WA businesses bear the brunt as supply chain crisis hits our shores

WA businesses bear the brunt as supply chain crisis hits our shores

From China to Singapore to Freo to Melbourne then back across the Nullarbor by rail – guess how long it took to get one sea container of equine fencing to Perth?

  • byClaire Ottaviano

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Clive Palmer’s plan to build Titanic II runs into another iceberg

Clive Palmer’s plan to build Titanic II runs into another iceberg

The builders of the original Titanic,Harland&Wolff,have put a big dent in Palmer’s $1 billion effort to recreate the ill-fated ocean liner.

  • byElizabeth Knight
Faulty GPS nearly drove bulk carrier into the Great Barrier Reef

Faulty GPS nearly drove bulk carrier into the Great Barrier Reef

An investigation into a near-grounding of a bulk carrier off the Queensland coast has found the humans on board were too easily misled by the ship’s computer.

  • bySean Parnell
WA warned to shop for Christmas early as shipping shortages stall stock
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WA warned to shop for Christmas early as shipping shortages stall stock

Shortages of all goods imported by sea are expected to worsen,as consumers across the state are warned to get ahead of their Christmas shopping by planning to start looking six months early.

  • byClaire Ottaviano
Get ready for empty shelves again as supply chain crisis looms for WA
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Fremantle

Get ready for empty shelves again as supply chain crisis looms for WA

Three issues that wreaked havoc on global trade during the COVID-19 pandemic supply chain crisis are back,and are expected to remain for the rest of the year.

  • bySarah Brookes
End to a secret deal that locked in coal exports and Sydney truck traffic
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Coal

End to a secret deal that locked in coal exports and Sydney truck traffic

The Port of Newcastle has paid $13 million so that it is no longer prohibited from competing with Port Botany and can diversify away from coal.

  • byCaitlin Fitzsimmons
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Roads,trains,ports:Major disruption warning ahead of planned pro-Palestine protests

Roads,trains,ports:Major disruption warning ahead of planned pro-Palestine protests

The groups behind Monday’s global A15 Action protests have threatened to blockade “major choke points in the economy”,aiming to cause maximum economic impact.

  • byChris Vedelago andClay Lucas
One Sydney ferry’s indicators froze. Two days later,another had a fault near Gladesville Bridge

One Sydney ferry’s indicators froze. Two days later,another had a fault near Gladesville Bridge

An Indonesian-built vessel suffered a mechanical fault that led to it unexpectedly heading to starboard and then to port.

  • byMatt O'Sullivan
Stuck ships and supply chain inflation
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Stuck ships and supply chain inflation

Global supply chains don’t have as much slack as they did,say,last summer,after pandemic disruptions were mostly a thing of the past,because Baltimore isn’t the only problem.

  • byPaul Krugman
The $16 million tugs on front line against calamity on Sydney Harbour

The $16 million tugs on front line against calamity on Sydney Harbour

Engage Rascal is one of two new state-of-the-art tugs working to prevent a disaster like the bridge collapse in Baltimore.

  • byTim Barlass
More than 150 cattle died on a ship from Darwin. It could result in a diplomatic debacle

More than 150 cattle died on a ship from Darwin. It could result in a diplomatic debacle

Was the true death figure kept secret from the Indonesians? Neither the Australian government nor shipping company will say.

  • byZach Hope