Drug bust at Sydney freight depot, logistics employee arrested
AUTHORITIES have seized about 60 kilograms of cocaine from a Sydney freight depot and have arrested a logistics worker for allegedly monitoring drug imports. The man was one of...
Inmarsat to launch maritime safety terminal
INMARSAT has unveiled plans for a next-generation maritime safety terminal. The satellite communications company intends to connect the new terminal to Inmarsat’s ELERA L-band...
Tassie government to launch Bass Island Line inquiry
THE TASMANIAN government is commissioning an inquiry into Bass Island Line’s pricing policies. Tasmanian treasurer Michael Ferguson said the shipping line’s freight volumes have...
Patrick Terminals launches landside efficiency initiatives
PATRICK Terminals has announced plans to publish quarterly landside performance metrics and launch representative landside efficiency groups. The terminal operator is launching...
Increases in trade at Botany and Kembla
CONTAINER trade at Port Botany last month saw an increase, with upticks in both export and import volumes. In October 2022, the port handled a total of 252,425 TEU – an increase...
ARTC re-opens freight line after derailment
A FREIGHT corridor closed by a recent train derailment re-opened on Monday night (21 November). The Australian Rail Track Corporation closed the Melbourne-Adelaide rail line last...
Importers and exporters lose when infrastructure is treated as a cash machine: Sims
ROD Sims, the former ACCC chair and now a professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy at ANU, said importers and exporters lose out when governments treat infrastructure as...
Maersk Line and Hope Hicks settle sexual assault case
MAERSK Line and former midshipman Hope Hicks have resolved Ms Hick’s litigation case against the company for sexual assault and harassment on one of its ships. Ms Hicks brought a...
Shipping line to bolster Australia-Pacific Islands service
SWIRE Shipping is bolstering its services between Australia and the Pacific Islands. The company is to phase the Melanesian Chief into the service from mid-December. The vessel is...
Port of Newcastle cranes load first containership
PORT of Newcastle has, for the first time, used its two new mobile harbour cranes to load a containership. Port of Newcastle bought the Liebherr LH 550 mobile harbour cranes in...
The DCN Weekly: Episode 24
On Friday this week, the Fair Work Commission issued an order suspending Svitzer's lockout of its maritime employees, along with all industrial action by the company and unions...
World Container Index continues to plummet
DREWRY’S composite World Container Index decreased by 7% this to US$2591.41 per 40-foot container. This was the 38th consecutive weekly decrease. The index has dropped by 72% when...
Zim posts record results for first nine months of 2022
ZIM has posted a record net income for the first nine months of 2022, but TEU volumes decreased in the same period. The company reported a net income of US$4.2 billion for the...
Re-opening set for freight corridor as containers cleared from derailment site
A RAIL corridor closed by a derailed freight train is expected to re-open next week The Melbourne-Adelaide rail corridor has been closed since Monday (14 November), when a...
AMSA co-ordinates medevac off South Australia
THE AUSTRALIAN Maritime Safety Authority has co-ordinated a medical evacuation from a ship off South Australia. Containership Sydney Express was near Kangaroo Island on Tuesday...
