The current state of shipping trade in Australia & world wide & the impact on our goods and services

Our speaker next week will be John Park from the Freight and Trade Alliance, where he is Head of Business Operations.  He was previously Regional Manager WA for the Customs Brokers and Forwarders Council of Australia Inc. for 21 years.  Huge increases in the costs and complexity of international shipping that began when our State and Federal governments quarantined Australia after the outbreak of COVID 19, still exist.  Indeed this is one of the reasons Shelter Box doesn’t hold any stock in Australia now, as Mike Greenslade explained to our Club a few weeks ago.