• Cranes show the strain | 24 July 2008

  Crane stability is exactly the kind of “specialist interest only” topic that would rarely excite the interest of shipowners, or...

• Industry at risk | 24 July 2008

  The Federal Government's draft plans for a cap-and-trade emissions system, to be introduced in 2010, that aims to curb greenhouse...

• Mysterious lease key to Botany improvements | 24 July 2008

  Somewhere in the dank, musty corridors of power a file, nay, a contract, exists. The details have never seen the...

• Tight control of costs is worth more than protest | 24 July 2008

  The Australian Trucking Association (ATA) does not support the industry shutdowns that some people are proposing for the two weeks...

• Industry split over new Torres pilotage model | 17 July 2008

  If there was any residual feeling at the Federal Department of Transport and the Australian Maritime Authority that changing the...

• Pilotage enters choppy waters | 17 July 2008

  Will there be metaphorical blood in northern Queensland's pilotage waters after the latest AMSA/Department of Transport review? Given the...

• A crisis of information | 10 July 2008

  It seems that about the time that King Agamemnon had a thousand or so ships hide from view of Troy...

• Cut the hot air on global fears | 10 July 2008

  Some bleating official was on the radio the other day, complaining that the general public was failing to take the...

• Outcome of hold-cleaning case `warning to charterers' | 10 July 2008

  A London arbitration addressed hold-cleaning issues after a vessel had been twice rejected for residues of pre-charter cargoes despite a...

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