- Publisher: Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation.
- Number Of Pages: 58
- Publication Date: August 2002
- ISBN / ASIN: 0 642 58515 6
- EAN: 1440-6845
The uptake of technology on the ship and shore-side interfaces of the Australian waterfront have
considerable implications for the costs and quality of the service provided to Australian agricultural
exporters. RIRDC accordingly commissioned Access Economics to undertake an assessment of the
uptake of container-related technology and management systems within stevedoring and its immediate
ship and shore-side interfaces in three Australian ports, and to compare that performance against that
of selected international ports. The focus is on containerised agricultural exports, with particular
emphasis on meat, dairy, wool and cotton exports. Access Economics was assisted in this task by
Maunsell Australia.
This study found that there has been a marked improvement in recent years and that the three main
Australian ports compare very favourably with the benchmarked international ports in the application
of new technologies. This is a pleasing outcome, but there are areas where further improvements can
be made – particularly further up the supply chain and in trying to ensure that technologies that
international shipping companies might introduce are consistent with the technologies in use in
Australia.
This project was funded from RIRDC Core Funds which are provided by the Federal Government.
This report is an addition to RIRDC’s diverse range of over 800 research publications, forms part of
our Global Competitiveness R&D program, which aims to identify important impediments to the
development of a globally competitive Australian agricultural sector and support research that will
lead to options and strategies that will remove these impediments.
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