• Chief returns to home port | 20 December 2007

  When Sydney Ports Corporation's board embarked on a search for a new chief executive in August, the thinking was global...

• Daily challenge of feeding world's hungry | 20 December 2007

  Between rising food and freight prices and having to operate in difficult, if not dangerous, areas around the world, the...

• Port Sudan central to African aid projects | 20 December 2007

  The humanitarian crisis in Darfur has turned Sudan's only deepsea port into the World Food Program's (WFP) busiest port operation....

• How events unfolded | 13 December 2007

  June 7 All ships off Newcastle given warnings of impending storm. June 8 0200 hrs —...

• How kind | 13 December 2007

  There is a lot to be said in a single headline. “The master of the Pasha Bulker will...

• Master's delays saw Pasha Bulker on the beach | 13 December 2007

  For 17 days she had been anchored two and a half miles off the Newcastle coast, closer to land than...

• Masters caught in under-ballast trap | 13 December 2007

  There are few up-sides to congestion for shipowners, charterers and masters. But peak demand for the Hunter's coal and a...

• Office tower view of rescue | 13 December 2007

  You're on the beach, a surf lifesaver trained to help people in difficulties, and it's wild and windy. Most...

• PWCS off the hook over ballast pressure | 13 December 2007

  New South Wales Maritime has cleared Port Waratah Coal Services (PWCS) of directly telling queuing bulk carriers to be at...

• Bigger seems better for ore boats to China | 06 December 2007

  Jinhui Shipping & Transportation, the dry bulk shipping specialist, is in talks with mining companies and Chinese steel mills...

• Nothing a round of golf won't fix | 06 December 2007

  There's a bit of simmering going on in the Hunter coal chain at the moment. Some of the parties concerned...

• Oil to ore move runs hot | 06 December 2007

  Tanker markets are about to enter a period of good profitability as a result of vessels leaving the spot market...

• Port leadership worthy of fame | 06 December 2007

  For the last seven years, I have pursued among my various interests, a new career in which my “stock in...

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