NAVIGATING 2026: When the frame changes
FEBRUARY was shaping up as another well-known chapter in the cyclical downturn of the shipping market: a market struggling with overcapacity, weakening carrier finances, and...
OPINION: The digital supply chain cake
As I prepare to teach JNB701 Maritime Informatics, a course on digital transformation in supply chains, at the Australian Maritime College for the upcoming semester, I’ve been...
OPINION: The illusion of oversupply
FOR most of this year, container shipping was bracing for the opposite problem.. too much capacity. New ships hitting the water, pressure on rates, and a long-awaited return to...
INSIGHT: Metrics alone do not satisfy ASRS
MANDATORY climate reporting is about to change reporting for thousands of Australian businesses. Roughly 7000 companies will be captured, and the ripple effects will reach...
OPINION: Gulf cargo crisis - what does it mean for Australia?
DETAINED. Delayed. Detoured. Denied. The Gulf crisis is not a spectator sport, and Australian cargo owners who treat it like one will be last in line when the dust settles....
INSIGHT: Nominee customs brokers, ABN-to-ABN engagements and the insurance gap
ONE of the most persistent misconceptions in the customs brokerage sector is that regulatory silence equals commercial safety. Nowhere is this more evident than in the growing use...
INSIGHT: The carbon reporting wave coming for logistics
THE LOGISTICS sector continues to have a relatively distant relationship with carbon reporting. Emissions disclosure continues to be the domain of sustainability teams, annual...
OPINION: Middle East tensions exposes fragility of global trade
THERE are moments in this industry that sit heavy. Not because rates move or schedules slip, we live with that every day, but because the systems that quietly keep the world...
OPINION: Seafarer welfare funding and building a nationally consistent approach
IT WAS a great honour to be included in All About Shipping's Top 100 Women in Global Shipping, where I was ranked 45 among those whose work spans every part of the maritime value...
ANALYSIS: MV Raider and hard drugs on the high seas
THE right of state authorities to board ships on the high seas has been in the spotlight of late with the recent case of the MV Raider (IMO 9032824). In a joint French-US...
OPINION: Government needs to step up on seafarer welfare
ON THE 20th anniversary of the Maritime Labour Convention, Human Rights at Sea calls on the minister for transport Catherine King to act on the consistent provision of seafarer...
OPINION: The landside cost shift - a practical view from the supply chain
THE CURRENT debate around port productivity and container terminal performance is important. But productivity is only one part of the equation. For cargo owners, particularly...
OPINION: Why PI premiums don’t match risk
FOR decades, professional indemnity (PI) insurance for customs brokers has been priced on a simple and largely unquestioned metric: revenue generated from professional services,...
OPINION: Safety helmets: When standards fail stevedores and crews
ON 2nd May 2019, a twistlock fitted to one of the bottom corner fittings of a container fell out of the fitting while the container was being restowed aboard the container vessel...
NAVIGATING 2026: Changing tides
AS AUSTRALIA and New Zealand resume normal trading cadence following the southern summer, global trade divergence has become more pronounced, increasingly sidelining the United...
