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- Australia’s domestic commercial vessel industry is eagerly awaiting maritime r...
- Lloyd’s of London has published research by think-tank Chatham House into the ...
- For very many years, operators of ships running in short sea trades around Europ...
- South Africa has some of the busiest ports on the continent but no commercial sh...
- The German parliament gave final approval to an extension of the European Union'...
- The sole aircraft carrier of the country INS Viraat on Friday completed 25 years...
- The Gladstone Observer says Australia's top scientific body has cast new doubt o...
- What is 418-feet long, costs millions to build and can move a crew of 110 men...
Australia’s domestic commercial vessel industry is eagerly awaiting maritime reforms to be introduced in January 2013 following the completion of nation-wide community consultation on the proposed National System for Commercial Vessel Safety.
The Marine Safety (Domestic Commercial...
The Gladstone Observer says Australia's top scientific body has cast new doubt over claims Gladstone Harbour is being severely damaged by dredging. The CSIRO released a report, which found levels of dissolved metals had not increased in areas where dredging is being done.
The...
MELBOURNE–Australian billionaire Clive Palmer has formed a shipping business to handle ore freight for his Queensland Nickel Group, with plans to commission four 64,000-metric-ton vessels from the Chinese shipyard already tasked with building a 21st-century version of the passenger...
AUSTRALIA is a major shipping nation with a large stake in the protection and preservation of the marine environment in adjacent oceans and seas. Because of our dependence on bulk carriers to export minerals and other bulk cargoes, we're particularly concerned about this class of...
The Company of Master Mariners of Australia has made a submission to The Inquiry into Coastal Trading Bill 2012.
To look at the Submission please click on to:
SUBMISSION_TO_THE_INQUIRY_INTO_THE_COASTAL_TRADING.pdf
Australia’s Transport Safety Bureau found that an injured third officer aboard the K-Line woodchip carrier Universal Gloria was so poorly trained that he was unaware of the difference between oxygen and air. The officer, on his first assignment as third, was badly burned when the air...
THE ore carrier, RIVER EMBLEY made her final voyage from Weipa to Gladstone recently after 29 years of service.
The SS RIVER EMBLEY, and her sistership RIVER BOYNE, were specifically designed for the bauxite trade between Weipa and Gladstone. Her keel was laid in 1982 in...
Minister for Defence Materiel Jason Clare announced the arrival in Adelaide of the first of three state of the art horizon-search radars for the Hobart Class Air Warfare Destroyers (AWD).
“The AN/SPQ-9B radar is located on the main mast of the destroyers and can track over 200...
Three phase – Three-year plan
In 2009, work commenced on identifying AMSA and Australia’s vessel tracking and reporting needs for the future while considering the International Maritime Organization (IMO) published mandates of ship reporting requirements and the need for reduced...
On April 21 the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) released its paper "Mind The Gap: Getting Serious About Submarines". As a result of this there has been some quite critical, and in some cases dated, analysis reported in the press.
There is no denying the issue that...
Royal Boskalis Westminster has received a Letter of Award from Saipem in relation to the Ichthys gas export pipeline development near Darwin, Northern Australia. The project is worth approximately Euros 200 million to Boskalis. INPEX is the main developer of the Ichthys project and...
An era of Australian shipping comes to an end, as the vessel Iron Monarch steams out of Port Kembla - this time for good. Since 1973 the ship has transported steel coils from BlueScope (previously BHP) operations at Port Kembla to the hot strip mill at Westernport...
Australian dockworkers rejoiced yesterday after reaching a deal with port operator Asciano that would give them a 22.5 percent pay rise, an increase in supper annuation from nine to 12 percent and backpay from November 2010.
The agreement ends a 20-month dispute that led to a wave...
The Australian Government has stepped in to remove the wreck of the MV Tycoon from the Port of Christmas Island.
The vessel broke free of its moorings and crashed into cliffs on 8 January 2012, and is now a wreck.
Removal of the wreck is normally the responsibility of the owner....
The Chief of Navy Vice Admiral Ray Griggs has announced the establishment of a new organisation, Fleet Support Unit – Australia, to provide better maintenance support to the Navy.
The re-organisation was one of the key recommendations to come out of a review conducted by the Navy’s...
HSC CONDOR RAPIDE is a fast ferry operated by Condor Ferries. Launched in 1997, she was initially chartered out as a civilian ferry, then became the first large catamaran to enter military service when she was commissioned into the Royal AustralianNavy as HMAS Jervis Bay (AKR 45)...
Australian taxpayers can expect to be billed 0 million to keep HMAS Success - the navy's ''ship of shame'' - at sea because Defence has neither maintained her properly or made provision for a replacement. Defence has confirmed a ''mid-life extension'', to keep the 26-year-old...
SHIPBUILDER Incat Tasmania has suffered a blow after the Defence Department canned a plan to buy a high-speed catamaran for the navy. It was revealed the department had recommended to Defence Minister Stephen Smith that the purchase not go ahead. The decision leaves Incat with an...
Cargotec has received a large order to supply 22 Kalmar straddle carriers to Australia's leading container handling operator Patrick container terminals, Cargonews Asia reports. Twelve of the straddle carriers will be delivered to Patrick's East Swanson Dock in Melbourne between July...
The New South Wales Government's plan to have more cruise ships share Sydney's Garden Island navy base has hit the rocks, with a Federal Government report advising against it. The base, HMAS Kuttabul, is occasionally used as a docking point for very large cruise liners that cannot...
TASMANIAN importers and exporters would be hit with charges of million a year by the Port of Melbourne, a meeting heard last week. And travel and freight prices will rise on the Spirit of Tasmania, TT-Line has warned.
TT-Line said it would need to put up passenger vehicle fares...
Infrastructure Minister Anthony Albanese yesterday introduced to parliament the long-awaited package of five pieces of legislation aimed at reviving the local shipping industry.
The Australian fleet has plunged from 55 to 21 ships, and just four of these operate on global...
A SHIP operated by the Royal Australian Navy will be crewed by civilians, as the service explores ways to keep its fleet at sea in the face of rampant poaching of sailors by cashed-up mining firms.
Defence Minister Stephen Smith yesterday announced that the navy's newest ship, a...
There are claims an influx of bulk carriers entering Australian waters is posing a significant risk to the Great Barrier Reef.
Reef Pilots Australia says vast tracts of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park are unprotected because low-cost foreign crews lack experience and local...
Few professional mariners can now be unaware of the names of the recent spectacular grounding incidents occurring first to the container vessel ‘Rena’ off the coast of New Zealand and then, that of the ‘Costa Concordia ‘ off the western coast of Italy. Both ship names have now been...
On Sunday 4 March Channel 7 aired a report on the civil claims in the USA against MMA
This is the letter sent to Australian Securities Exchange on 2 March
The Listing Manager Australian Securities Exchange Ltd Level 4, Stock Exchange Centre 20 Bridge Street SYDNEY NSW 2000...
NORWAY-based boat handling system and specialised davit supplier Vestdavit has been contracted by shipbuilder Austal to supply its state-of-the-art PLAR-6500 davits to eight new Cape Class Patrol Boats (CCPBs) to be built for the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service....
Austal has secured an order for a highly efficient medium speed ferry with leading French Polynesian operator and existing customer, SNC Aremiti Ferry. The 80 metre vehicle-passenger catamaran is scheduled for delivery in October 2013.
This is the fourth vessel Austal has sold...
Cruise operators, shipowners and industry groups are opposed to the Victorian government's decision to impose a US million licence fee on the Port of Melbourne, claiming it will hurt competitiveness, reported The Australian Financial Review. The charge, announced in December,...
By the time Australia's newest Collins class submarine returns to service in September or October next year the vessel will have been laid up for repairs and maintenance for longer than it has been in use. A Senate estimates hearing has been told HMAS Rankin was pulled out of service...
Parliamentary Secretary for Defence, the Hon Dr Mike Kelly, AM, MP and the Commander Australian Fleet, Rear Admiral Tim Barrett, AM, CSC, RAN were on the wharf on Friday 10 Februaryto farewell HMAS Melbourne, as she sailed for her third tour of duty as part of Operation...
The containership ‘MSC Carole’ has been honoured by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) for its prompt assistance of survivors from the ‘Rabual Queen’ ferry disaster in Papua New Guinea last week. The ship and its crew were honoured with a presentation from AMSA’s Ian...
Australia would save billions of dollars if it leased used US nuclear submarines to replace the troubled Collins-class fleet, an American naval expert says. ''If you want to utilise the submarine force for long-range missions the nuclear submarine is the queen of the seas,'' Sam...
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