For truck drivers using port roads at Port Botany, new rules have come into play today, 13 January, in response to empty container parks in Sydney facing high demand for empty container de-hire and the subsequent long truck queues.
Peak transport bodies unite to fight monopoly power of privately-owned ports
Peak transport and logistic groups have had enough of the monopoly power of privately-owned ports and are calling for the state and federal governments to take urgent action. Read more
Peace deal on table today to end industrial action at ports
The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) will today use a conciliation hearing of the Fair Work Commission to formally offer a peace deal to Patrick Terminals that could deliver an immediate end to all industrial action at the company’s container terminals. Read more
Trucking companies feeling pinch from shipping container crisis
Leading stevedore Patrick Terminals has applied to the Fair Work Commission (FWC) to urgently seek an end to costly industrial action by the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) at four ports. Read more
Woolies to build new hi-tech DCs in south-west Sydney
Woolworths is planning to build two new automated grocery distribution centres in the Moorebank Logistics Park in south-west Sydney.