• Best to avoid terminal decline | 14 August 2008

  If private equity wins Asciano, it will be hard to see Patrick or Pacific National ever being owned by Australians...

• DOWN-SIZING | 14 August 2008

  Media and gambling mogul James Packer has waited two years for completion of his latest toy, the estimated $50m plus...

• Holistic approach to performance the only way | 14 August 2008

  Landside efficiency of container movements remains one of the most elusive and challenging to all parties in international trade logistics....

• Super-rich drive superyacht boom | 14 August 2008

  James Packer has just got his. Roman Abramovich has got one — well, four at the last count – and...

• 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,...

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