China-Australia spot rates recover
FREIGHT rates on the China-Australia route reversed direction this week, after steadily falling since the last week of January. The Shanghai Containerised Freight Index for spot...
Massive economic value of three QLD ports
$31.7 BILLION – that’s the contribution of the ports of Mackay, Hay Point and Abbot Point to Queensland’s gross state product, according to a new study commissioned by North...
Study into Grassy future
THE TASMANIAN government has commissioned consultants to satisfy a 2024 election commitment to investigate the adequacy of infrastructure at King Island’s commercial port, Grassy....
US investigates maritime choke points
IN THE latest iteration of Trump/Republican ideology impacting on the shipping world the Federal Maritime Commission has launched an investigation into whether US shipping is...
Cruisers run away to join the Carnival
THE former P&O Cruises Australia ships Pacific Adventure and Pacific Encounter have begun their transition to Carnival Cruises Australia vessels at Melbourne’s Station Pier....
US’s China charges will hit SOPAC shippers
THE TRUMP administration’s proposal to charge up to US$1.5 million per port call for Chinese-built and/or owned vessels entering US ports will come at substantial cost to shippers...
Fruitful first for Zespri
NZ KIWIFRUIT marketer Zespri International has despatched the first shipments in what is expected to be a record export season supplying more than 50 markets worldwide. The first...
Chris Carbone appointed as TT Line CEO
THE BOARD of TT Line has appointed Chris Carbone as the ferry company’s new CEO. Mr Carbone comes to the Bass Strait ropax operator from the Toll Group, where he was president of...
Esso, Woodside step on the gas
JUST weeks after announcing a $200 million project to tap additional gas supplies in Bass Strait’s Gippsland Basin, Woodside Energy and ExxonMobil subsidiary Esso Australia have...
LNG power debuts in Aust container trades
ANL Container Line is celebrating another step in the journey to net carbon zero by 2050 with the arrival in Melbourne this morning [18 March] of the 8048 TEU newbuilding CMA CGM...
US crams imports ahead of tariff confusion
US IMPORTERS have been doing their best to anticipate the possible impact of Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again, on-again tariffs, pulling elevated levels of containers in through...
UK collision: containership aground, master charged
THE UK’s Marine Accident Investigation Branch of the Department of Transport is just one of several bodies now undertaking investigations into the Monday [UK time] collision...
NPDL consolidates in Fiji
NEPTUNE Pacific Direct Line has placed two Fijian agency and logistics businesses under the one umbrella, bringing together Transam and Williams & Gosling PTE Limited. Effective...
NZDF wreck set to become dive site
THE GOVERNMENT of Samoa has told its New Zealand counterpart it now sees no need to salvage the sunken HMNZS Manawanui. The vessel sank on the morning of 6 October 2024, after...
Peters brings more on board
New Zealand deputy prime minister and rail minister Winston Peters has added two more directors to the new company tasked with managing the Cook Strait ferry replacement program....
