Easter Holiday Operating Hours Airfreight – using Qantas hours in Brisbane a guide: Good Friday – Closed Lodgement hours: Saturday to Monday - 04:00 to 16:00 Collection hours: Saturday to Monday - 08:00 to 15:00 Seafreight – using Patricks Stevedores in Brisbane as a guide: Good Friday – Receivals and deliveries “On Request.†Saturday: Open daytime, then […]
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Port of Brisbane News
Port of Brisbane Makes Room for Port Gate Logistics Transport and logistics operator, PortGate Logistics, has signed a 30-year lease deal with the Port of Brisbane to relocate to a new 3-hectare site on Fisherman Islands. PortGate Logistics is a sub-tenant of Portgate Properties Pty Ltd, who currently sub-lease a number of warehouses and hardstand areas […]
BMSB Country List Expands to 32
In response to the rapid expansion of BMSB throughout Europe and North America, the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources has strengthened the seasonal measures to manage risk of BMSB from arriving in Australia for the 2019–20 risk season. The current Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (BMSB) season is drawing to a close, 30 April 2019. […]
Updates on Industrial Action at Ports
Hutchison Ports Brisbane Protected Industrial Action Hutchison Ports has advised of Protected Industrial Action in Brisbane, as follows: “Please be advised that due to Protected Industrial Action by Stevedoring Employees, Hutchison Ports Brisbane will be closed FRI 05/04/19 0700 – SAT 06/04/19 0700. Due to this action, the following will apply: Vessel cut-off for the […]
FTA Between Hong Kong, China and Australia
Hong Kong and Australia commenced negotiations of a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and an Investment Agreement in 2017, concluding them both in late 2018, and the two Agreements were signed on 26 March 2019. The Agreements are comprehensive and the commitments made are of high quality, encompassing trade in goods, trade in services, investment, government […]
Home Affairs Reviews Border Permits & Licences
The Department of Home Affairs (DoHA) is leading an agenda to modernise international trade flows, i.e. imported and exported goods through air cargo, sea cargo and international mail, that cross Australia’s border. This agenda aims to create a future international trade system for Australia that is seamless, digital, automated and user-friendly. This will ensure the […]
Shipping Lines’ Container Management Issues
Industry representatives have questioned whether Shipping Lines are driving the prices they are prepared to pay the Container Terminal Operators (CTOs) and Empty Container Parks (ECPs) so low that they (the CTOs & ECPs) in turn have to find other avenues to manage overheads. Recent activities by Shipping Lines in making last minute changes (redirections) […]
Beluga XL Cute Airplane for Cargo Only
One of the aviation world’s most hotly anticipated planes, the Airbus Beluga XL, has just completed a key round of testing at Hawarden Airport in Wales, ahead of entering service later in 2019. At a time when jumbo passenger airliners such as the Airbus A380 and Boeing 747 are on their way out, the Beluga […]
Australia-Indonesia FTA Signed Today
After years of painstaking negotiations Australia and Indonesia have finally signed a landmark free trade agreement (FTA) today, Monday 04 March 2019. It is a breakthrough for diplomats, who have long worried about the underperformance of trade between the two countries. They hope the deal will boost the business relationship and also reinforce strategic ties […]
Government’s Position on Biosecurity Levy
Representatives of Australia’s international freight and shipping industries have expressed concerns about the government’s proposed Biosecurity Levy, which we reported on in our news feature back on 30 November 2018. The main questions revolve around who should pay, and whether the levy will be shared proportionately among the many various parties involved in importing and […]
