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80,000 signatures are being delivered to Parliament House in Sydney to demand that Barry O’Farrell’s government support a national ten cent deposit on beverage containers. The petitions will be delivered by Boomerang Alliance members including Clean Up Australia, Greenpeace, the Cooks River Association and Total Environment Centre. They will also be joined by the Uniting [...]
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If you had worked for a branch of Mayne Nickless Limited listed below prior to the company’s demise in the 1990s, your former colleagues would like to hear from you. 32-year Mayne Nickless veteran Allan Corben, who retired two years ago after 47 years in the transport industry, says: “I worked for Mayne Nickless Ltd [...]
Continue reading …After a couple of false starts, laws to establish the Federal Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) as the national maritime safety regulator will definitely go ahead on July 1. Initially, all three of the national safety regulators – heavy vehicle, rail and maritime – were planned to come into service on January 1 this year, [...]
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An action plan to reduce workplace injury and illness in the NSW road freight transport industry has been launched by WorkCover NSW. The industry is one of the states’ 10 highest risk industries with 5,512 injuries and illness and 29 fatalities in the three years to 2010, costing the NSW workers’ compensation scheme $157 million. [...]
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The 2013 Budget has failed Australia’s trucking businesses because it does not reverse the government’s plan to extend the carbon tax to the trucking industry, Australian Trucking Association chief executive Stuart St Clair said. The fuel used by trucking businesses is currently exempt from the carbon tax. The government plans to extend the tax to [...]
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New funding of $1.7 million recently announced by the federal and New South Wales governments for trials of Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) technologies has been welcomed by national peak body Intelligent Transport Systems Australia. The Heavy Vehicle Safety and Productivity Program funds pioneering projects involving heavy vehicle to infrastructure communication technologies to make roads [...]
Continue reading …Coca Cola Amatil (CCA) has attacked the Northern Territory’s cash-for-containers recycling scheme, saying it’s old fashioned and inefficient, and will increase the price of soft drinks. CCA chairman David Gonski said the company’s own scheme will be much more effective and cost less. Mr Gonski said at the company’s annual general meeting in Sydney on [...]
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Smart Conference & Expo is almost here – don’t miss out on the early bird special closing this Friday, 3 May 2013! Australia’s leading supply chain event will take place on 26-27 June 2013 at the Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre. Early bird registration for Smart Conference & Expo closes this Friday, 3 May 2013. [...]
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Ultra large container vessels (ULCV) are making large ships available for smaller trade routes.
Continue reading …The unanimous vote (motion below) in the Senate to support continued operation of the Northern Territory’s Cash for Containers program is a welcome breakthrough, after the court win by Coke two weeks ago, said the Boomerang Alliance. “Coke’s action in the court was deplorable and has led to widespread community outrage. The vote today in [...]
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