Tag: Levy

Human Rights at Sea informs that the introduction of a dedicated maritime levy in New Zealand is visibly maximizing support for seafarers.

The world’s most climate vulnerable countries (CVF) from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, the Middle East and the Pacific, have signed the ‘Dhaka-Glasgow Declaration of the Climate Vulnerable Forum’, calling the IMO to set a greenhouse gas levy on shipping.

In the past months, Human Rights at Sea, along with in-country partners, has been discreetly pursuing its Maritime Levy Campaign in Australia.

Maritime New Zealand informed that changes to fees and the levy came into effect on 1 July. For this reason, the organization has put together the following questions and answers to guide operators through the Maritime Levy and fees process.

AMSA will be the only service provider under the National System for Domestic Commercial Vessel Safety. Australia will allocate an additional $10 million funding for the national system, which means no taxes to the industry for the first three years of AMSA's service delivery, in order to help all operators as services transition. 

The New Zealand Customs Service issued a notice stating that, effective 1 January 2016, a border Clearance Levy will be paid when passengers purchase air or cruise tickets for travel overseas or on arrival in New Zealand on a private aircraft or yacht. The levy includes GST and is paid by each person arriving and departing New Zealand:

No Shipping line is charging Ebola levy

The Australian Government announced in the 2014 Budget that it will reduce the rate of the Protection of the Sea Levy effective from 1 July 2014.

The decision will take effect from 1 July 2014 The Australian Government has announced that it will reduce the rate of the Protection of the Sea levy. The decision will take effect from 1 July 2014 and will save ships visiting Australian ports around $9 million a year.Removing the 2010 hike in the levy on ships entering ports will ease the cost of doing business in Australia and will put downward pressure on prices for consumers.The former Labor Government increased the levy for shipping companies from 11.25 cents per net registered tonne to 14.25 cents to meet part of the cost of cleaning up the oil spill from the Pacific Adventurer, which occurred off the south east coast of Queensland in March 2009.Since those costs have been more than met, the Coalition Government can reverse that increase.The three cent reduction in the levy will help to tackle the competitive challenges the shipping industry faces.The levy applies to ships of more than 24 metres in length entering an Australian port carrying more than 10 tonnes of oil in bulk as fuel or cargo.It is payable quarterly and is used by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority to fund the National Plan for ...

The Abbott Government will reduce the rate of the Protection of the Sea levy.The decision will take effect from 1 July 2014 and will save ships visiting Australian ports around $9 million a year.