China Update

Empty shipping container congestion has spiked again in Sydney in recent weeks, leaving importers and their transport providers incurring added costs from empty de-hire delays, yard storage of empties, futile trucks trips, and additional administration. The congestion and delays come off the back of a relatively p

Another COVID outbreak in China Logistics managers are feeling far from “dynamic” about the latest COVID spread being reported in the Chinese cities of Gansu, Shanghai, Guangxi, Guangdong and Henan. The highly infectious BA.5 variant has been detected in seven cities and many areas are implementing the

Commencing on 4 July 2022 and for a 12 month period, goods that are the produce or manufacture of Ukraine, will have a ‘Free’ rate of duty. Please refer to ACN 2022-31 for further details.

Australian trucking fuel levies continue to escalate around Australia as Oil prices and Ad Blue fuel additive continually fluctuate on a weekly basis. Our Sub-contracted truckers around Australia has advised they are adjusting their fuel levies in line with further increased costs from 15th July 2022 as follows. S

The new Biosecurity Portal for booking import inspections has been up and running for several months. We are experiencing significant delays with Inspection Bookings, on average a booking is taking 2 week to be confirmed in Portal. There are also delays with Document Processing, the average time The Department is

Trucking Rates: There have been several cost increases for trucking over the last few months including Inflation, Equipment costs, Registration costs and Drivers Wages apart from the massive increases in diesel and tollway charges. Regrettably, GPSM are unable to continue to absorb these constant increases and eff

China Lockdowns slowly lifting: As Chinese authorities slowly lift their “Zero Tolerance” lockdown in Shanghai, it is hopeful that regular services will return to normal as soon as possible. A large volume of containers had been diverted to Qingdao and Ningbo during the lockdown causing extensive conge

There is currently an outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) in Indonesia. Due to this change in disease status, Indonesia will be removed from the department’s FMD-free country list. To reduce the risk of a potential incursion and help Australia maintain its current FMD-free status the department has take

The Australian Border Force (ABF) has informed IFCBAA that the Integrated Cargo System (ICS) gateway (CCF) is currently experiencing problems with ICS External Access with EDI messages and as a result no EDI messages are being passed to ICS for processing. The problem is being investigated as a matter of priority.

The Shanghai city lockdown has continued for almost a month with no end in sight as to when workers will be free to return to their workplaces. While Shanghai port is claimed to be operating as normal, the fact is that there are very few trucks that are able to access the port and many …