Rates: China falling, South East Asia easing upwards
“SUSPICIOUSLY quiet” is the way one forwarder has described the current freight rate situation from Asia to Australia. “Ships are assuredly full, and there’s still a lot of...
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Systems bugs bug new Spirits
A REPORTED fault in the vessel’s navigation or steering systems delayed the arrival of Spirit of Tasmania IV in Geelong this morning [5 November] just as the Australian Transport...
Q2 a big ONE as profits soar
OCEAN Network Express (ONE) has had an outstanding second quarter of its 2026 financial year (April–March) with a huge profit rise boosting its first-half figures and leading to a...
Matilda 1 goes a waltzing with US Marine Corps
IN ANOTHER win for Australian designers/builders, the U.S. Marine Corps has chartered SeaTransport’s Matilda 1, a specialised Stern Landing Vessel (SLV), to test and develop new...
AMSA bans repeat offender
A BULK carrier already twice detained by AMSA over falsified crew records has now been banned from Australian waters for 90 days. The Marshall Islands-flagged Wooyang Venus,...
PPSP's Werges ships out
PORT Phillip Sea Pilots’ (PPSP) first chief executive, Thorsten Werges, will leave the company this weekend after the board decided not to renew his contract. In correspondence...
Neptune Pacific has skin in the game for Tuvalu
A SKINCARE product developed on the output-constrained nation of Tuvalu has become the first commercial export since 2002 two decades, with a helping hand from Neptune Pacific....
Stevedores embrace voluntary guidelines
AUSTRALIA’s stevedores appear to be heeding the implicit warning in the National Transport Commission’s voluntary guidelines for landside charges, given today’s [2 November]...
New ferries now in service but already written down
NEW Bass Strait ro-paxes Spirit of Tasmania IV and V undertook their maiden commercial passenger services from Devonport and Geelong on Saturday night [31 October] with only minor...
Svitzer saves: Company claims TRAnsverse tugs transcend
TOWAGE giant Svitzer is touting the TRAnsverse tug design, co-developed with Canada’s Robert Allen, as a time-saver for port and terminal operators thanks to its power and...
Hazards overlooked in boiler blowback
AN ENGINE room failure last May that saw three engineers injured, two with serious burns, in the New Zealand port of Bluff highlights the need to recognise when changed conditions...
Patrick upgrades landside interfaces
PATRICK Terminals is launching two initiatives to improve interface functions for container management and road transport, via OneStop’s OptiBook at Port Botany and the company’s...
Tauranga’s Q1 slips but full-year confidence remains
PORT of Tauranga has recorded a 4.8% drop in total throughput in the three months to 30 September, mainly due to a drop in log exports as the forestry industry is impacted by high...
Wallenius Wilhelmsen shapes up for more
FOLLOWING its successful USD 300 million private capital raising earlier this month, Wallenius Wilhelmsen has confirmed orders for four more of its 9,900 CEU Shaper class PCTCs...
Status change for PAD/NASP service
THE FORMAL structure of the PAD/NASP service, formerly operated by CMA CGM and Marfret as a vessel sharing agreement, has changed in a move Marfret says responds to difficult...
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