A call for a redesign of supply chains to this country.
Empty shipping containers are piling up at ports around the country, and shipping companies are starting to hike up fees for returning them.
Custom Brokers and Freight Forwarders Federation president, Chris Edwards, told Mike Hosking we're being left behind Australia, which has freight rates about half of what we pay.
He says big companies like Fonterra need international ships to come directly here, but most don't.
“I wonder if it’s time to think that Australia becomes a hub, we become a spoke, and we send a whole lot of small feeder vessels back and forth across the Tasman.”
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