Due to several factors which have come together in the shipping industry recently, importers have experienced significant on-going delays which have been beyond the control of their freight forwarders and their suppliers.
Industrial action has dramatically escalated at the Port of Melbourne with the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) hitting the Victoria International Container Terminal’s (VICT) Webb Dock terminal with a series of stoppages that commenced early last week on Tuesday 16th, then 12 hours from 6 pm Friday 19th, and then a scheduled 3 x 12 […]
After a 2 day hearing at the Fair Work Commission, the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) has announced that it would immediately end industrial action at Patrick terminals in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Fremantle. There is still a massive backlog of containers around Australia, exceeding more than 100,000, that need to be cleared and it […]
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