International Freight for Heavy Industry
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New freighter service to Port Moresby
Qantas Freight kicked off its new weekly freighter service between Australia and Papua New Guinea on Saturday 6 July 2013. The flight between Cairns, Brisbane and Port Moresby will be operated by a Boeing 737-300F aircraft, offering 15 tonnes of cargo capacity. The freighter service will operate each Saturday on the following schedule (listed in local times): […]
More Industrial Action at Newcastle port
Newcastle Port is to be hit with a series of four-hour work stoppages starting 11pm tonight as Port Waratah Coal Services (PWCS) workers begin another round of industrial action. The stoppages are expected to last until Wednesday, June 26. A PWCS spokesperson told Lloyd’s List Australia despite the stoppages, negotiations with the Maritime Union of […]
Used Machinery Imported with Unacceptable Levels of Biosecurity Risk Material
Who does this notice affect? This Notice is for all importers of used machinery into Australia. What has changed? DAFF is seeing an increasing number of imported used machines with high levels of Biosecurity Risk Material (BRM). Used machinery can pose a high biosecurity risk if it is contaminated with BRM such as soil, animal […]
Changes to import conditions for new and used machinery and equipment
Who does this notice affect? Importers of new and/or used machinery and equipment. What has changed? New import conditions have been approved for new and used machinery and equipment. The previous 14 ICON cases have been streamlined into four cases. Each case covers all countries and the standard end use: ‘All uses other than as […]
Schoeller Shipping company fined $10.4 million for illegally dumping tainted water
NEWARK — A pair of subsidiaries of a Cyprus-based shipping and hotel holding company pleaded guilty in federal court this morning to illegally dumping oil-tainted bilge water on four occasions, and then falsifying records for inspections in New Jersey, Delaware and California to cover it up. The dumping occurred far out at sea, well away […]
