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Lloyd’s List DCN readers were all guns blazing on the ongoing issue of CUSTOMS DUTY and GST PAYMENTS last week. Responding to a letter from Jeff Harrod, published in Lloyd’s List DCN’s print and online editions last week, here’s a sample of what you had to say:

Delivering decades of better roads

THE AUSTRALIAN Government will provide long-term road improvements for trucking operators for decades to come through its massive investment in infrastructure under the 2009-10 Budget.

Hollywood already riding to the rescue

WHEN Richard Phillips, master of the Maersk Alabama, was seized and held at gunpoint by pirates for a few days before being rescued by US Navy Seals, he was instantly hailed a hero.