Insights & Opinion


OPINION: The landside cost shift - a practical view from the supply chain

OPINION: The landside cost shift - a practical view from the supply chain

THE CURRENT debate around port productivity and container terminal performance is important. But...

OPINION: The landside cost shift - a practical view from the supply chain

20 Feb, 2026
THE CURRENT debate around port productivity and container terminal performance is important. But productivity is only one part of the equation. For cargo owners, particularly small and...
OPINION: The landside cost shift - a practical view from the supply chain

OPINION: Why PI premiums don’t match risk

19 Feb, 2026
FOR decades, professional indemnity (PI) insurance for customs brokers has been priced on a simple and largely unquestioned metric: revenue generated from professional services,...
OPINION: Why PI premiums don’t match risk

OPINION: Safety helmets: When standards fail stevedores and crews

ON 2nd May 2019, a twistlock fitted to one of the bottom corner fittings of a container fell out of the fitting while the container was being restowed aboard the container vessel MOL Bravo,...
OPINION: Safety helmets: When standards fail stevedores and crews

OPINION: Changing tides and navigating 2026

12 Feb, 2026
AS AUSTRALIA and New Zealand resume normal trading cadence following the southern summer, global trade divergence has become more pronounced, increasingly sidelining the United States....
OPINION: Changing tides and navigating 2026

OPINION: Beyond GPS - what happens when navigation meets the real world?

11 Feb, 2026
THERE'S a reason behind Australia’s biennial conference devoted to positioning, navigation and timing (PNT). Modern navigation has become more than simply knowing where you are, and I think...
OPINION: Beyond GPS - what happens when navigation meets the real world?

OPINION: Australian ports don't deserve relegation

I RECENTLY received Shipping Australia’s (SAL) latest newsletter Signal which has no less than nine articles critical of Australia’s port performance, with the final article calling for a...
OPINION: Australian ports don't deserve relegation

EMERGING TECHNOLOGY: Wake of transformation

2 Feb, 2026
Exploring how Oceania's maritime industry is harnessing advanced technology across its waterways and ports IN MY first ‘Emerging Technology’ article that was published earlier this year, I...
EMERGING TECHNOLOGY: Wake of transformation

OCEAN OUTLOOK: Lighting a pathway forward

1 Feb, 2026
Heritage lighthouses still help us navigate the future for shipping and ports AS WE navigate the complex future of maritime globally, can we expect traditional lighthouses to be much use...
OCEAN OUTLOOK: Lighting a pathway forward

OPINION: BBNJ and sharing the benefits from marine resources

THE BIODIVERSITY Beyond National Jurisdiction Agreement (BBNJ) that came into effect this month is a result of multilateralism. Twenty years of discussions have ultimately led to a final...
OPINION: BBNJ and sharing the benefits from marine resources