Rates plodding along
WITH Drewry’s World Container Index continuing to reverse last week, albeit at a slower rate, Asia-Australia carriers will be celebrating the contrary, gentle recovery of...
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Consent for Auckland wharf additions
PORT of Auckland (PoA) has jumped a hurdle in its plan to build one new berth and extend another, receiving provisional approval under a fast-track consent process. The major...
Wellington wins another customer
THE PORT of Wellington has secured another trans-Tasman caller, with COSCO Shipping and OOCL’s joint ANE/ANS service to add a weekly visit from 19 September. Commencing from v...
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Peak bodies launch cargo-focused conference
SHIPPER bodies on both sides of the Tasman are joining forces to launch a new annual conference to showcase supply chain co-operation. The Freight & Trade Alliance, the Australian...
Tauranga’s electrifying announcement
NEW ZEALAND’s largest container port is committing more than NZD 3.5 million to the acquisition of the nation’s first all-electric straddle carrier, with associated charging...
Fiji’s Goundar at odds with authorities, media
CONTROVERSIAL Fijian ferry operator George Goundar has ramped up his ongoing fight with the country’s maritime authorities and warned local media to “check their facts”. Mr...
Swire Shipping on a voyage to zero
FIJI’s MINISTER of the Environment and Climate Change on Friday [11 July] officially launched Swire Shipping’s new Voyage to Zero carbon insetting program aboard the vessel Apia...
Wellington gets PortConnected
CENTREPORT Wellington has joined five other New Zealand ports and terminals in signing up to use the PortConnect supply chain software. PortConnect is jointly owned by the Port of...
Air cargo boost for Pacific Islands
ENHANCING air cargo connections between the Pacific Islands is the aim of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed this week in Majuro, Micronesia. Signing the agreement were...
New Zealand ports agree on new ferry infrastructure
FERRY Holdings, the New Zealand Government-sponsored body charged with acquiring two new rail/ro-paxes for Cook Strait service with KiwiRail and terminal ports Wellington and...
ZIM quits New Zealand for the third time
ISRAELI carrier ZIM and its Hong Kong subsidiary Gold Star Line will withdraw from the Tasman for the third time in two decades and shut down their New Zealand operation. In a...
Treasury advised against NZ rail ferries
NEW Zealand deputy PM and rail minister Winston Peters over-ruled the nation’s Treasury to specify Interisland Line’s replacement Cook Strait ferries be rail-enabled. Following an...
OPINION: New Zealand’s seafarer welfare funding model a benchmark for Australia
THE HEALTH, wellbeing and recuperation of seafarers depends on 21st Century funding for port welfare facilities. In Australia, the current institutional paralysis-by-analysis and...
Chokyu Maru No.68 grounding “a failure of good seamanship”
THE GROUNDING of the Japanese longline fishing vessel Chokyu Maru No.68 when approaching Auckland on 16 April 2024 came about when the crew overlooked the basic of safe...
Maritime New Zealand charges KiwiRail over Aratere grounding
MARITIME New Zealand has filed two charges against KiwiRail after completing what it says is a comprehensive and wide-ranging investigation into the grounding of the Interislander...
