• Coal buyers don't mind a queue | 03 May 2007

  With around 70 coal vessels queued off Newcastle and average charter rates nudging US$40,000 a day, this is costing someone,...

• FreightLink eyes a new bulk trade | 03 May 2007

  Three years into the 50-year Adelaide-Darwin plan, FreightLink could well be bringing out the construction drawing board again as some...

• Letting go of the umbilical cord | 03 May 2007

  It has always been a strange anomaly that Australia, with its huge 12% share of world maritime trade by volume,...

• Perspective was lost in dock drama | 26 April 2007

  Were you to plough through the archives of the Daily Commercial News in our Sydney office, somewhere in the volumes...

• Time to take helicopter view across the system: ALC chief | 26 April 2007

  The transport community has welcomed widely commitments state and federal government ministers have made to transport pricing reform. In...

• Tug liable for costs a first in Australia | 26 April 2007

  A tug has been found negligent and ordered to pay damages following a marine incident, a first in an Australian...

• Goldenport wins city friends and influences peers | 19 April 2007

  Life could be lonely for Goldenport Holdings, the sole “pure” shipping company represented on the senior London Stock Exchange. ...

• Insurers wary of new catastrophes | 19 April 2007

  After an unusually benign year for natural catastrophes and man-made disasters, insurers are taking a pragmatic view on the chances...

• Too many cooks in bulk export kitchen | 19 April 2007

  It might have taken nine months, 160 ships and soured quarterly reports by some of ASX's best performers for it...

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