The opposition Labor party went into the elections at the end of March with a commitment to stop \u201cexorbitant\u201d port charges, with leader Michael Daley and freight spokesperson Jodi McKay stating that landside prices and charges had \u201cescalated rapidly without explanation or justification\u201d.<\/p>\n
Their position drew backing from Road Freight New South Wales, which has called for a robust price-monitoring system at the port and an independent body to regulate infrastructure and other landside charges after two years of fighting against surcharges imposed by the stevedores.<\/p>\n
However, the incumbent Liberal\/National Coalition Government was re-elected to a third four-year term with a reduced majority. Labor won an increased share of the vote in most districts but was unable to successfully gain support in key marginal electorates.<\/p>\n
Hutchison Ports Sydney announced that its infrastructure levy would increase to A$35.84 per full container after a review of all capital investment revealed \u201cthat the current rate of recovery will not keep pace with future infrastructure requirements and ongoing maintenance\u201d.<\/p>\n
The levy is applied to all full container movements entering or exiting the terminal by both road and rail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Port infrastructure charges becoming an issue in the New South Wales state elections has not stopped Hutchison Ports Sydney announcing that its infrastructure levy is to rise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oceania"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","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=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}