Move comes after OOCL hikes rate from Southeast Asia to Australia
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Sims warns on greedy privatisation and backs transport reform
Roads, ports and shopping dominate regulatory conference speech by ACCC boss
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ACCC calls for port link infrastructure reform
As truck turnaround times fall, Sims uses stevedoring report release to back peak pricing and other efficiency goals
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Sims argues for road charging reform
ACCC boss says efficient infrastructure investment demands new ways of handling taxes and congestion
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Sims backs road pricing in congestion fight
State governments continue to oppose charging as a weapon against congestion, the idea has high-profile support
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Graincorp gets long-term port access green light
ACCC agrees to allow bulk grain handler Graincorp to offer long-term contracts at its east coast export terminals
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ACCC gives up the fight over Franklins
ACCC rules out appealing to the High Court to quash Metcash's takeover of Franklins
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Metcash to digest Franklins logistics after court win
Metcash’s supply chain will continue swallowing the load of 80 NSW and ACT more stores, now that the full bench of the Federal Court has rejected Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s application to prevent Metcash from acquiring the Franklins supermarket business.
In doing so, the Federal Court held that state markets were part of a broader national market, the point that Metcash has always argued.
“We will continue the process of seeking and reviewing expressions of interest for the stores, which are being sold to independent retailers,” Metcash CEO Andrew Reitzer says.
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ACCC warning on port capacity and landside performance
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has raised the spectre of Melbourne port capacity constraints by 2015 imitating those experienced recently in Sydney.
It also notes that stevedores lack any incentive to improve poor performance in servicing trucks, except in Sydney under the Port Botany Landside Improvement Strategy (PBLIS). Commenting on the ACCC’s annual report on stevedoring operations, Container stevedoring monitoring report no. 13, Chairman Rod Sims urges the Victorian Government to embrace stevedoring newcomer Hutchison Port Holdings, which is due to start operations in Sydney and Brisbane in 2013.
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It also notes that stevedores lack any incentive to improve poor performance in servicing trucks, except in Sydney under the Port Botany Landside Improvement Strategy (PBLIS). Commenting on the ACCC’s annual report on stevedoring operations, Container stevedoring monitoring report no. 13, Chairman Rod Sims urges the Victorian Government to embrace stevedoring newcomer Hutchison Port Holdings, which is due to start operations in Sydney and Brisbane in 2013.
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ACCC backs wheat terminal access pledges
Agri-bussinesses with export terminals agree to four-point arrangement in dealings with exporters
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