• Europe's elite tighten grip as box line leaders 

    European carriers continue to dominate container shipping, with the world's big three tightening their grip at the top of the...

  • Reform must focus on future, not past 

    “Australia will only develop as far as the rail system, with its limitations, will allow” a truckie named Michael Vale...

  • Watching the weather 

    Why should a single hurricane transiting the Gulf of Mexico cause such an immediate and ridiculous response from those who...

  • 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...

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