• Being green and staying in the black | 07 August 2008

  A recent email instructed me to boycott henceforth a particular brand of unleaded petrol in a bid to force the...

• Multitude of problems make for uneasy year | 07 August 2008

  Upheaval is never far from the surface in the topsy-turvy world of container shipping, but 2008 nevertheless could go down...

• Oil forces rethink on ship speed | 07 August 2008

  A study commissioned by Lloyd's Register in 2006 showed that historically there had been a close relationship between oil prices...

• Rail could help get freight on green track | 07 August 2008

  The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) proposed by the Australian Government in the Green Paper fails to acknowledge the significant...

• Demise of Australian shipping `no accident' | 31 July 2008

  The ongoing demise of the Australian shipping industry is proof positive of the proposition that there are no real accidents...

• High fliers | 31 July 2008

  Farnborough Air Show is to aviation what Posidonia is to shipping, except that shipowners tend not to parade their newbuilding...

• Liner trades now net wider data | 31 July 2008

  Concern about the absence of accurate trade data for the container shipping industry once conferences are abolished in Europe is...

• Now it's a green Danube | 31 July 2008

  Shippers, it seems, would like to go green, all things being equal. The trouble is that they rarely are,...

• 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...

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