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Pilbara Ports responds to FMG Nicola incident

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A STORY in national newspaper The Australian which outlined an emergency rescue of FMG Nicola at the port of Port Hedland after an engine breakdown has drawn a response from...
Pilbara Ports responds to FMG Nicola incident

Industry veteran steps down

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PIL Australia general manager and director Michael Horsburgh has retired after 32 years in the shipping industry. According to a LinkedIn post Mr Horsburgh started with Pacific...
Industry veteran steps down

USS America docks at Patricks Brisbane

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PATRICKS Brisbane terminal hosted a ship with a difference this week, an amphibious assault vessel of the United States Navy. The USS America berthed at the Port of Brisbane...
USS America docks at Patricks Brisbane

MUA: ‘Pilbara Ports crying poor’

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PILBARA Ports has been on the receiving of a social media swipe from the Maritime Union of Australia’s WA branch which claims the ports are crying poor. A Facebook post from the...
MUA: ‘Pilbara Ports crying poor’

Houthis sink another in Red Sea

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THE WORLD Shipping Council has joined the worldwide condemnation of the Yemeni Houthi rebels’ resumption of attacks on merchant shipping in the Red Sea. “What we’re seeing unfold...
Houthis sink another in Red Sea

New Darwin port container yard builds capacity

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A NEW container yard at Darwin Port’s East Arm, opened at the end of June, has seen daily truck slot availability jump by 33% and daily container delivery rates increase by 35%. A...
New Darwin port container yard builds capacity

Flinders container pact follows Qube and Patrick MUA deals

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THE MARITIME Union of Australia (MUA) has followed up deals with Qube Ports and Patrick Terminals with a new in-principal enterprise agreement with the Flinders Adelaide Container...
Flinders container pact follows Qube and Patrick MUA deals

Line rush to raise rates in July and August

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WITH Trans-Pac volumes and rates predictably falling as various Trump tariff deadlines come, go and are re-imposed carriers are likely returning attention to lesser trades,...
Line rush to raise rates in July and August

Triumvirate to build LNG opportunities

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WOODSIDE Energy has reinforced its support for Liquified Natural Gas, signing agreements with Hyundai Engineering and Hyundai Glovis to work on joint LNG projects. The three...
Triumvirate to build LNG opportunities

OPINION: BRM is a world-leading innovation born in Australia - let's not lose momentum

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ON JULY 10, 1995, I was a cadet aboard the Australian Maritime College’s training vessel, MV Wyuna, rounding Tasmania’s northwest coast, a stretch of ocean that, on that night,...
OPINION: BRM is a world-leading innovation born in Australia - let's not lose momentum

VBS technology set to go live in Bell Bay

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LOGISTICS technology provider Inbound Connect has announced its vehicle booking system technology is to be installed at Bell Bay, the first use of VBS in Tasmania. Adopting the...
VBS technology set to go live in Bell Bay

Clean Energy Precinct to deliver high skill jobs

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AT THE recent unveiling of the Clean Energy Precinct (CEP) masterplan, Port of Newcastle CEO Craig Carmody spoke to DCN about the project’s potential to drive future jobs and...
Clean Energy Precinct to deliver high skill jobs

Take sleep seriously, warns AMSA

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VESSEL owners and operators are being reminded that failure to maintain watchkeeping and crewing standards could result in enforcement action from the Australian Maritime Safety...
Take sleep seriously, warns AMSA

ACFS looks for shipping line collaboration after St Mary’s deal

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ACFS Port Logistics is looking for expansion opportunities after securing its future at St Mary’s intermodal in Sydney’s west. ACFS has signed a twenty-year lease with Cadence...
ACFS looks for shipping line collaboration after St Mary’s deal

MSC panders to Victorian reefer shippers

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MEDITERRANEAN Shipping Company is changing the East Coast rotation of its China-Australia Panda service to speed up export transits from Melbourne. In a customer advisory MSC said...
MSC panders to Victorian reefer shippers