Keel laid for new Daintree River Ferry as construction progresses
A SIGNIFICANT milestone has been reached in the delivery of the new Daintree River ferry, with a keel laying ceremony held recently at Birdon’s Macquarie shipyard in New South...
TasPorts smoothing Burnie beds
APPROXIMATELY 3,500 cubic metres of sand and sediment build-up will be redistributed within the port of Burnie during a bed-levelling campaign TasPorts is running until 24 June....
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AAL: Fleet renewal a big boost to energy efficiency
AAL SHIPPING has seen its fleet-wide Energy Efficiency Operational Indicator (EEOI) improve by 19% since 2023 reflecting, it says, the benefits of modern vessel design,...
Blind spots and disruptions discussed at AMPI conference
BLIND spots, fatigue and managing disruptions were some of the key topics discussed on the second morning of the Australasian Marine Pilotage Institute (AMPI) conference in...
Sea Swift accepts ACCC ruling
NORTHERN Australia specialist Sea Swift has given the ACCC a court-enforceable undertaking after the Commission found elements of shipper contracts were anti-competitive. The ACCC...
Leeward consolidates agencies
QUEENSLAND-headquartered Leeward Group is retiring its Nautical Shipping agency network and transferring key principal Grimaldi Group to Quay Shipping. This follows Singapore’s...
ATSB: Brisbane ships at storm’s mercy
CHAOTIC scenes that erupted in the Port of Brisbane on 24 November last year followed a rapid intensification of severe weather conditions, the Australian Transport Safety...
ANALYSIS: BYD ‘invasion’ - fact or PR flood?
NEVER underestimate the power of a saturation marketing and PR campaign. Any media-alert reader could hardly have missed the efforts by Chinese car manufacturer BYD (‘Build Your...
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Webb Dock West marks BYD’s first port call
AAT’s Webb Dock West terminal has this morning become the first Australian port call for BYD’s new roll-on, roll-off (RORO) vessel, BYD Zhengzhou, loaded with almost 5000 vehicles...
Incat’s big catch
INCAT Tasmania has secured a heavylift/flo-flo vessel to ship its pioneering battery electric fast ferry China Zorrilla to client Buquebus in South America. Incat announced this...
No vessels scheduled for WA live sheep exports
WESTERN Australia’s live sheep export trade has slowed to a standstill, with no vessels currently scheduled to load from the Port of Fremantle despite the end of the northern...
Fuel quandary for RSV Nuyina at Hobart
A SENATE estimates session in Canberra has heard that plans by the Tasmanian government to refuel Australia’s Antarctic icebreaker RSV Nuyina by truck are “far from” acceptable....
India focus with AAL Mumbai
AAL Shipping (AAL) has marked what it says is another significant milestone in its newbuilding program with the official naming ceremony of its latest Super B‑Class vessel, AAL...
Dual-fuel container ship and vehicle carrier fleet passes 1200
THE World Shipping Council (WSC) has published its latest update to its WSC Dual-Fuel Fleet Dashboard, tracking the global liner shipping industry’s investment in vessels capable...
Plane sailing - precious cargo arrives at Port Kembla
JOHN Travolta doesn’t often feature in DCN, but his name was very much on the lips of those at Port Kembla on Wednesday, as the Wallenius Wilhelmsen ro-ro vessel Thermopylae...
