Preparing for failure
IN THE past few months, we have seen general average declared on three vessels in the Asia Pacific region: APL Vancouver, Yantian Express and most recently the E.R. Kobe. When it...
TRADE LAW: An agenda for digital trade
TECHNOLOGY has contributed to improvements in trade and is seen as one means to facilitate improvements. For example, many parties are looking to blockchain as a means to enhance...
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...
OPINION: Bumbled burden or brilliant clarity - Burden of proof and the Hague Visby Rules
THE RECENT decision of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom in Volcafe Ltd v Compania Sud Americana De Vapores SA [2018] UKSC 61, is the first authoritative analysis on burden...
OPINION: International trade and markets
INTERNATIONAL trade agreements have been the engine of global growth for many years as capitalism has spread and even communist countries have accepted the system as the engine of...
OPINION: New stevedore contract arrangements necessitates review
ON 1 April 2019 the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission accepted a court enforceable undertaking from Hutchison Ports Australia regarding its standard form Terminal...
TRADE LAW: Please sir, a dog ate my Brexit
THE TERM “Brexit” has well and truly entered into regular use and represents one of the top topics for news and current affairs at the moment. The world is transfixed by...
LETTER TO DCN: CBFCA role in pursuing stevedore charges and restrictive trading terms
THE CBFCA welcomes recent action by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission on the subject of stevedores’ contract terms. CBFCA directors and management have had...
ANALYSIS: Standard form transport and storage contract exclusions clauses at risk
ON 1 April 2019, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission accepted a court enforceable undertaking from Hutchison Ports Australia Pty Ltd in respect of its standard form...
IMO 2020 - Less than a year to go
THE WORLD'S shipping industry now has fewer than 12 months to take steps to ensure compliance with the IMO’s sulphur cap without further strangling their profit margins, with the...
OPINION: Is Australian shipping on its last legs?
DR HERMIONE Parsons (director) and myself from the Centre for Supply Chain and Logistics (CSCL) at Deakin University recently appeared in front of the Senate Rural and Regional...
OPINION: Technology key to evolution in logistics
HERE, in Australia and New Zealand, a limited manufacturing base means our business is unique. We are predominately driven by imports, yet we still face the same challenges as the...
LETTER TO THE DCN: CBFCA questions composition of Biosecurity Import Levy Steering Committee
AGRICULTURE minister David Littleproud recently established a biosecurity levy steering committee to make recommendations on the implementation of this new levy. The Customs...
