• Bid for a system where the law is consistent | 10 May 2007

  A fresh initiative from the industry and the International Maritime Organisation is needed to resolve conflicts between international law and...

• The human aspect of consolidation | 10 May 2007

  Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman Graeme Samuel issued a warning to the transport industry last year. It was...

• The human aspect of consolidation | 10 May 2007

  Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman Graeme Samuel issued a warning to the transport industry last year. It was...

• 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...

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