IN THIS week’s special edition of The DCN Weekly, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority’s national operations manager Greg Witherall spoke with DCN about pilot ladder safety.

And in the news, every morning this past week, protesters wreaked havoc at the ports of Brisbane, Newcastle and Melbourne.

Also, Svitzer announced it had signed an agreement for the delivery of five new tugboats to service BHP’s Port Hedland operations.

And finally, the assault ship USS America docked at the Patrick Terminal in Brisbane.

The DCN Weekly is a podcast from Daily Cargo News providing a regular roundup of the biggest stories in Australian shipping and maritime logistics.

New episodes are published to our website at the end of each week and included in each Monday’s newswire.

Thanks for listening.