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DP World avoids WA port lockout

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Original article by Lucille Keen
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 8 : 31-Jul-14

DP World has decided not to lock out more than 200 members of the Maritime Union of Australia, who will now be able to attend a stopwork meeting on 31 July 2014. The stevedoring group and the union are engaged in a dispute over the new enterprise bargaining agreement. The union intends to exert pressure on the company by announcing a four-hour stopwork and work bans. The two parties will meet again on 1 August

CORPORATES
DP WORLD AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, MARITIME UNION OF AUSTRALIA, FREMANTLE PORTS, PATRICK CORPORATION LIMITED, ASCIANO LIMITED – ASX AIO, HUTCHISON WHAMPOA LIMITED, MERMAID MARINE AUSTRALIA LIMITED – ASX MRM, WESTERN AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF TRANSPORT, K LINE (JAPAN) LIMITED

Hutchison in bid to end ports duopoly

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Original article by Bridget Carter
The Australian – Page: 18 : 25-Jul-14

Stephen Gumley, CEO in Australia for Hutchison Ports, on 24 July 2014 launched its new container terminal at Port Botany in Sydney. He also said the stevedoring group would seek to win a new ally in the shape of International Container Terminal Services (ICTS), to create increased competition for the current effective duopoly in the sector of Asciano-owned Patrick and DP World Australia. ICTS will open a facility at the Port of Melbourne after 2015. It is based in the Philippines and Hutchison in Hong Kong

CORPORATES
ASCIANO LIMITED – ASX AIO|HUTCHISON PORTS AUSTRALIA PTY LTD|PORT OF MELBOURNE CORPORATION PTY LTD|INTERNATIONAL CONTAINER TERMINAL SERVICES INCORPORATED|PATRICK CORPORATION LIMITED|DP WORLD AUSTRALIA PTY LTD|PORT BOTANY

New rule could prevent strike

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Original article by Gareth Parker
The West Australian – Page: 3 : 1-Jul-14

Unlike other states, Western Australia (WA) did not refer its industrial relations powers to the Commonwealth. However, Federal Employment Minister Eric Abetz has now launched an amendment by regulation rather than legislation to the Fair Work Act, to enable third parties to appear in federal industrial relations cases. This will allow the WA Government as well as iron ore exporters BHP Billiton and Fortescue Metals to ask Fair Work Australia for a halt to strikes at Port Hedland. Deckhands represented by the Maritime Union of Australia are threatening industrial action against Teekay Shipping at the port

CORPORATES
AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF EMPLOYMENT, PORT HEDLAND PORT AUTHORITY, MARITIME UNION OF AUSTRALIA, TEEKAY SHIPPING (AUSTRALIA) PTY LTD, BHP BILLITON LIMITED – ASX BHP, FORTESCUE METALS GROUP LIMITED – ASX FMG, AUSTRALIA. FAIR WORK COMMISSION, WESTERN AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF COMMERCE, AUSTRALIAN MINES AND METALS ASSOCIATION (INCORPORATED)

GrainCorp calls for level playing field

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Original article by Andrew White
The Australian – Page: 22 : 18-Jun-14

The Australian Government recently issued a proposed code of conduct for new, more liberal access regulation at grain export shipping terminals. In areas where new operators have set up, a relaxing of the rules can be applied for to the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission. However Don Taylor, chair of the locally-listed GrainCorp, notes that a loophole will allow overseas groups to enjoy less onerous regulations. He is calling on the Federal Government to address the issue

CORPORATES
GRAINCORP LIMITED – ASX GNC, QUBE HOLDINGS LIMITED – ASX QUB, AUSTRALIAN COMPETITION AND CONSUMER COMMISSION, CARGILL AUSTRALIA LIMITED, CARGILL INCORPORATED, PORT OF BRISBANE CORPORATION, PORT OF NEWCASTLE CORPORATION, PORT KEMBLA PORT CORPORATION, NOBLE GROUP LIMITED, NOBLE RESOURCES AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, SUMITOMO AUSTRALIA LIMITED, SUMITOMO CORPORATION, LOUIS DREYFUS AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, NEWCASTLE AGRI TERMINAL PTY LTD, OLAM AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, GLENCORE XSTRATA PLC, CBH LIMITED, CO-OPERATIVE BULK HANDLING LIMITED