abc.net.au/news/esperance-wa-port-tug-master-foreign-multinational-competition/101805572A small-scale Esperance tugboat operator in West Australia's south-west is struggling to stay afloat as multinational businesses encroach on Australian ports.The Maritime Union of Australia says multinational tug operators have a "chokehold" on the Australian supply chain
Mackenzie's Marine and Towing is family owned and has been operating in the port for the past 50 years. The fourth-generation tug master has followed in her father's and grandfather's footsteps, working in one of the state's few deep-water ports capable of handling cape-size vessels. The Esperance-based business recently lost a five-year Port of Bunbury contract to competitor Svitzer, the tug operator owned by global shipping giant Maersk.
Maritime Union of Australia WA branch secretary Will Tracy said monopoly operators like Svitzer were the reality of the business but brought "inherent" problems.
Grubby government refusing to support local Australian owned companies. Bunbury lost to Dutch shipping giant, the same dutch giant that attempted to lookout the Australian workforce indefinitely before Christmas. Do your job ABC, pathetic.
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