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Celebrations for 20 years of automation at Patrick Brisbane terminal

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INDUSTRY figures gathered in Brisbane to celebrate 20 years of automation at Patrick’s Terminals Brisbane AutoStrad Terminal. After taking a bus to the Port of Brisbane, guests...
Celebrations for 20 years of automation at Patrick Brisbane terminal

Hefty drug haul seized from Port Botany shipping container

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AUTHORITIES have seized $9 million worth of cocaine hidden inside a refrigerated shipping container, after intercepting an attempted import at Port Botany, New South Wales....
Hefty drug haul seized from Port Botany shipping container

Auckland to get new-fuel bunker tanker

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A NEW bunker tanker to be built for Port of Auckland and subsidiary Seafuels will be capable of supplying biodiesel and methanol, as well as low sulphur fuel and marine diesel...
Auckland to get new-fuel bunker tanker

Patrick and Kalmar enter new deal, as stevedore celebrates 20 years of automation

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PATRICK Terminals has used the 20th anniversary celebration of automated straddle operations at Brisbane to announce the signing of a new 10-year strategic supply agreement with...
Patrick and Kalmar enter new deal, as stevedore celebrates 20 years of automation

TasPorts reports lower profit on higher revenue

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TASMANIA'S government-owned port operator TasPorts has reported a lower FY25 profit after tax from higher revenue compared to the previous year, reflecting a sharp increase in...
TasPorts reports lower profit on higher revenue

How Hamburg is devising a model for combining housing and harbour

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WHEN the 6000 future residents of Hamburg’s Grasbrook residential development look out of their apartments at the nearby port and the surrounding city, they will be doing so...
How Hamburg is devising a model for combining housing and harbour

Pilbara Port reaches renewable energy milestones

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THE PORT of Port Hedland has achieved renewable energy milestones, with the first lithium battery imports recently arriving through the Eastern Harbour. Image: Pilbara Ports /...
Pilbara Port reaches renewable energy milestones

Australia’s renewable bunkering potential highlighted

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ANGELA Gillham believes Australia has a good chance of becoming “a bunkering nation”, but only if it gets its renewable energy sources and green fuel production up to speed....
Australia’s renewable bunkering potential highlighted

NQBP announces Community Fund recipients

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NORTH Queensland Bulk Ports Corporation has announced 13 recipients of the 2025-2026 Community Fund. Organisations across NQBP’s port communities are to share $100,000 for this...
NQBP announces Community Fund recipients

Port of Newcastle protests impede ships

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PORT of Newcastle has become the focus of intense anti-coal actions in recent days, with protests and acts of civil disobedience. Activist group Rising Tide on Monday (1 December)...
Port of Newcastle protests impede ships

Townsville rocks on

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THE RE-ACTIVATION of the Ardmore Phosphate Mine in northwest Queensland has led to the shipment of more than 25,000 tonnes of phosphate rock from the port of Townsville to New...
Townsville rocks on

Albany port heritage project moves forward

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SOUTHERN Ports and H+H Architects are finalising designs to transform the heritage-listed Albany Pilot Station into a new community precinct. Designs for the $8.3 million overhaul...
Albany port heritage project moves forward

Leading container ports: Singapore top globally, Sydney ahead in Oceania

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SINGAPORE has been named the world’s leading container port in the first edition of the Leading Container Ports of the World (LCP) report. Shanghai and Ningbo-Zhoushan in China...
Leading container ports: Singapore top globally, Sydney ahead in Oceania

Mining boom to boost port prosperity

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A NEW mining boom in Queensland is on the horizon as three major projects in Central Queensland are set to deliver long-term business for ports and coal terminals. Two coal mines...
Mining boom to boost port prosperity

Wyndham Port resumes shipping as cyclone danger passes

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KIMBERLEY Ports Authority (KPA) has declared all its ports ‘safe’ as Tropical Cyclone Fina continued to downgrade. The system has since downgraded to category one as it continued...
Wyndham Port resumes shipping as cyclone danger passes