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We would like to remind all shippers that Chinese National Holidays commence October 1st until 7th October. We urge you to ensure all documentation for any shipment arriving around this time have been received or dispatched by your suppliers to avoid unnecessary storage costs.

The market from Far East Asia has been extremely volatile of late, rates have been at extremely low levels for most of 2015/2016, despite small increases and reductions over this period, including increases from 1st September, 2016. The driving factor on rates throughout this period has been availability of space

Are you importing from, USA, Japan or Korea? Just a reminder that your supplier provide you with a Signed Certificate of Origin to prevent delays at time of import and having to unnecessarily having to pay import duty, and then claim a refund. Please refer to the formats attached below which you should provide you

As advised by our industry body, CBFCA, the following article has been written by Sohee Kim & Kyunghee Park for Bloomberg and is forwarded for your attention. “As reported in Bloomberg today Hanjin Shipping Co. will apply for court receivership after lenders decided to halt all support to South KoreaR

Under the Biosecurity Act 2015, there have been changes made to the Packing Declaration, in particular to Q.1. whereby Department of Agriculture & Water Resources (DAWR) has removed the “Prohibited Packaging Material Statement” and replaced it with the “Unacceptable Packaging Material Stateme

The Australian Border Force has implemented a Voluntary trade facilitation initiative, which is open to all Australian Business active in the International supply chain, that have an ABN, with a two year trading history and that are financially solvent. This programme recognises businesses with a secure supply cha

Dear Clients, Our International Business Manager, Bob Bulmer, has just returned from a trip to Shanghai China during which time he met with quite a number of the major shipping lines. This is his second trip in the recent weeks following up on negotiations held in early July with lines to try and finalise global &

IMPORTANT NEWS FOR EXPORTERS The new procedures for SOLAS, Safety For Life At Sea, will be introduced by Australian Ports from Wednesday 22nd June, 2016, as advised in our previous Newsletters. To reiterate the new requirements for all export shipments are as follows: All weight of export cargo moved by sea MUST n

The Illegal Logging Act & regulation of 2012 make it an offence to import a timber product or to process an Australian grown raw log that has been illegally logged. As of May 2016 businesses will need to ensure that they are compliant with the regulatory requirements, and that they have done their due diligenc

The China freight market continues to be very volatile with past General Rate Increases (GRI’s) in the main, not being upheld in the market. Every month we receive flyers from shipping lines advising that rates will increase, they have been coming since early January and despite a few minor special port inc