Incat Tasmania joins award recipients
INCAT Tasmania has joined Flinders Ports Holdings to be recognised as one of Australia’s Best Managed Companies for 2023 as part of Deloitte Private’s Best Managed Companies...
Extra services for King Island
BASS Island Line’s small ro-ro/landing craft John Duigan undertook an off-schedule sailing from Devonport to Grassy over the weekend to begin a Tasmanian Government-funded program...
AMC fills in the gaps
A WHARF upgrade at the Australian Marie Complex at Henderson in WA has added capacity to handle naval and commercial vessel work. The completion of the $8.2 million Deck Infill...
New entrant set for China trade
A SURPRISE new player is poised to enter the China-Australia trade, just as it returns to stability after years of COVID chaos and waterfront disruption. According to overseas...
Flinders keepers in national business awards
FLINDERS Port Holdings has been named one of nine leading private Australian companies recognised for its outstanding business performance in Deloitte Australia’s 2023 Best...
OOCL joins the deep divers
HONG Kong’s Orient Overseas Container Line has become the latest carrier to reveal the quantum of the 2023 downturn in freight rates, revenues and profitability. Parent company...
Austal wins another from repeat customer
TAHITI-BASED Degage Group has returned to shipbuilder Austal for a new ro-pax for French Polynesia service, to be constructed at the WA company’s Vietnam yard in Vũng Tàu. To be...
Sayonara to NWS carriers
A SIGNIFICANT era in Australian shipping is coming to an end as the final four steam turbine LNG carriers of the North West Shelf Shipping Services Co deliver last cargoes from...
Kimberley becomes Engaged
ENGAGE Marine has won a contract to operate transhipment operations for Kimberley Metals Group at Wyndham in far northwest Australia. KMG is reactivating iron ore production,...
Hyperbaric chamber boosts Aust subsea sector
AUSTRALIA'S first hyperbaric chamber testing facility has opened at the Australian Marine Complex at Henderson, WA, jointly funded by industry and the state government. It is...
Smit Lamnalco back in Botany business
SMIT Lamnalco has returned to towage in Port Botany, undertaking the first work yesterday [19 March] in its own name since 2015. SL withdrew from the port that year, shortly after...
Wallenius Wilhelmsen has bumper-to-bumper 2023
GLOBAL PCTC and ro-ro operator Wallenius Wilhelmsen turned in record results in 2023, a year the company described as exceptional “financially, commercially, and operationally”....
Reefer trades resuming normal temperature
GLOBAL reefer trades should obtain a degree of normality in 2024, according to the annual review of the market by independent Dutch consultancy Dynamar. In its Reefer Analysis -...
Japanese CO2 could be headed our way
AN AGREEMENT signed in Houston, USA on Monday [18 March] could see carbon dioxide shipped from Japan to Australia for placement in greenhouse gas storage facilities. JX Nippon Oil...
Friends of the Earth claims rigged, Esso says
ESSO Australia has issued a detailed rebuttal of claims by Friends of the Earth that is threatening the marine environment by short-cutting the decommissioning of Bass Strait oil...
