• Dragon still roaring as growth comes to boil | 29 November 2007

  China's maritime boom appears unstoppable, as soaring economic growth coupled with massive infrastructure investment in the country continue to propel...

• Rolling out transport links | 29 November 2007

  We have heard the promises, voted on the platforms and now await action from prime minister Kevin Rudd and his...

• Vic Dock centre to greatly boost port throughput | 29 November 2007

  Since announcing its involvement in one of the largest public-private sector partnerships in the port of Melbourne back in 2004,...

• Fogging up the facts | 22 November 2007

  Something went seriously wrong a few days ago on the bridge of the big containership Cosco Busan as...

• Paddock to major port in ten years | 22 November 2007

  Jebel Ali is the blueprint for a vast development on the north bank of the River Thames. That may seem...

• Financiers sound cautious optimism for shipping | 15 November 2007

  An elegant remark from Bote de Vries – “banking is an art again” – captured the mood of some of...

• Things were rather different in the 1970s | 15 November 2007

  The argosies laden with the manufactured goods of the Orient are still full and crossing the Pacific on schedule. ...

• Where is the sense of crisis? | 15 November 2007

  If climate change is really the worst crisis facing the world, why is it not being treated as such? ...

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