ICHCA SA luncheon May 2023
ICHCA South Australia recently held a successful industry event in Adelaide, at the Coopers Alehouse Gepps Cross, which was attended by more than 40 guests from the freight and...
DP World reports global 5% emissions cut in 2022
DP World claims to have cut direct carbon emissions from its global operations by 5% last year. The 2022 ESG report from DP World, published on Thursday, also indicates the...
Man charged for massive heroin smuggling operation
POLICE charged a Sydney man for allegedly orchestrating a massive heroin importation. AFP Eastern Command investigators, assisted by the AFP’s Offshore Disruption Taskforce...
ICS calls for better direction toward net zero
THE INTERNATIONAL Chamber of Shipping has proposed amendments to the MARPOL convention to implement a global fuel standard. Amendments to annex VI are among several proposals the...
The DCN Weekly: Episode 49
IN THE news this week, Australian Border Force officers found 300 kilograms of methamphetamine in a steel hydraulic press sent from Mexico by sea....
BIMCO elects new president
SHIPPING association BIMCO has appointed Nikolaus Schües as its new president. Mr Schües is the owner and CEO of German shipping company Reederei F. Laeisz. He was elected during...
Baltic Exchange weekly report
THE BALTIC Dy Index fell further last week, winding up at 1172 on Friday. This follows on from two and a half weeks of steady decline, starting from a peak of 1640 on 10 May. The...
Shofu Maru named ship of the year
SHOFU Maru, the bulk carrier fitted with a Wind Challenger hard sail, has been named ship of the year in Japan. The Ship of the Year Awards, now in their 33rd year, aim to...
World Container Index drops
DREWRY’S composite World Container Index fell 2% to US$1685.32 per 40-foot container this week. The index has dropped by 78% when compared with the same week last year. The WCI is...
Containership loses steering, hits navigational beacon in Melbourne (UPDATED)
THE CONTAINERSHIP CMA CGM Puccini on Thursday (25 May) lost steering ability and hit a navigational beacon in the Yarra River as it was departing the Port of Melbourne, according...
Port of Brisbane supports research on whale migration in shipping lanes
PORT of Brisbane and Griffith University are studying interactions between migrating whales and vessels, including cargo ships, off the Queensland coast. The project extends an...
Zilch partners with 123Carbon
MELBOURNE-based Zilch Forwarding has partnered with Dutch company 123Carbon, a multi-modal carbon insetting platform. Zilch Forwarding was founded last year with the aim to...
300 kg of sea-cargo smuggled drugs discovered in Sydney
BORDER Force officers found 300 kilograms of methamphetamine concealed inside a steel hydraulic press that arrived in NSW by sea from Mexico on 18 April. ABF officers examined the...
Seaspan and Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller centre join forces
SEASPAN and Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping have agreed to collaborate on the development of zero carbon technologies for the maritime industry. The two...
IMO discusses decarbonisation at conference
THE DECARBONISATION of maritime transport in Asia and the Pacific and the opportunities it can unlock across the maritime value chain was at the heart of a Green Shipping...
