSQ isolation directive
THIS week I issued a Direction to all international trading vessels entering Queensland’s ports. My Direction will mean that a 14-day isolation period must be observed since...
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...
