OPINION: The highly compliant importer scheme
DAFF’s highly compliant importer (HCI) scheme is a reduced inspection intervention scheme that applies to green coffee beans for processing, new tyres, aircraft and machinery and...
OPINION: Building resilient supply chains
THE LAST few years have underscored the vulnerabilities of global supply chains. Once considered robust and reliable, they were exposed as fragile systems susceptible to...
TRADE LAW: Security of the supply chain
THE SUPPLY chain industry is one of the most heavily regulated sectors of the economy. Many potentially dangerous items pass through the supply chain and there are regular threats...
EMERGING TECHNOLOGY: A brave new year
IN WHAT now seems to be a mainstay at the commencement of any new year, there’s an ever-increasing list of published predictions and forecasts which claim to give us insight into...
TRADE LAW: Welcome to 2025 and more challenges in the supply chain
EVERY year, the global supply chain experiences a series of unexpected disruptions, requiring those in the supply chain to adapt quickly to manage those disruptions. In 2024,...
OPINION: Trump 2.0 so far
WELL, the first day of “Trump 2.0” could hardly be categorised as the President’s “first day on the job” but rather the first day of a new version of the same job with a...
OPINION: ACCC stevedore monitoring report and a word on charges
OVER the holiday break, I had a chance to digest the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) Container stevedoring monitoring report 2023-24, released toward the end...
INSIGHT: Bayesian sinking - the role of seamanship
“THE IDEAL seaman is he who says and does the proper thing, in just the proper way and at the proper time, a man who has developed sea sense and nautical sagacity,” Alfred E...
TRADE LAW: Alert but not alarmed
IN 2017 I visited colleagues at US law firms to get some ideas of how the first Trump administration (which I will call Trump 1.0) was changing US trade policies and the effect on...
OPINION: Strengthening Australia's supply chains
THE COVID-19 pandemic profoundly impacted global supply chains, revealing vulnerabilities and highlighting the critical importance of the freight and logistics sector in...
MISSION TO SEAFARERS: The hidden backbone of global trade
AS THE maritime industry sails through a technological revolution, one constant remains: the critical role of seafarers in global trade and transportation. Yet, despite their...
LETTER TO DCN: ATSB is not a regulator
IN A letter recently published in Daily Cargo News, a pilotage provider expressed concern over reports in this and another publication relating to alleged breaches of pilotage...
OPINION: Fatality statistics paint a grim picture
ICHCA International has recently conducted wide-ranging research on worldwide cargo-related workplace fatalities covering the period 2000 to the present day. We aim to learn from...
LETTER TO THE DCN: An unwelcome safety development
I WAS interested to read the DCN report that the state maritime safety regulator was ill-equipped to perform its statutory safety role. We also note in relevant part of the...
INSIGHT: Exploring responses for EV fire risk
Ports Australia recently held a meeting with harbour masters, first responders and industry experts that explored preparation and strategy for onboard EV fire scenarios WITH the...
