u think Aussie is country of fair playing field to all.
No lah after u know the intetnational shipping industry
in Aussie is protected by---Aussie government!!!
Shippers have made noises but the Aussie government
still say no in Aug 2006 for open competition.
Sg PSA is controlled by Sg Govt.But the shipping cost is
open to Global competition.Why?80 % of
containers
volume is transhipment,ie not origination from Sg
but tranfer to another ship in Sg and forward to other
country.
If our cost is high,they can transfer in other country.
It handles about one-fifth of the world's total container
transhipment throughput.
Govt to maintain shipping cost originatiing fr Sg at
reasonable
level.If not,how to implement double manufacturing
output by 2015.(the year is correct?)
1.read
the news'' Open shipping competition plan rejected'',August 4, 2006
.
www.smh.com.au
The federal government has rejected a Productivity Commission
plan to boost competition in the shipping industry....It follows
the commission's report of last year that argued shipping and cargo
companies should be exposed to more competition including greater
oversight by the nation's competition watchdog, by repealing Part
10 altogether...
Part 10 gives ocean cargo companies immunity from key parts of
Australia's trade practices law, effectively allowing them to
strike agreements that provide regular cargo shipping services to
Australian exporters and importers.
2.GOVERNMENT
RESPONSE TO PRODUCTIVITY COMMISSION REPORT
REVIEW OF PART X OF THE TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974
(INTERNATIONAL LINER CARGO SHIPPING)
MELBOURNE,4 August 2006
Contact:
Renae Stoikos Treasurers Office 03 9650 0244
Kylie Butler Mr Truss Office 02 6277 7680
3. Shippers
urged Aussie govt scrap the protection law of shipping
industry
We(Western Australian Shippers Council
Incorporated (WASC) and the Chamber of Commerce
& Industry of Western Australia (CCIWA) ) have seen
in recent years a liking by shipping
lines to form Discussion Agreements, which in the view
of CCIWA and WASC are formed in an effort to limit
competition on price and capacity through
combining conference and non-conference carriers
in a specific trade.Through Part X protection shipping
lines in this way can discuss the freight rate levels
each is charging which we believe results in a reduction
of competition in that trade. With the advent of
Discussion Agreements we have also seen a
considerable increase in the number of additional
charges imposed primarily on Australian Importers
as well as frequent and considerable freight rate
increases. Such practices have a severe
detrimental effect on trade and complaints
against specific Discussion Agreements have been
raised on more than one occasion with the
Australian Consumer and Competition Commission (ACCC).
CCIWA and WASC believe that there is no longer
any justification for the liner shipping industry to
be granted any special provisions in relation
to Australian competition policy and should, as
with all other industry sectors, be subject to
all aspects of the Trade Practices Act.
11th August 2004
A REVIEW OF PART X OF THE TRADE PRACTICES
ACT 1974
A joint submission by the Western Australian Shippers Council
Incorporated (WASC) and the Chamber of Commerce & Industry
of
Western Australia (CCIWA)
to the Productivity Commission.
AUGUST 2004
Address: 180 Hay Street, East Perth, WA 6004
Phone: 08 9365 7637
Fax: 08 9365 7616
4.Reject competition,short term gain,but long term
pain.Adverse and irreversiable effect may appear
on next generation.
Open to competition,short term pain,but,hopefully
,long term gain.The gain may appear only
in next generation.
Which one u prefer?
PSA handles about one-fifth of the world's total container
transhipment throughput.
