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World gliding championships not impacted by snap ports closure Narromine is set to host the 37th FAI World Gliding Championships in a few weeks.
DP World, Australia’s busy port in Sydney.
PHOTO: AUSTRALIAN GLIDING TEAM.
PHOTO: DPWA.
By SHARON BONTHUYS ORGANISERS of the 37th Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) World Gliding Championships have confi rmed that last Friday’s snap ports closure will not impact their event which starts in Narromine later this month. The country’s largest ports operator, DP World Australia, closed its operations in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Fremantle late last week following a cyber-breach – effectively halting the movement of freight in and out of all of those ports. International gliding teams have been busy shipping their competition gliders and equipment to Australia for the world championships. Competitors from Switzerland, Croatia, Italy, Denmark, Ukraine, Japan, Finland,
Great Britain, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, the United States, Hungary, the Czech Republic, South Africa, Belgium, New Zealand, The Netherlands, France and Germany will join Australia at the event in Narromine which runs from December 2-16. Informal practice for the championships starts on November 26, with formal practice starting two days later. As some shipping containers are still yet to arrive in Narromine, questions arose as to whether some international competitors could be caught up in the ports’ closure and their gliders and equipment not make it to Narromine in time. Beryl Hartley from the Narromine Gliding Club, part of the organising team and responsible for local resourcing at the world gliding
championships, told the Narromine Star that a potential crisis has been averted. “All [shipping containers] but one have been located at this time,” she said. Mrs Hartley said several containers are yet to arrive in Narromine but organisers at least know where they are and are working to locate the other container. This will no doubt be welcome news to international competitors. DP World Australia detected the cyber-breach last Friday, November 10, and disconnected its internet system, The Guardian reported. This impacted the stevedore’s port operations across Australia and the company indicated operations would be impacted for several days as a result. Operations resumed at 9.00 am on Monday, November 13 following the testing of key
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systems, the company said in a statement. More than 5,000 containers were expected to move out of the four impacted terminals on that day alone.
Resuming logistical operations across the country is a huge undertaking and the company said further disruptions may occur.
“The ongoing investigation and response to protect networks and systems may cause some necessary temporary disruptions to services in the coming days,” the company said.
The investigation into the cyber-breach by DP World Australia and government agencies including the National Cyber Security Coordinator and Australian Cyber Security Centre is continuing.