Streamlining Truck Turnarounds and Lowering Costs in Australia’s Landside Container Transport through Collaboration

Watch this on-demand market update featuring insights from our co-hosted session with Tom Jensen from Freight & Trade Alliance, Hamish Grant, our Country Manager for Australia, and Tom Storey, our Regional Manager for APAC. In this session, we explore the key challenges faced by transport operators in Australia and how container reuse and exchange can help ease some of the pressure for them.

The session covered the following key topics:

1. Overview of FTA & APSA: A highlight on their role in representing freight forwarders, custom brokers, and importers, and their advocacy efforts.
2. Challenges in Australia: Increases in terminal access charges and empty container park fees, and their impact on the industry as well as the potential impact of enterprise agreements and industrial action, highlighting the risk of disruption due to protected industrial action.
3. Introduction to MatchBox Exchange: Overview of reuse and exchange services, key benefits and global footprint along with an emphasis on the growing trend of exchanges
4. Product updates: Discussion on product improvements, both released and upcoming.