{"id":3604,"date":"2012-07-15T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2012\/07\/15\/consultant-slams-australian-port-productivity\/"},"modified":"2012-07-15T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-15T09:30:00","slug":"consultant-slams-australian-port-productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2012\/07\/15\/consultant-slams-australian-port-productivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Consultant slams Australian port productivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The report \u2018The effect of wages on Australian port costs and their competitiveness in an international context\u2019, suggests Australia has comparatively high labour costs and low efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>Ports Australia chief executive David Anderson warned that unless productivity improvements accompanied wage increases, port costs would begin to seriously hamper the economy.<\/p>\n<p>The Maritime Union of Australia disputes the findings, saying other studies reflect improvements in productivity as a result of capital investment and changed labour practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian port performance has come under fire from a report by economic researchers Castalia which suggests productivity at Adelaide, Brisbane, Fremantle, Melbourne and Sydney is not keeping pace with wage increases.<\/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-3604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oceania"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3604","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=3604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3604"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}