Freight & Trade Alliance (FTA) last Friday, April 16, attended the launch of a new sea freight LCL service to support Western Australian exporters, across agriculture, horticulture & aquaculture, to reach their overseas markets.
The lack of international passenger aircraft has, as we all know, had a dramatic impact on Western Australian exporters of these and other products. Whilst the International Freight Assistance Mechanism (IFAM) has played a pivotal part in the support of these industries to continue to access overseas markets, not to mention the support of workers in these industries to hold onto their jobs, the cost of airfreight was still prohibitive to many exporters.
However, the ongoing doubt about the qtr to qtr extension of this scheme places stress on the industry and its supply chain.
Tigers International, a major player in the movement of these products via airfreight has now initiated an LCL (less than container load) service via sea, initially to Singapore, to allow exporters to maintain supply to their overseas customers. |