• Blurring the lines between air and sea | 28 August 2008

  For years, the air cargo and shipping industries have been squaring up to each other, with the container shipping companies...

• High-speed pioneer | 28 August 2008

  Forty years ago, Robert Clifford was running tour boats around the pleasant harbour of Hobart. In October this year,...

• Sparks was insurers' man of steel | 28 August 2008

  Arthur Sparks, director of Sparks & Co and a marine consultant known throughout the world for his expertise in the...

• 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...

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