Toll's business model is grouping freight to economic quantities, so its not unknown to skip a port/loading/unloading if the costs of going into the port exceed the revenue earned. With shipping they are pretty well free to do whatever they like with your freight, I would suspect that as the Australian Defence Force has reduced its presence and supplies going into Dili, the shipping frequency has declined as well. Buying goods from Australia is not a very likely scenario with the recently high valued AUS$ and is still unlikely in comparison with buying goods ex Singapore. Once the ADF has completely gone from E Timor, will there even be a reason the service ex Darwin to Dili?
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