A supplier of tropical lobsters is taking a risky gamble on a lucrative new offshore market as trade tensions with China threaten to throw business in disarray.
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Premium Content  A CAIRNS supplier of tropical lobsters is taking a risky gamble on a new market as trade tensions with China threaten to throw business in disarray. Torres Straits Seafood has been in business supplying fresh caught fish from island fishers for 28 years. Since 2000 their biggest market and source of revenue has been China, but the ban on Australian exports, which currently includes lobster has forced them to seek new options. The company is gearing up for their first export job via Singapore Airlines to Bangkok in Thailand, shipping 400kg of tropical rock lobster on Friday.
Business by Jack Lawrie
Premium Content  A CAIRNS supplier of tropical lobsters is taking a risky gamble on a new market as trade tensions with China threaten to throw business in disarray. Torres Straits Seafood has been in business supplying fresh caught fish from island fishers for 28 years. Since 2000 their biggest market and source of revenue has been China, but the ban on Australian exports, which currently includes lobster has forced them to seek new options. The company is gearing up for their first export job via Singapore Airlines to Bangkok in Thailand, shipping 400kg of tropical rock lobster on Friday.
SPECIALIST senior police leading a statewide juvenile crime crackdown will visit Cairns and Townsville as their top priorities as delinquent repeat offenders run amok in the city. The Far North and Townsville have been earmarked for special attention by police Commissioner Katarina Carroll and the head of the new Youth Crime Taskforce Assistant Commissioner Cheryl Scanlon who are expected to visit both cities imminently. Cairns will also receive the first school-based police support officers revealed during the State Government s announcement on Tuesday morning. Â Far North police Acting Supt Mark Lingwood, Chief Supt Brian Huxley and Supt Chris Hodgman speak about juvenile crime.
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Subscriber only HALF the staff at Cairns Airport will receive back pay after the organisation made an error and self-reported. And a further 80 staff employed as far back as 2012 will also get paid what they are owed - plus interest. Asked how much was owed, North Queensland Airport chief executive Richard Barker said it s in the hundreds of thousands . There was a misinterpretation of the enterprise bargaining agreement, he said. North Queensland Airports chief executive Richard Baker apologised for payroll errors and said staff would receive payment corrections. Picture: Stewart McLean. We thought, and so did (employees), that if their salary was higher than the minimum that it covered off all the allowances. We got the wording wrong.