About Thomas Bennett

For most people, freight forwarding to Papua New Guinea is invisible. A pallet leaves a warehouse in Brisbane and, a few days later, clears customs on the wharf in Port Moresby. Thomas Bennett spent the better part of twenty years working in the space between those two points.

Thomas started out on the ground floor, literally — loading pallets on the wharves and tarmac at Cairns and Brisbane’s freight terminals in his early twenties, on services running into Port Moresby. From there, he moved into freight forwarding, specializing in the Australia–PNG trade lane — coordinating customs clearance into POM, working around wet season disruptions, and helping businesses get equipment, retail stock, and project cargo into provinces well beyond Port Moresby’s wharves. He’s seen import permits knocked back over a single missing stamp, watched wharf congestion blow out delivery windows, and helped shippers keep goods moving when the usual route into PNG was jammed.

That hands-on background on the Australia–PNG lane is what shapes his writing at Drip.fm. Thomas isn’t interested in repeating industry jargon or recycling press releases. He writes about freight forwarding to PNG the way he’d explain it to a mate over a beer — what PNG Customs actually wants to see on your paperwork, why a shipment is stuck on the wharf in Port Moresby, what a quarantine hold really means for your timeline, and how conditions on the ground in Lae or Mount Hagen change what “on time” even means.

He’s based in Brisbane, keeps a close eye on PNG customs policy and capacity shifts on the AU–PNG lane, and still talks to forwarders, wharf operators, and customs brokers working the Port Moresby run to keep his understanding current — not theoretical.

When he’s not writing, Thomas can usually be found restoring an old Land Cruiser or arguing with anyone who’ll listen about why sea freight gets underrated for time-sensitive cargo into PNG more often than people think.

Readers across Australia — and increasingly PNG-based businesses, NGOs, and project teams — come to Thomas’s work on Drip.fm for one reason: it’s written by someone who’s actually stood on the wharf in Port Moresby, not just read about it.