{"id":3580,"date":"2012-05-24T09:53:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T08:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2012\/05\/24\/tasmanians-fights-melbourne-licensing-fee\/"},"modified":"2012-05-24T09:53:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T08:53:00","slug":"tasmanians-fights-melbourne-licensing-fee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2012\/05\/24\/tasmanians-fights-melbourne-licensing-fee\/","title":{"rendered":"Tasmanians fights Melbourne licensing fee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The trade body says that preliminary legal advice suggests the fee is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>The TFLC believes the charge is in effect a tariff increase and a tax on freight, and is unrelated to any licensing function or to any service provided to the Port of Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>The body is asking for exemption for Tasmanian freight, but if unsuccessful will consider a legal challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tasmanian Freight Logistics Council is considering legal action to block a proposed port licensing fee, which will affect freight moving to Tasmania through Melbourne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-3580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oceania"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3580"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}