• One day shots will ring out | 06 September 2007

  Just as the city of Sydney went into lockdown mode this week ahead of the regional summit, 200 km away...

• Size still matters for giants of the container trade | 06 September 2007

  Superficially at least, liner shipping appears to be going through a period of relative stability, with few significant changes in...

• Boom time for US yards | 30 August 2007

  After a “long period of dormancy”, US commercial shipbuilders are experiencing an upsurge based to a large extent on the...

• Car wars `in the dead of the night' | 30 August 2007

  There is no doubt that any regulatory body has a perfect right to institute an unannounced and sudden strike on...

• Troubled waters over vegetable oil classification | 30 August 2007

  The International Maritime Organisation, through its various committees, has amended and updated several rules and regulations that impact the design...

• Vegoil: ABS bears fruit for product tanker owners | 30 August 2007

  The Marpol Annex II revisions and International Bulk Chemical Code requirements which took effect on January 1, have caused some...

• California clean truck plan stalls | 23 August 2007

  A plan to rid southern California ports of “dirty” trucks is at a crucial stage. A vote among the...

• Pointless penalty | 23 August 2007

  It may be an unfashionable view, with the lives of sea creatures and birds valued more than those of seafarers,...

• Terminals ride crest of a wave | 23 August 2007

  Ports, like electricity, are a classical inconvenience – felt only when there is a short circuit. Otherwise, like electricity,...

• Triumph from Tasmanian tragedy | 23 August 2007

  How often, it seems, adversity brings forth a lot of real ingenuity that otherwise might have lain dormant. Interferry,...

• West coast box trade slowdown spells trouble | 23 August 2007

  It has often been said that if the US faced an economic collapse, the clues would first be seen in...

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