• Canada in hot pursuit of ambitious gateway plan | 07 February 2008

  As global maritime commerce steadily grows, major trading nations have been paying special attention to expanding existing gateways or establishing...

• Driving home the point | 07 February 2008

  There's something almost Churchillian about protests on the beaches of Port Phillip Bay. Sir Winston reminded of the need...

• Over-zealous Washington uses security as a barrier to the free flow of trade | 07 February 2008

  Canada's efforts to become a strategic gateway of choice in North America are being undermined by costly delays, due to...

• Smoking out the class cartels | 07 February 2008

  It has often been suggested by frustrated classification society people that “nobody understands what classification societies actually do”. After the...

• Europe terminals stretched to limit | 31 January 2008

  The first European port – Rotterdam – breached the watershed 10m teu throughput mark last year, and it is perhaps...

• Going Dutch on port expansion | 31 January 2008

  Port of Rotterdam Authority and Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten have concluded a financing agreement for E450m (US$658m), which will be used...

• The sweet breath of life | 31 January 2008

  It is not rocket science to ensure that you refrain from entering an enclosed space that you suspect may not...

• Fish freak out over dredging | 24 January 2008

  The water in Port Phillip Bay is so muddied that fish are being caught with multi-coloured blotches and lesions all...

• Having a better whale of a time | 24 January 2008

  The unlucky passenger who died when a high-speed ferry rammed into a sperm whale in the Canary islands was the...

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