• AQIS, Customs: Fast-track users with clear records | 02 October 2008

  Australia's customs and quarantine authorities have given their in-principle support to a move to apply less scrutiny to cargo brought...

• Disruption of global trade | 02 October 2008

  Vale's claim that it has “not even one tonne” of iron ore at its ports to export demands closer examination,...

• Ineffective quarantine cost $1bn | 02 October 2008

  The final cost of last year's equine influenza outbreak will likely smash the $1bn estimate made earlier this year, federal...

• Tanks bring attention | 02 October 2008

  The seizure by Somalia pirates of Faina , with a full load of military hardware aboard, could just be...

• Watchkeepers for 90% of global trade | 02 October 2008

  Thanks to internet and high-tech advances, the global village has now become a very small playground for many of us....

• `We are not the solution' to piracy, says Somalia coalition navy chief | 02 October 2008

  Coalition navies have privately been stung by shipping industry criticism of their work to prevent piracy in Somalia, according to...

• A waiting game | 

  The Dow Jones Index is essentially irrelevant to the shipping industry. That is what some of the more optimistic shipowners...

• Curtains for tight windows | 

  Brokers and forwarders have broadly welcomed many of the changes put forward by the New South Wales Government last week,...

• No news is good news | 

  News is news, and at present it is universally worrying, although significant, that positive people are already speaking of “necessary...

• Over to industry, or it's a big stick | 

  Only time and the willingness of the market will be factors in the New South Wales Government's decision to mandate...

• Tonnage tax must be on shipping policy agenda | 

  In modern political times, it has become unfashionable to talk about new taxes, but the shipping industry governments around the...

• UK tonnage rise sparks industry demands | 

  Deadweight tonnage under the UK flag rose 439% in the last decade to reach 13m dwt by the end of...

• A risk-based view of threat | 

  There have been some generally encouraging remarks of late by the US homeland security secretary Michael Chertoff. In a...

• Maritime safety regulation needs a national approach | 

  The general public expects governments to ensure the safety of people in workplaces, public spaces, and in many other aspects...

• Ransoms could rocket to US$50m | 

  Ransom costs paid to pirates off Somalia could spiral to US$50m this year, fuelling copycat attacks and a specialist underwriting...

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