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Proposed changes to terminal access charges in Australia have met with stinging criticism from shipping interests who condemned it as “a truly awful policy”.

In a speech to the Australian Productivity Commission, which in September published the first draft of its Lifting Productivity at Australia’s container ports: between water, wharf and warehouse report, Shipping Australia CEO Melwyn Noronha said forcing shipping companies to pay terminal access charges “is a terrible recommendation”.

He said: “It amounts to a further subsidy of a sector, ...