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2026 Q2 · Quarterly landside review

One operator moved, and moved everything

The quarter had a single mover. Hutchison Ports repriced its entire Brisbane landside sheet on one day, and nobody else on the register changed a published figure.

INDEX · 2026 Q2
106.2
YEAR ON YEAR
CHANGES THIS QUARTER
6
OPERATORS MOVING
1

Quarters like this one are easy to misread. Six published changes sounds like a busy period; all six came from one operator, at one port, on one date. Every other terminal and carrier we track held its published figures through April, May and June.

Hutchison Ports lifted the whole Brisbane sheet effective 20 April: the import terminal access charge from $213.78 to $232.79 per container (+8.9%), the export equivalent from $196.58 to $210.48 (+7.1%), and the VBS booking fee from $49.50 to $54.50 (+10.1%). Three ancillaries moved with them — appointment no-show to $200, the sideloader fee to $89, and the long vehicle surcharge to $55 — between 7.2% and 10.0%.

The ancillaries are the part worth reading twice. They appear only on the invoices of the jobs that incurred them, so they never show up in a blended per-container average. If you run sideloader work or miss slots through Brisbane, your effective increase this quarter was materially above the 8.9% headline on the access charge.

Hutchison also brought a Sydney schedule into force on the same date. We hold the current Sydney figures — $233.36 import access, $209.64 export, $51.20 booking fee — but we did not capture the sheet that preceded them, so we are not quoting a Sydney percentage we cannot evidence.

The carrier side was quiet: no line changed an import detention rate or a free-time rule in the quarter. That is worth stating plainly rather than treating as normal. It means the quarter's entire cost movement came from the terminal side, which is also why the Landside Index rose on terminal access alone.

Largest single change. Hutchison Ports Brisbane VBS booking fee, $49.50 → $54.50 (+10.1%), effective 20 April — the largest percentage move of the quarter.

The quarter's changes

PublisherChangeEffectiveKind
Hutchison PortsHutchison Ports lifts long vehicle surcharge20 Apr 2026rate change
Hutchison PortsHutchison Ports lifts missed timeslot fee20 Apr 2026rate change
Hutchison PortsHutchison Ports lifts side loader fee20 Apr 2026rate change
Hutchison PortsHutchison Ports lifts VBS fee20 Apr 2026rate change
Hutchison PortsHutchison Ports lifts export terminal access charge20 Apr 2026rate change
Hutchison PortsHutchison Ports lifts terminal access charge20 Apr 2026rate change

Read the quarter, catch the next one live.

The review is the retrospective. Alerts are the same intelligence on your lanes, the day a change lands.