Industry lends a hand with the restoration of tall ship Alma Doepel
THE HISTORIC wooden 1903 Topsail Schooner, Alma Doepel, took thousands of young people to sea during the 1980s and ‘90s and for many of them changed their lives, always for the...
OPINION: The shady world of international shipping exposed
AN ENVIRONMENTAL disaster has been unfolding on the idyllic Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, caused by apparent negligence on board the MV Wakashio. The empty bulk carrier ran...
OPINION: Does big ship size really matter?
WHAT does a 10,600-TEU container ship look like? The recent visit of m/v CMA CGM Ural was received with much fanfare by port bosses as the largest container ship ever to call at...
OPINION: Are cruise liners the modern ‘ships from hell’?
THE CRUISE ship Ruby Princess is currently docked at Port Kembla where she is expected to remain for at least another week while the subject of a police investigation. This ship...
ICHCA Australia announces board changes
DAVID Bendall recently resigned from the ICHCA Australia board. He is a long-serving board member of both IAL and ICHCA International and was chairman of the board at IIL for...
OPINION: Larger box ships - a regular sight or once-off?
THE ARRIVAL of two 9400 TEU container ships, the MSC Elma and Maersk Skarstind, back in July heralded the arrival of a new class of container vessel to visit Australia. Both...
OPINION: Pacific potential
I RECENTLY had the privilege of being invited to participate in the Pacific Connect Dialogue on Freight and Logistics workshop held in Honiara, Solomon Islands. Pacific Connect,...
OPINION: Is Australian shipping on its last legs?
DR HERMIONE Parsons (director) and myself from the Centre for Supply Chain and Logistics (CSCL) at Deakin University recently appeared in front of the Senate Rural and Regional...
