MCA supports continued liberalisation of coastal shipping
Published by Stephanie Roker,
Editor
Dry Bulk,
The Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) supports the continued liberalisation of coastal shipping.
While work is already underway to reform Australia’s current coastal shipping regulatory regime, much more needs to be done to revitalise the country’s local shipping industry.
More competition in coastal shipping means lower prices for consumers and reduced input costs for business.
This means a competitive trading system in coastal shipping creates jobs and increases our global competitiveness.
The Productivity Commission has estimated that removing restrictions on coastal shipping would boost the Australian economy by up to AUS$36 million/yr.
Any proposal to further regulate coastal shipping would further drive up costs for all Australian businesses and householders by reducing competition in coastal shipping.
Australia’s mining sector is by far Australia’s largest user of coastal shipping, with bulk commodities accounting for 80% of Australia’s coastal shipping trade by tonnage.
For some commodity producers, the cost of shipping final product around Australia is already about the same as shipping from overseas to Australia. One company reported a 63% increase in shipping freight rates interstate in just the first year of the 2012 regime.
Australia’s minerals industry supports reforms that were proposed in the Shipping Legislation Amendment Bill 2015, blocked by the Senate, which would introduce a single permit system allowing truly competitive trading conditions for all vessels and ensure that all vessels are subject to the same conditions of access and operation.
Read the article online at: https://www.drybulkmagazine.com/shipping/24012019/mca-supports-continued-liberalisation-of-coastal-shipping/
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