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...
Freo finds there's no place like dome
FREMANTLE Ports has inflated a 40-metre high cement clinker dome at its Kwinana Bulk Terminal in the Outer Harbour, as part of an initiative to streamline import procedures. The...
Revised EU Customs requirements looming
AUSTRALIAN companies exporting to the European Union face added data requirements from June, as part of the upcoming third release of the EU’s Import Control System 2 (ICS2). In a...
New NZ coastal service nears realisation
A WEST Coast South Island company is about to launch a new barge-based bulk distribution and transhipment operation, partly funded under the coastal shipping initiative of NZ’s...
Fortescue, partners complete ammonia trial
AUSTRALIA’S Fortescue late last week completed the world’s first use of hydrogen-based ammonia as marine fuel, in the port of Singapore. The demonstration vessel Fortescue Green...
Environmentalists want Bass Strait rig de-coms halted
ENVIRONMENTAL group Friends of the Earth claims Esso Australia plans to “dump eight toxic oil platforms” off Gippsland and wants state and federal government intervention. FoE...
