Urgent Devonport works will delay redevelopment
TASPORTS has warned that urgent work to temporarily equip TT Line’s East Devonport No.1 berth to accommodate the new Spirit of Tasmania ropaxes will delay later stages of the...
Zim gets slots from ANL on Tasman
ISRAELI CARRIER ZIM has found a way to maintain a trans-Tasman service and crucial links to its ZAX China-Australia product through a slot-charter deal with ANL Container Line....
MSC fills WA gap with Koala
MEDITERRANEAN Shipping Co will revive the Koala brand for a new weekly service between China and Western Australia, via Indonesia. Although there had been no official announcement...
Macquarie adds to offshore wind portfolio
MACQUARIE Asset Management has entered into an agreement to purchase 100% ownership of Danish offshore wind specialist ZITON, which claims to be the market leader in operations...
Fleet expansion for Spliethoff
MULTI-PURPOSE specialist Spliethoff has placed an order with China’s Wuhu Shipyard for a new series of eight vessels, with an option for two additional vessels, delivering from...
Dali lawsuits pile on
CONTAINERSHIP Dali’s owners Grace Ocean and managers Synergy Marine are the target of still more legal claims over the vessel’s March allision with and destruction of the Francis...
Big, bigger, biggest: WW upsizes Shapers
WALLENIUS WILHELMSEN has decided to increase the size of four of its highly-advanced Shaper class PCTCs currently on order with Jinling Shipyard (Jiangsu) to become the largest...
PCTC in Port Phillip near miss
SKILLFUL WORK by pilots averted a possibly serious incident in Port Phillip Bay on Wednesday afternoon [25 September] when the inbound PCTC Höegh St Petersburg suffered a steering...
ACCC consults on Olam's Namoi bid
SINGAPORE-based Olam has offered court-enforceable undertakings in its efforts to obtain ACCC clearance for its bid for Namoi Cotton, but the Commission remains concerned about...
Maersk reworks Oceania products
MAERSK LINE is to undertake a major re-organisation of its Oceania services, adding one, canning two and revising a fourth. The headline is the introduction of a revived Northern...
FMC puts lines on notice
WITH THE LIKELIHOOD of industrial disruption at US East Coast and Gulf of Mexico ports growing stronger the Federal Maritime Commission has warned container lines there will be no...
TasPorts manager moves on
THE EXECUTIVE leading QuayLink, TasPorts’ redevelopment of Devonport berths including the TT Line terminal, has resigned. The departure of project manager Sam Wilson-Haffenden is...
US amplifies Chinese port crane concerns
THE UNITED STATES Committee for Homeland Security has renewed claims the world’s leading ship-to-shore gantry crane manufacturer, Shanghai Zhenhua Port Machinery Company, has...
Are new spirits sailing for Singapore sojourn?
LEAKS FROM a ‘government business enterprise’, raised in Tasmania’s Parliament yesterday, suggest TT Line’s new Spirit of Tasmania ferries may be sent to lay by in Singapore...
Kiwis rail against possible exclusion
THE NEW ZEALAND Government has admitted it may not make a decision on Interisland Line replacement ferries until year’s end, as opposition grows to the likelihood they’ll have no...
