Brambles sells IFCO
PALLET, crate and container company Brambles announced today (25 February) that it would sell its IFCO reusable plastic containers business to Triton and Luxinva, a wholly owned...
Man sentenced in connection with major tobacco smuggling operation
A MAN has been sentenced to five years in prison for smuggling more than 6m cigarettes into Australia, concealed within sophisticated cover loads, according to an announcement...
Newcastle LNG developer announces strategic partnership
Energy Projects and Infrastructure Korea (EPIK) announced it had signed a strategic partnership agreement with Hyundai LNG Shipping. An announcement from EPIK said the agreement...
Transfer of council-owned roads to NSW a boon for freight: ALC
THE Australian Logistics Council said the announcement that the NSW government intended to transfer up to 15,000 kilometres of council-owned roads back to the state would increase...
Rough weather diverts cruise ship to Townsville
TOWNSVILLE is to host luxury cruise ship Albatros on Saturday amid a last-minute itinerary change due to the rough weather battering south east Queensland. The 205-metre vessel...
ATSB releases report on serious incident in Queensland
THE AUSTRALIAN Transport Safety Bureau is urging crew to adhere to safety procedures in its recently released report on a serious incident that occurred in January 2017. Two crew...
Port Nelson CEO announces his departure
NEW Zealand’s Port Nelson announced its CEO, Martin Byrne, would stand down from his position later this year. Mr Byrne took up the port’s CEO mantle back in 2004 and led the...
NSW Ports-commissioned report finds Botany, Kembla best bets for containers in the state
AN NSW Ports-commissioned report by KPMG concluded that a new container terminal in NSW would not be needed until the mid-2040s, and the best candidate for that terminal would be...
Maersk to buy US customs brokerage company
MAERSK announced it had come to an agreement to acquire US-based customs brokerage and logistics business Vandergrift. Maersk North America regional managing director Narin Phol...
Cairns construction and dredging tender announced
THE Cairns Shipping Development Project is entering the next phase with the announcement of the tender for major dredging and construction works. RN Dredging, the Australian...
Adelaide sees a busy January for containers
JANUARY was busy for Port of Adelaide, with big increases in container throughput, according to the latest trade statistics available from Flinders Ports. Port of Adelaide’s...
THE GRILL: Gordon Clark
Tell us a bit about your current role with Liebherr. My role in Australia is that I’m the general manager of the maritime division here. We set up in June of 2017. We started with...
New pilot vessel for Gladstone
GLADSTONE Ports Corporation’s new pilot vessel, Goonanga, was recently honoured with a centuries-old blessing. Goonanga, meaning black duck in the language of the Byellee peoples,...
Hapag-Lloyd to refit ship to burn LNG
HAPAG-Lloyd announced it would retrofit the 15,000-TEU vessel Sajir to use LNG propulsion, paving the way for converting other large ships to run on LNG, which can reduce carbon...
Salvage teams and specialist firefighters mobilised as container ship burns
A FIRE in the hold of APL Vancouver erupted in the early hours of 31 January while it was on passage from Shekou to Singapore. On Tuesday, the vessel’s operator, APL, released a...
