• Desire to keep up with Joneses in coastal policy | 31 May 2007

  Does shipping have legs as an election issue, or was the argy-bargy on cabotage last week a flash in the...

• LNG crewing deal signed | 31 May 2007

  The Maritime Union of Australia has established a formal link with its US counterpart in an effort to reserve all...

• More smoke on the water? | 31 May 2007

  A funny thing happened on the way to the election last week: Australian shipping became an issue. For an...

• Delays blamed for loss of ship | 24 May 2007

  A former Tsavliris salvage specialist has joined the growing number of witnesses at the Erika trial to claim...

• Erika `could have been saved' | 24 May 2007

  A hidden weakness in her hull and not metal corrosion was at the origin of the structural collapse of the...

• Rhetoric and the commercial reality | 24 May 2007

  Late last year trucking magnate Lindsay Fox declared he – with his transport empire at his back – would fight...

• Why world trade is suffering a bad case of congestion | 24 May 2007

  There has been much talk of a possible political backlash against globalisation. Now an alternative scenario has been advanced. ...

• The Christmas with a ghost of the future | 17 May 2007

  The transport family huddled around the tree last week, nervous and excited as this Christmas, next Christmas, and the one...

• The big lift to shift the freight | 17 May 2007

  The cost efficiency and convenience of rail compared with other land transportation methods is rarely questioned. Governments have set ambitious...

• `Risky' dream to load bulkers off the coast | 17 May 2007

  Engineers have been known to sit with an 6B pencil in one hand in front of blank page, dreaming of...

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