Author: GPSM

Treatment providers registered under the scheme have demonstrated their capacity to conduct BMSB treatments for applicable consignments. These treatment providers are included on the approved list of offshore BMSB treatment providers.

This list is referenced in section 48A of the Biosecurity (Prohibited and Conditionally Non-prohibited Goods) Determination 2016, section 43 of the Biosecurity (Prohibited and Conditionally Non-prohibited Goods—Christmas Island) Determination 2016, section 44 of the Biosecurity (Prohibited and Conditionally Non-prohibited Goods—Cocos (Keeling) Islands) Determination 2016, and section 43 of the Biosecurity (Prohibited and Conditionally Non-prohibited Goods—Norfolk Island) Determination 2016.
These lists will be updated as required.

*NOTE: The column titled ‘treatment capabilities’ details the types of goods that each company is capable of treating. This information has been provided by the individual company involved and may be subject to change. Where there is no treatment capability indicated, the treatment provider has not indicated their treatment capabilities to the department. This does not mean that the treatment provider is not capable of delivering treatments of this kind. You should confirm the treatment capability with the company concerned. The three categories included in the ‘treatment capabilities’ column correspond to the following descriptions:

Containers: the company can treat containerised cargo at the whole container level

Break bulk: the company can treat goods to be shipped as break bulk, in open-top containers or on flat rack containers

Individual goods: the company can treat individual goods using stack or chamber treatment methods.

 

Airline Fuel Surcharge from Hong Kong:

All airlines operating from Hong Kong to all destinations, including Australia,  have announced another fuel surcharge increase effective from 1st December 2018.

The Fuel Surcharge will be increased from the current level of HKD 2.90/kg to HKD 3.40/kg on all shipments. Rates have been adjusted accordingly and are visible in our Communicator portal.

Ocean Freight Low Sulphur Fuel Surcharge:

Shipping Lines are progressively adopting global Low Sulphur Fuel limits of 0.5% under new regulations that have been implemented.

An additional surcharge will be billed by all shipping lines and is between USD 15.00/20ft or USD 30.00/40ft container up to USD 70.00/20ft and USD 140.00/40ft container depending on origin and destination regions.

A number of lines are implementing the additional surcharge from 1st December 2018, others are implementing it from 1st January 2019. Some lines are including the additional surcharge into the already established Emergency Fuel Surcharge, some are including the surcharge into the freight costs, while others are showing the surcharge as a separate item.

In order to simplify billing and to show transparency, GPSM will be listing the new Low Sulphur Surcharge as a separate line on all invoices depending on the trade lane involved.

Goods that are manufactured on or after 1st December 2018 may be exempt from the seasonal measures providing they meet the following requirements:

• The goods are manufactured on or after 1st December 2018
• The goods are classed as new machinery, vehicles, vessels and/or new complex parts and equipment. This includes goods classified under the following tariff chapters only: 82, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88 and 89.
• Evidence can be provided to show that the goods are manufactured on or after 1st December 2018. (Evidence can be in various forms such as a manufacturer’s declaration, commercial invoice)
• A declaration can be provided stating the goods are new, unused and not field tested.
• The goods can be verified they have been manufactured on or after 1st December 2018 (Evidence can be supported by labelling on the goods)

BMSB measures will not apply if all the above conditions can be met. The Department of Agriculture and Water Resources has applied this policy for previous BMSB seasonal measures. The general policy for this requirement is that ‘a good is only considered to be manufactured on or after 1st December 2018 if all its large, complex components have also been manufactured after 1st December 2018′. This means that any goods that require a significant period to manufacture are not in scope to be exempt from the BMSB measures

For example, a Car classified to Chapter 87, would have to have all the components that go to make up the finished product made on or after 1st December 2018 to be eligible for exemption. Similarly, machinery classified to Chapter 84, would have to have all components made on or after  1st December  2018  to be eligible for exemption.

Dear Clients,

Please be advised that Industrial Action at DP World Terminal in Sydney commenced yesterday at 11.00am and is continuing until at least 9.00am Friday. This has resulted in the cancellation of all time slots and has severely affected deliveries of import and export containers.

It is expected that the industrial action could continue today, Friday, our Transport team will keep you advised as soon as possible on amended delivery arrangements.

It should also be noted that the Maritime Union of Australia will hold their Annual General Meeting on Tuesday 27th November 2018 and we expect all deliveries/receivals at all terminals in Sydney to cease between the hours of 9.00am and 2.00pm on that day.

Treatment providers registered under the scheme have demonstrated their capacity to conduct BMSB treatments for applicable consignments. These treatment providers are included on the approved list of offshore BMSB treatment providers.

This list is referenced in section 48A of the Biosecurity (Prohibited and Conditionally Non-prohibited Goods) Determination 2016, section 43 of the Biosecurity (Prohibited and Conditionally Non-prohibited Goods—Christmas Island) Determination 2016, section 44 of the Biosecurity (Prohibited and Conditionally Non-prohibited Goods—Cocos (Keeling) Islands) Determination 2016, and section 43 of the Biosecurity (Prohibited and Conditionally Non-prohibited Goods—Norfolk Island) Determination 2016.

These lists will be updated as required.

*NOTE: The column titled ‘treatment capabilities’ details the types of goods that each company is capable of treating. This information has been provided by the individual company involved and may be subject to change. Where there is no treatment capability indicated, the treatment provider has not indicated their treatment capabilities to the department. This does not mean that the treatment provider is not capable of delivering treatments of this kind. You should confirm the treatment capability with the company concerned. The three categories included in the ‘treatment capabilities’ column correspond to the following descriptions:

Containers: the company can treat containerised cargo at the whole container level

Break bulk: the company can treat goods to be shipped as break bulk, in open top containers or on flat rack containers

Individual goods: the company can treat individual goods using stack or chamber treatment methods.

 

BMSB Offshore List Treatment Providers

Understanding your obligations with ‘shared’ responsibility in the Chain of Responsibility CoR 2018.

As many of you are aware on October 1st 2018, the Heavy Vehicle National Law (HVNL) was amended to provide that every party in the heavy vehicle transport supply chain has a Primary Duty to ensure the safety of their transport activities. The noteworthy part of these CoR changes is that all parties must now ensure safety “so far as is reasonably practicable” to eliminate/ minimise public risk and ensure that no-one directly or indirectly encourages drivers to contravene HVNL.

Download CoR obligations

Expanding/Collapsing order lines

We have a new feature in which we can expand/collapse the order lines on a shipment.

Shipments will now default the invoice lines hidden to save us scrolling for days. You will see this button:

appear in between the shipment info and the notes. All you need to do to view the order lines is click on it and they will appear.

Once opened, the button will change to say:

you can then click on this to hide them again.

BMSB   list of updated offshore treatment  provider list, we remind all of our clients whilst there has been a policy change to allow onshore inspection and treatment of containers to be mindful that there will be delays during the BMSB season, and as it progresses we believe these will increase as more containers arrive onshore for processing, this can lead to potential wharf storage and Container detention charges being incurred.

You can now save your search fields, not only by country but also by State (if it is within Australia).

We have just added a new function where you can default your search to per country and per state. Please see example below, all you need to do is click on the little green tick, then every time you use the search plane, there will be no need to select anything!

The fields that you can now default to in search are:

• Search for (shipments/purchase orders/documents)
• Mode
• Origin country
• Destination country
• State (if is within Australia)

If your part of a national company this will be a great help in saving you time for your searches as you can default to your home port. Of course, you can also elect to see all ports or another specific port if you are looking for a particular order/product.

Hope this new feature is a great help to all!

Bio securities have revised its policy for goods shipped from Target Countries between September 1st 2018 and 30 April 2019 inclusive. Both Target high risk and target risk goods may now be treated both onshore and offshore. The revised policy to allow treatment of all containerised cargo with the exception of Open top containers and Flat racks will, however, result in increased clearance delays at the border due to the identification of treated and non – treated containerised cargo, and limited onshore capacity of storage facilities at approved arrangement sites and onshore provider premises.

To minimise delays importers are encouraged to have Target High-Risk goods treated offshore only at approved offshore providers please refer to list attached.