What impact is COVID-19 having on shipping to Australia?
As a long-time global freight forwarder, we're seeing first-hand the primary effects the COVID-19 pandemic is having on air and ocean freight shipping into Australia. These include: Freight shipping delays Lags in pickups Multiple changes to flights In addition to the rather stringent Australian import requirement s, the government-mandated COVID-19 safe practices such as temperature checks, hand sanitizing and social distancing; are without a doubt significantly slowing down our industry resulting in a number of never-before-seen circumstances for our customers. All Transportation Sectors Affected Once on the Australian mainland, the new social distancing laws and hygiene regulations are causing major delays with transit pickup and delivery of freight because truckers can’t make as many deliveries and pickups in one day as they could have done previously. The eCommerce sector of carton and pallet freight has been experiencing massive delays as well due to the high volume of onlin