SOURCE: https://www.fullyloaded.com.au/industry-news/2004/pressure-mounts-on-stevedores-over-container-access-charging?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ATN%20EDM%2020%2004%202020&utm_term=list_fullyloaded_newsletter
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Freight & Trade Alliance/Australian Peak Shippers Association (APSA/FTA) sees the move as possibly opening the way for regulation of terminal access charges, also called 'infrastructure surcharges' if the Constance approach is again ignored .
"Events have transpired to be the catalyst required to fast-track the long awaited implementation of regulation to stop the use of Infrastructure Surcharges," FTA director Paul Zalai says.
"Our message to state governments is simple in what is shaping up to be an extended period of economic uncertainty 'please no more reports, the issues are obvious and we now need decisive action'."
FTA/APSA points out that states other than NSW would need new legislation to allow for control on access charging but that provision already exists in NSW.
FTA/APSA says it received advice from Freight Victoria CEO Praveen Reddy last week that we will receive "a formal correspondence outlining the Victorian government's formal response" to the Deloitte Access Economics report on port charges.