Insights & Opinion


White elephants: Money wasted on port infrastructure in Timor-Leste

White elephants: Money wasted on port infrastructure in Timor-Leste

I RECENTLY watched a program on ABC TV about a ‘ghost airport’ in Timor-Leste, which was built in...

White elephants: Money wasted on port infrastructure in Timor-Leste

I RECENTLY watched a program on ABC TV about a ‘ghost airport’ in Timor-Leste, which was built in 2017 for the proposed Greater Sunrise gas project (its development is still in dispute...
White elephants: Money wasted on port infrastructure in Timor-Leste

OPINION: Vessel spoofing - Indonesia’s maritime blind spots and Australian implications

10 Jul, 2026
IN ITS Maritime Domain Awareness report launch in Jakarta on 7 July 2026, the Indonesia Ocean Justice Initiative (IOJI) findings show that Indonesia’s maritime domain is increasingly...
OPINION: Vessel spoofing - Indonesia’s maritime blind spots and Australian implications

US court ruling sharpens focus on detention fee fairness

COULD this significant decision out of the United States strengthen scrutiny of detention charging practices across the shipping industry? A U.S. federal appeals court has upheld a ruling...
US court ruling sharpens focus on detention fee fairness

OPINION: Key lessons for oil supply chains from the Strait of Hormuz shipping closure

8 Jul, 2026
FOLLOWING the memorandum signed between the USA and Iran to end the war, the Strait of Hormuz is expected to reopen for commercial vessels with the hope that the global oil supply soon will...
OPINION: Key lessons for oil supply chains from the Strait of Hormuz shipping closure

Maersk restores Suez transit

THERE'S another container service is returning to the Suez Canal. Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd have announced that their AE15 service, operated under the Gemini Cooperation, will transition from...
Maersk restores Suez transit

Navigating 2026: The middle chooses a side

THE LOADSTAR’S newly published State of AI in Supply Chain survey, run across more than 200 executives worldwide, puts a number on where competitive advantage is heading: 65.8% expect data...
Navigating 2026: The middle chooses a side

TRADE LAW: DFAT unveils report of the Trade 2040 Taskforce

ON 29 June 2026, DFAT convened an event at Parliament House to announce the release of the report by its 2040 Trade Taskforce entitled Towards 2040: Navigating Australia’s Trading Future....
TRADE LAW: DFAT unveils report of the Trade 2040 Taskforce

OPINION: The month that reminded me why seafarer welfare matters

26 Jun, 2026
JUNE has been one of those months that reinforces why our industry can never afford to take seafarer welfare for granted. At first glance, it has been a month of meetings, conferences and...
OPINION: The month that reminded me why seafarer welfare matters

TRADE LAW: US tariffs continue to create uncertainty for Australian trade

25 Jun, 2026
ONCE upon a time, there was hope that the world was working towards a rule‑based, multilateral trading system in which customs tariffs on imported goods were being reduced as part of trade...
TRADE LAW: US tariffs continue to create uncertainty for Australian trade