product. they re lucky to have food to sell let alone the labor to get the food served werther it s th cooks or whoever it is. now the bigger corporations are picking winners and losers, add to that the mandates. it s mandatory you have to wear masks. what a coincidence, the price o masks have gone up 100 percent. you re talking testing, everybody s talking about oma graun, but no testing kits available. so supply, demand, the inabilit to have many of the products to sell, so profit is way out the window especially when the dollar has lost so much value a it has two inflation. has this report can be the last two and half months have marked progress, evidenced in part by near 40 percent in the numbers along dwelling import containers on the port since november 1st, the that is specifically on supply chain. are you seeing any light at the end of the tunnel? you getting any benefit from what they re saying as an improvement at the ports?
Date: 25.01.2021
A stevdore is burdening trucking again
The move of stevedore Patrick Terminals to charge shippers for mis-declared weights of imported containers has raised road haulage concern about how this will be implemented.
Patrick announced on November 5 that it would enforce a fee of $230 plus GST for any container that is found to be 1 tonne more or less than advised.
The fee is called ‘Weight Amendment Fee for Import Containers - Weigh and Adjustment charge’, that began in Brisbane at the start of the month and is due to be rolled out in other major container ports.
Certainly, overweight containers are a menace to the safety of trucks, ships and container-handling generally but, in a move like that of container access charges, Patrick is levying the fee on haulage firms.