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EASTERN seaboard empty container parks (ECPs) this month have begun levying an “infrastructure surcharge” on all boxes - but the impost has no direct relationship to the parks’ reported financial plight.
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ECPs introducing the levy are, so far, all located on port corporation property in Brisbane, Port Botany and Melbourne and the move follows increased land rental charges imposed by the corporations over the past five years, the parks say.
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