Chaos with Beijing Ground Services at Beijing Capital Airport
Chaos with Beijing Ground Services at Beijing Capital Airport Freightplus has been advised to avoid booking air cargo with any airlines that use Beijing Ground Services (BGS) as their ground handling agent. There is a risk that clients...
New Case Study added to website – 20 November 2010
10 Units 140-tonne Caterpillar Dump Trucks from La Negra, Chile to Bunbury, Australia Brief To provide cost effective door to door movement of 10 x CAT 793C dump trucks from a mine site in Chile to Bunbury, Western Australia, within specific, lim...
DP WORLD AND PATRICK INFRASTRUCTURE CHARGES (01 October 2010)
Melbourne and Sydney, Australia ‘DP World’ and ‘Patrick’ an increase in charges for booking wharf slots for import and export containers. The additional charges will the cost for slot fees increase ...
Freightplus on Facebook (05 October 2010)
Freightplus now on Facebook Freightplus Freightplus now has a unique url on Facebook: www.facebook.com/Freightplus Visit for current events, industry-related video clips and plenty of photographs from Freightplus shipments. To learn more a...
Heavy Machinery Shipping Advice - Enzine Magazine (30 September 2010)
Because, in order to ship something large, you have to: acquire permits, commit appraisals, make sure that you comply with the quarantine standards of the target country, et cetera. There is also paperwork involved, and it is most likely too much to ...
AQIS Re-Export Numbers On The Rise (13 July 2010)
AQIS Reports a Significant Increase in Re-Exports of Used Machinery 2010 ;Year-to-Date Average Almost Triple 2009 Average The incidence of used machinery being rejected at Australia's borders - ;and re-exported at the importer's expense - ;is on the rise.
AUSTRALIA : New AQIS Brochure for Machinery Import Requirements (13 July 2010)
Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service Publishes New Brochure AQIS is preparing to release a revamped brochure, aimed at providing detailed information on the stringent requirements for shipping used machinery to Australia: http://www.daff.gov....
AQIS Issues Warning - Used Machinery Shipped to Australia Being Re-Exported (20 April 2010)
Unacceptable Levels of Quarantine Risk Material Being Found on Used Machinery The Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service has issued a warning that unacceptable levels of QRM are being found on recent used machinery shipments entering Australia a...
Fremantle to Darwin Shipping Link Restored (24 Mar 2010)
WA shipping link restored Bookings available through Freightplus Western Australia’s north-west once again has ...
New Appointment - Atlanta (17 Feb 2010)
South America Specialist Joins Freightplus (USA) Inc Steve Townsend, President & C.O.O. of Freightplus (USA), Inc. is delighted to announce the appointment of IVAN PENA as Sales Director for North and South America. Ivan has been in the freight b...
New rules for ALL sea cargo going to or via the USA (29 Dec 2009)
Importer Security Filing (ISF) "10 + 2" and "5+2" U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) has issued new regulations implementing the “Importer Security Filing and Additional Carrier Requi...
Beluga, Lampke Form Joint Venture (18 Dec 2009)
Beluga Projects Agency to focus on project and heavy lift cargo Germany-based liner agent Peter W. Lampke formed a joint venture with Beluga Chartering to be called the Beluga Projects Agency. The partners will focus on project and heavy li...
Wedding bells for Craig
Surprise Wedding for Freightplus Fremantle Manager, Craig Thompson Craig and Eileen became Mr and Mrs Thompson, in a private ceremony with family members and close friends, on Saturday 12th December, 2009. Craig Thompson joined the Freig...
Asia-Europe Container Rates Rise ( 16 December 2009 )
Volume decline slows in October, reducing container imbalance The year long decline in Asia-Europe container traffic is slowing and freight rates are rising, according to the latest figures from ocean carriers. Shipments from Asia to Europe ...
Australian Customs Service improves import clearance times (10 Dec 2009)
Australian Customs and Border Protection have distributed the following media release relating to its second time release study (TRS). http://www.afif.asn.au/pdf/2009/news/101209_TRS_2008.pdf
Baltic's largest gain in 7 weeks (16 November 2009)
The Baltic Dry Index, the measure of shipping costs for commodities, posted its biggest weekly advance in a seven-week streak on a 'tight' supply of capesize ships to haul coal and ir...
AQIS revises requirements for plywood and veneer packaging ( 10 November 2009 )
This notice was issued by the Australian Federation of International Forwarders, 10/11/2009 Revised AQIS requirements for Pl...
Charter space available ex Europe to SE Asia and SE Australia (4 November 2009)
Special Position MV Beluga Faculty Beluga Shipping has a modern, multi-purpose vessel available for immediate part-charter from Europe / Mediterranean through to South East Asia and / or South East Australia. The vessel, newly built in 2009, has a...
New Freightplus appointment in Thailand (15 October 2009)
Freightplus representative in Bangkok On October 13th, at Pattaya, Mr Nattaphol ('Bird') Meesaeng was appointed as exclusive agency representative for Thailand, for Freightplus. Bird - a licensed Customs broker - is no newcomer to Freigh...
Rio Tinto set to increase Ivanhoe holding (14 October 2009)
Rio Tinto Ltd is set to increase its holding in Canadian company Ivanhoe Mines to 19.9 per cent. Mining agreement signed with the government of Mongolia The $US388 million ($427 million) investment comes after a 2006 agreement in which Rio T...
Stronger AUD means more machinery being shipped to Australia (14 October 2009)
Australian Dollar Hits 14 month High The Aussie dollar posted a new 14-month high during the offshore session amid across-the-board US dollar weakness. At 7am AEDT, the local currency was trading at USD 0.9052/55, down...
New container detention policy from Swire Shipping (New Zealand cargoes) 10 September 2009
Shipping in containers to or from New Zealand? It's easy to get caught in the detention trap if either shipper or receiver hangs on to a container for longer than expected. If you are shipping containers with Swire Shipping, to or from New Z...
Important New Import Regulation - Indonesia 1st September 2009
Timber to Indo MUST be ISPM 15 Standard From September 1st, 2009, shipments to Indonesia fall under new regulation Ministry of Agriculture Indonesia Number.12/Permentan/OT.140/2/2009 stipulating that all inbound cargo using wood pack...
Major Economies Rebounding (28 August 2009)
Positive Results for Major Markets German exports, which have traditionally driven the country's economic growth, surged by seven percent in June compared to the previous month, representing the fastest such growth in almost three years. Impor...
AAL Announces Additional WA Service (25 August 2009)
Additional Service Japan to WA Austral Asia Line today announced an additional Western Australia Voyage to commence in the middle of September, to better service the needs of its clients As such the Cape Hobart v81s09 has th...
AQIS - Entry Management Processing Fee (20 August 2009)
AQIS has now issued a notice to industry clarifying the application of the Entry Management processing fee which has been effective from 1st July, 2009. http://www.afif.asn.au/pdf/2009/news/IndustryNotice51_%202009.pdf
Regular AQIS Updates On-line (10 July 2009)
AQIS "ICON Alerts Page" Regular Updates from the Australian Quarantine & Inspection Service http://www.aqis.gov.au/icon/asp/ex_alertscontent.asp You can now stay regularly updated - direct from the hors...
Pre-purchase Machinery Assessments from only USD 450.00 (1 June 2009)
Comprehensive Pre-purchase Machinery Assessments Freightplus has trained personnel, able to travel cost-effectively to many worldwide destinations from bases in Oceania, Asia and Europe, to provide comprehensive condition...
New Freightplus office in Bremen (1 May 2009)
A New Beginning Freightplus has had an operational presence in Europe for some time now. In 2003, we commenced exclusive cooperation with an appointed agent and, from December 2005, this agent began to operate under the Freight...