Baird Maritime and Work Boat World Magazine’s Neil Baird says Australian shipping has become a “no-go” for investors.
Prior to the election, Labor promised it would establish a fleet of up to 12 Australian flagged and crewed merchant vessels.
“Australian shipping has become a no-go area for investors, particularly experienced ship owners,” Mr Baird told Sky News host Andrew Bolt.
“No ship owner in his right mind will invest in Australian coastal shipping, apart from to Tasmania.
“Certainly not for international shipping.”
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Slow news day…
I think this guy has no idea what Marxism is
Maybe Labour can buy us some old Chinese Junk ships. To go with the rest of the junk, they tell us.
Once the wars in Ukraine and Gaza are over and BRICS trades in whatever currency they end up choosing.
We will be struggling to trade with most of the world.
I suggest Neil Baird (expert) go and spend 6 months working on a flag of convenience ship.
The mua should be blacklisted as a threat to Australia
What does the MUA do now there are no ships? Who do they represent? Seems like a rather pointless union.
My socialist Australian friend is voting against Labour for the first time in his 81 years. Why? To keep the Jew hating Gazans out of the country.
Ah, good to know you guys have your own version of our US Jones Act, to gum up the works…
No international Australia flag ship…! Except for tug boat that are going to Singapore for repairs like Qantas airplane.
Explain how shipping Australia’s food and wealth to the negroid countries benefits me or that I don’t already own it because of ancestry privilege and that they don’t owe me money for it. Do they need import more dictators Chinese type junk so reject shops and other outlets can keep life quality low. No one wants to pay the money so little Jews can peddle their wears and not pay ancestors tax on people that weren’t taught to house them by the public education system and refuse to accept their existence or propaganda. I don’t welcome the people that are a cross between a zoo a meteor accident and the entire world being stupid that arrived in the 1980s. I’ll start work when Australia goes to war in Australia to remove its feral human zoo space junk accident.
Good time to start manufacturing again?
Union again? They r crooks looking after their own interests. How to make their wallets fat without having to work.
Ships unload fuel everyday to Melbourne ports for the airports 2 day stop on supply chain issues no plans leaving Melbourne we are a country controlled by morons
Labour = traitors 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Lack of shipping is a matter of national defence, the Chinese can cut us off on a phone call, wonder weapons like nuclear submarines fighter jets ect cannot beat that phone call. Once we have our own ships then we need these weapons not before.
Army-protected? Don’t you mean Navy?
An island with no shipping.
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Only thing Aussies makes is coffee.
The best option to avoid the MUA is to sell the ports to China. At least they are more compromising and easier to seal with than your fellow citizens in that union
Economy tanking completely whilst our Labour government is intent on giving up on Australia because they are spending so much time in parliament not doing anything.
The Albanese govt is going to do absolutely nothing Andrew.
I knew nothing about this till now and before it got going i predicted it would be the Unions.
This is a slice of what will happen to all aspects of the economy if these communists keep getting elected.
But equality will be achieved. We will all be dirt poor not just a few so that makes it all OK.
Cfmeu mwu same brush CRIMINAL COMO SCUM
I have to retire on some South Sea Island because our food is so badly contaminated with pesticides and our government is promoting this.
Australia takes care of the world, but australia never takes care of australians. Even liberals dont care, we are one of the richest countries, but its just a saying with these clowns.
Why would you invest in shipping when this government can put the whole country on lockdown. Besides China has the best shipping routes and fleets.
So the union is endangering the safety of Australians.
Albo as Minister for Indistrial Relations gave his Union, Maritime Union of Australia, MONOPOLY to crew any international ship that touches one Aussie port and goes to another Aussie port. Nobody talks about how that increased prices for everything in Australia. International shipping companies even now pay their crew to fly out from Australia, pay Aussie crew to run ship on domestic routes then fly in international crew to sail out of Australia.
If you want to see a choice piece of protectionist legislation, read up on the Jones Act in the US. It restricts all shipping between US ports to US flagged and crewed vessels. When New England needed additional supplies of LNG in a recent winter, they could not get any from the Gulf Coast and had to go to Trinidad and purchase the LNG on the international market. Why? Because there are no US flagged and crewed LNG tankers.