No blockbuster 2024 for Hapag-Lloyd
HAPAG-Lloyd’s sturdy fourth quarter helped its 2024 results to slightly higher or roughly even levels, according to results released in Hamburg overnight. On the basis of...
Local liner trade update: Extra loaders
AHEAD of the usual Lunar New Year service blankings several carriers have added extra-loaders from China to Australia with overflow cargo. TS Lines is continuing a program that...
Lines maintain Red Sea bypass
THE ONLY container line service previously linking Australia with Europe via Suez looks unlikely to return to that routing any time soon. The MSC AES/CMA CGM NEMO service began...
Investor interest in failed FSG
PROVISIONAL insolvency administrators for Flensburger Schiffbau Gesellschaft, the collapsed German shipyard building Searoad Shipping’s new Bass Strait ro-ro, say they have...
iReX manager joins NZ treasury
MASSIMO SOPRANO, formerly the Ships Programme Director at Kiwi-Rail’s government-cancelled iReX Cook Strait ferry replacement project, has returned to familiar territory with his...
Supply chain tweaks boost BHP
BHP’s Western Australian iron ore shipments reached new heights in July-December 2024, partially thanks to de-bottlenecking improvements at Port Hedland. In its half-yearly...
Landside charges rising, more to come
BRISBANE-based economic consultancy NineSquared has measured substantial growth in landside port charges in the course of 2024 and foresees more of the same without the policy or...
UK group to maintain Gippsland Basin
BRITISH engineering consultancy John Wood Group has been awarded a significant new contract to provide long-term maintenance for Esso Australia’s onshore and offshore assets in...
Höegh's 4th Aurora, new contracts
HÖEGH AUTOLINERS has secured two long-term contracts with two major international car producers, just days after the fourth of its innovative Aurora-class PCTCs set sail on its...
First Manawanui fuel recovered
THE NEW ZEALAND Defence Force’s Operation Resolution has completed the first cycle to remove fuel and other pollutants from the sunken HMNZS Manawanui off Samoa, with recovered...
Blow for Port Hedland
UPDATE: Pilbara Ports will also now have all berths cleared from the Ports of Dampier, Ashburton, Varanus Island and Cape Preston by 1:00am Sunday, 19 January 2025. PILBARA PORTS...
PMG wins PNG port project
TOWNSVILLE-based Pacific Marine Group has secured a multi-million dollar project to upgrade Papua New Guinea’s third-largest port, Kimbe. PNG Ports Corporation Limited (PNG Ports)...
Unions ramp up Gladstone tug disruption
WITH little evident impact from current protected industrial action, and no Fair Work Commission hearing scheduled until 31 January, the AMOU and AIMPE will escalate disruption of...
South Aust celebrates new Asia link
THE NEWBUILDING 1800 TEU MSC Sijing sailed out of Port Adelaide’s Outer Harbour this morning after making the first call on MSC’s extended Koala Service, thus restoring South...
Reef Keeper row keeps on keeping on
THE MUA will begin another campaign of industrial action against Smit Lamnalco, with 10 days of stoppages effectively crippling the SL-operated Great Barrier Reef ETV Reef Keeper...
