Articles & announcements

The Maritime Union of Australia has applied to the Fair Work Commission to take protected industrial action in its negotiations for a new enterprise bargaining agreement for stevedores at DP World. The industrial action will take place at all four of DP World's Australian terminals, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Fremantle, in the coming weeks.

There has been further progress and containers from the US and UK are being released to us. Our Import team will continue to keep you appraised of any further developments.

For the last seven days most export and import shipments handled by Qantas at Australian airports have not left  the country or cleared Customs but are still sitting on the various hardstands/tarmac areas at Australian International Airports. There are now some 10,000 containers which require final clearance/electronic recognition in order to be moved.

Please be guided by the attached and we continue our efforts to have your shipments on their way at the earliest possibility.

China 2023, FCL updates. Freight rates have continued to soften since we wrote last. The 2nd half July rates were released this weekend and reflect lack of cargo from main ports in China...

Container freight rates for China to Australia, February 2023.