Melbourne under fire

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Patrick chief Chris Corrigan has taken the big stick to the Port of Melbourne Corporation (PoMC), warning that the port risked relegation to...

Patrick fines handed down

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Patrick Stevedores has been fined A$115,000 for five breaches of the Occupational Health and Safety Act 1983 in relation to the use of strad...

Delays force Brisbane to reschedule

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The Port of Brisbane Corporation (PBC) has been forced to reschedule the relocation of motor vehicle and general stevedoring operations from...

Oz terminals feel the squeeze from boom

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Australia’s Bureau of Transport and Regional Economics has produced its latest review of the nation’s waterfront performance. It is clea...

Esperance box hopes

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The Western Australian port of Esperance is set to leapfrog over other ambitious container-business pursuers such as Bunbury thanks, ironica...

Melbourne channel deepening sunk…

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To the consternation of shipping lines and shippers, shortcomings in a pivotal environmental effects study (EES) have forced the Victorian G...

Sydney looks beyond the gates

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The Sea Freight Council of New South Wales (SFCNSW) has embarked on a study of landside container infrastructure in the state in an effort t...

Fresh look at inland rail in Oz

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Interest in an inland East Coast Australia freight railway has re-emerged in a new climate of business and government attention to the natio...

Dirty row at Bunbury

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A major row has erupted in the Western Australian port of Bunbury over the port authority’s plans to load trial coal shipments using the s...

CTAS in demand

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Sattel of Australia, part of P&O Ports, has signed new contracts to install its Container Terminal Automation System (CTAS) products at seve...

….Adelaide green light

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Just days before the Victorian Government’s bombshell announcement, its South Australian counterpart gave the goahead for channel dredging...

P&O post-Panamax in Oz

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P&O Ports Australia inaugurated its five-year, 15-unit terminal reequipment programme when ZPMC’s heavy lift vessel ZHEN HUA 5 arrived at ...

NSW proffers PB3T option

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At the mid-February resumption of the high-stakes independent inquiry into the proposed third Port Botany container terminal (see WorldCargo...

WW mulls Sydney terminal

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Industry disquiet over the New South Wales government’s policy to close most general cargo and breakbulk facilities in Sydney Harbour is c...

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