One of Australia’s most well-known live export companies has emerged from voluntary administration with a new owner. North Australian Cattle Company (NACC) was founded in 1980 and run by Elders for nearly three decades until its sale to a Chinese-Australian buyer in 2017. Earlier this year the company went into voluntary administration with debts reportedly of $3.6 million. The…
DESPITE challenging times in Australia’s trade relationship with China positive developments are still occurring, evidenced last week by a shipment of cattle from Western Australia to Hainan Island which marked the opening of a new trade pathway that has been some six years in the making. The development has significance not just for the future…
THE largest shipment of cattle bound for Vietnam has left the Port of Townsville this month, with demand from the south-east Asian country contributing to a live export boom. The world’s biggest purpose-built livestock carrier Ocean Shearer departed Townsville with 13,116 head of cattle on January 9 and will reach its destinations in southern and…