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- Court rules that Australians can ignore overseas arbitration
- Clauses in voyage charterparties purporting to set arbitration venues overseas instead of in Australia were rendered void by a decision of the Federal Court last Friday.
- Fall in live animal export volumes
- Live animal export volumes fell during the March quarter, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reports.
- Prohibited food discovered in shipping consignment
- Australian bio-security officers have seized more than 1.5 tonnes of prohibited food from a shipping container in Melbourne.
- Operators forced to agree loss-making index-linked charters
- Charterers impose their will on capesize vessel owners who are increasingly being ‘forced’ into consecutive voyage charters.
- Cruise safety body to publish independent emergency guidance
- The Skagerrak Foundation has raised concerns over repeating problems with the closing of watertight doors on cruise ships.
- Long Beach offers incentive program for cleaner calling ships
- An incentive program has been set up by the port of Long Beach in the US, to encourage larger, cleaner ships to call.
