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Changes to Biosecurity Cost Recovery  The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) have recently released Important Industry Advice Notice 226-2022 signalling a significant change to their Biosecurity cost recovery arrangement for sea freight Formal Import Declarations (FID) to

Attention: Shipping Manager We have been provided with the following update from the FTA (Freight Trade Alliance) in relation to the latest information available regarding the progress of free trade agreements with various countries.  Current details are as below:-

Attention: Shipping Manager  Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (BMSB) Seasonal Measures 2022-2023 – Updates Temporary measures for Roll-on Roll-off (RoRo) vessels from China  Due to the recent increase in exotic stinkbug detections on Chinese origin break bulk cargo and RoRo

Attention: Shipping Manager The Fair Work Commission has today suspended Svitzer’s lockout of its maritime employees for six months. During this time neither the unions nor the company can take protected industrial action. In the decision, Fair Work Commission

Attention: Shipping Manager We have been advised by the Freight & Trade Alliance that Svitzers lockout of Tug crews will not proceed today (Friday 18th November), allowing industry to return to planned shipping movements and recommence port operations. We

Attention: Shipping Manager We have received notice from the FTA (Freight & Trade Alliance) that the Fair Work Commission (FWC) has deferred the hearing to 1pm AEDT tomorrow (Thursday 17 November 2022) to determine whether or not to suspend

Attention: Shipping Manager As outlined in our previous notice, Svitzer Australia has taken action to lockout all crews, effective from noon this Friday. We have been informed as of 16 November, that the fair work commission will be holding

Attention: Shipping Manager We have been informed that from 12pm on Friday 18 November all crews covered by Svitzer Australia will be locked out indefinitely. The company said no vessels will be towed into or out of 17 Australian

Attention: Shipping Manager We have been advised that Svitzer Australia will be carrying out industrial action. This will result in the following: Significant protected industrial action across Australia’s major ports with widespread stoppages scheduled from 10 November through to

Ongoing Biosecurity Delays We are seeing significant delays in relation to document assessment (three to seven days) and lengthy delays (in many instances, several weeks) in inspection booking responses and next available inspection times by the Department of Agriculture,