Contract awarded for WA oil field decommissioning works
WOODSIDE Energy has awarded McDermott with a contract for offshore decommissioning work off Western Australia. McDermott, an engineering company headquartered in Texas, is to...
NZ port receives shore-power funding
CENTREPORT has received $500,000 in funding to install shore power at a ferry wharf in Wellington. The funding is from New Zealand’s Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority....
Zim slashes full-year 2023 outlook
CONTAINER liner company Zim has adjusted its full-year outlook for 2023; the company is expecting an EBIT loss of $500 million to $100 million, down from its previous guidance of...
Japan’s first LNG bunker barge launched
KEYS Bunkering West Japan recently named and launched a new LNG bunkering vessel. Keys Bunkering is a joint venture between Kyushu Electric Power, NYK Line, Itochu Enex and Saibu...
AMSA releases State of the Fleet report
THE AUSTRALIAN Maritime Safety Bureau, over 2022, inspected 2671 domestic commercial vessels, 2405 foreign-flagged vessels and 95 regulated Australian vessels, according to its...
Sea-freight ketamine haul seized in Victoria
THREE people have been charged in relation to a shipment of ketamine imported into Australia hidden in sea cargo sent from Spain. Eighty kilograms of the drug was found inside...
Port of Newcastle unveils 30 clean energy partnerships
THIRTY organisations have agreed to support the Port of Newcastle’s development of a clean energy precinct, the port has announced. Some of the partnership agreements were signed...
Piracy risk rises in Gulf of Guinea and Singapore Straits
THE ICC International Maritime Bureau has warned of a resurgence of piracy and armed robbery in the Gulf of Guinea and the Singapore Straits. In its latest mid-year report, IMB...
MPA invites proposals for electric harbour craft in Singapore
THE MARITIME and Port Authority of Singapore has called for proposals to design full-electric harbour craft for the port of Singapore. MPA has initiated an expression-of-interest...
QLD port fuel import facility upgraded
FUEL supplier IOR, with support from the Queensland government, has completed $60-million upgrade of the Lytton Fuel Terminal at the Port of Brisbane. Works on the...
Offshore wind zone declared for Hunter coast
THE FEDERAL government has officially declared an offshore wind zone off the Hunter coast. The declared area stretches over 1800 square kilometres of Pacific Ocean between Swansea...
Government backs Gladstone hydrogen alumina plant
RIO Tinto and Sumitomo Corporation are to build a new hydrogen plant at Gladstone as part of a program aimed at lowering carbon emissions from the process of refining alumina. The...
Maersk takes delivery of first methanol containership
MAERSK has taken delivery of its first containership that can run on green methanol. HMD Hull #4168 was built by Hyundai Mipo Dockyard Co. and Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. in...
Hydrogen export from WA takes step towards reality
THE WESTERN Australian government has welcomed the memorandum of understanding signed between Western Green Energy Hub and Korea Electric Power Corporation. The agreement is to...
Smart containers to make up 30% of global box fleet by 2027: report
THE NUMBER of telematics-enabled shipping containers in the global fleet is forecast to grow sixfold over the next five years, according to the Container Census & Leasing Annual...
