P&O Cruises and its parent company Carnival Corporation are facing a first-of-its-kind class action lawsuit, which will allege that  passengers were subject to predatory lending and incentives to keep gambling. The class action lawsuit, organised ...

Image Credits: Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation/Linkedin THE first transfer of ammonia from one vessel to another recently was achieved at Port Dampier in Western Australia, a key test for its adoption as a marine fuel, Reuters ...

Source: MMA Offshore Ørsted has awarded MMA Offshore an offshore wind site survey contract off the coast of Australia On behalf of its client, Ørsted, the scope is said to be one of the first reconnaissance site surveys taking place in the ...

On 11 November, Premier Roger Cook announced that Westport has received funding for Stage 4 of the program, detailed design. The Premier has announced the State Government will invest $273 million to progress Westport to project definition ...

Port Authority partnered with Avcon Projects to design the custom-built onshore pilot ladder training facility which includes a full nine-metre length ladder suspended over shipping containers and a step-off platform to simulate the challenging task ...

A newly built Spirit of Tasmania ferry will be temporarily stored at a shipyard in Scotland while the Tasmanian government explores options to lease or charter the ship until a home berth can be completed. The vessel must leave its shipyard in ...

Port of Newcastle’s Clean Energy Precinct (CEP) project has reached a development milestone, with the signing of agreements for front-end engineering designs (FEED) and environmental impact statements (EIS) covering electrical infrastructure, water ...

Fremantle Ports on 3 October proudly launched two new locally built pilot vessels that will facilitate efficient ship movements fundamental to the operations of the port. The $7.6 million Berkeley Class pilot vessels are West Australian-built in ...

Bulk carrier Poavosa Brave, Serious injury, Off Tauranga, 23 June 2023 What happenedOn 23 June 2023 a crew member was seriously injured on board the bulk carrier Poavosa Brave.   The vessel was at anchor outside Tauranga Harbour and the crew was ...

According to Blue Economy CRC, wave energy could boost Australia’s AUD 118 billion (approximately $81,4 billion) blue economy, driving opportunities in fabrication, installation, and marine operations. Australia already has existing elements that ...

Navigator Global and the Green Pioneer at dusk at the outer anchorage of Port Dampier-2 A Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation-led consortium has successfully conducted ship-to-ship transfers of ammonia at anchorages within the Port of ...

Finnish shipbuilder Rauma Marine Constructions (RMC) has delivered Spirit of Tasmania IV, an LNG-powered car and passenger (RoPax) ferry, to Tasmanian TT-Line Company. The vessel is one of two car and passenger ferries that TT-Line ordered from RMC ...

KiwiRail has been ordered to pay a fine of hundreds of thousands after its Kaitaki ferry lost power last year. The company has to pay $432,500, including costs associated with the case. KiwiRail was sentenced this afternoon in the Wellington ...

Incat Tasmania’s expansion plans have taken a significant step forward with the Tasmanian shipbuilder acquiring a portion of the Norske Skog Boyer Mill site at Boyer. The acquisition of the 12-hectare site on the river Derwent, located north-west ...

Crew visible on the stranded barge Manahau. Photo: RNZ / Samantha Gee Maritime NZ staff and Westland Mineral Sands are working on a plan to refloat the stranded barge Manahau at Carters Beach, near Westport. The barge, which is owned by Westland ...

Two people on the STS Leeuwin were injured. Photo ABC  (Supplied: Roel Loopers ) Two night watchmen taken to hospital after three-masted 1850s-style sailing ship hit by 332-metre vessel A container ship has dismasted the tall ship Leeuwin and ...

Australia’s energy giant Santos is on track to achieve the first gas next year from its project in Commonwealth waters, as a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, which is currently still under construction, is slated to move to ...

The Australian government is about to retire the patrol boat HMAS BROOME from active service. The news was announced on the official X [formerly Twitter] account of the Australian Government Department of Defence on August 17. “Final port entry HMAS ...

The following was received from our colleague at AMPI regarding the mentoring program. CMMA Australia is a member of IFSMA. The Australian Maritime Mentoring Program is an exciting new joint initiative between the Australasian Marine Pilots ...

Solstad Offshore ASA (Solstad) confirmed that the large AHTS Normand Ranger has been awarded a contract in Australia for commencement in 2Q 2021.  The vessel will mobilise from Norway and will then provide support to a major drilling campaign ...

Stevedores’ revenues and profit margins increased overall in the last financial year despite the global pandemic causing the largest contraction in container volumes in a decade, according to the ACCC’s Container Stevedoring Monitoring Report ...

A new strategic cargo terminal has been officially opened at the recently upgraded Berth 4 Terminal at the Port of Townsville with the arrival of ‘Coronado Bay’. Today is the first time a container vessel has fully utilised the $10 million, 1.6 ...

Tauranga-based stevedoring company, C3 Limited, was fined $240,000 by the Auckland District Court yesterday after a 15 tonne excavator was dropped from a ship’s crane, narrowly missing five workers on the wharf below. “This was seconds away from ...

Dear colleagues, Hope all of you and your families are keeping safe and healthy. The news coming out these days is quite positive and as long as we continue to do the right thing individually, it can only get better. That being said, between ...

CMMA Queensland Branch are regular marchers at the ANZAC Day Parade. Due to the COVID19 shutdown Branch Members, Captain William Burton and Captain John Ellis were able to maintain the tradition by by having a driveway meeting with CMMA insignia on ...

  Good Day Members   On April 4th 2020 the Federal Court held its Annual General Meeting (AGM). It was planned to be held in Melbourne at the Seamans Centre however due to the restrictions imposed dsue to the COVID-19 outbreak then the meeting ...

Australian Industrial Energy (AIE) has today lodged a Modification to its existing Development Consent (Consent) for its Port Kembla Gas Terminal in order to meet higher demand for natural gas during peak periods. As first flagged to the NSW ...

On 10 June 2018, the Danish-registered container ship Leda Maersk arrived off the Port of Otago, embarked a harbour pilot, and proceeded up the Lower Harbour channel at about 1800, during the hours of darkness. The master, officer of the watch and ...

Port owner and operator Flinders Port Holdings intends to develop a new 50-year masterplan to guide the short, medium and long-term development of the seven South Australian ports under its control, including the container terminal at Port ...

Australia’s newest and biggest cargo ship was named as Tasmanian Achiever II at a special ceremony in Burnie Sunday (Feb17). Tasmanian Achiever II is the largest general cargo ship to fly the Australian flag and is set to enter service on 1 March, ...

The Palaszczuk Government’s new transhipping policy will protect the Great Barrier Reef and the tens of thousands of jobs that rely on the Reef.Minister for Environment and the Great Barrier Reef Leeanne Enoch said the Palaszczuk Government was ...

On April 28 at a ceremony in Hobart Tasmania, the Australian Government signed a contract with DMS Maritime, a wholly owned subsidiary of Serco, for the delivery, operation and maintenance of an Antarctic Supply Research Vessel (ASRV) with ...

Maurice Thompson and Joel Cockerell of Clyde & Co LLP (Clyde & Co) say that Australian maritime law has been "radically" altered after a recent decision on maritime lien enforcement in relation to bunker supply contracts was handed down in an ...

VIKING Life-Saving Equipment A/S has announced it has acquired a part of Australia-based Wiltrading Pty Ltd.’s maritime safety equipment activities effective 1 September. The move strengthens VIKING’s offering in Australasia, adding 4 locations to ...

Stuart Ballantyne, CEO of Sea Transportation Corporation presented this paper at the recent ICHA Conference in Adelaide. The paper is essential  reading for anyone interested in the future of coastal shipping in Australia. Stuart is a member of our ...

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The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) is urging people to ensure they dispose of their obsolete and unwanted distress beacons correctly after emergency services spent more than six hours homing a beacon eventually found dumped in bushland ...

The 2014-15 cruise season is shaping up to be big for Fremantle with 44 ship calls already booked compared with 31 ship calls (60,592 passengers) in the 2013-14 financial year. Fremantle is increasingly being used as a turnaround port with Sun ...

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) is urging people to beware of a global scam offering overseas residents a Maritime Security Identification Card (MSIC) and Australian visas to gain jobs with cruise companies. Scammers have been ...

  A CIVILIAN contract crew made two serious errors during sea trials for the navy’s biggest ever ship, damaging its hull and melting down electrical systems. The first of two $1.5 billion 27,000-tonne Landing Helicopter Docks (LHDs), to be known ...

A fresh controversy is brewing over the use of factory ships in Australian waters, with a plan to bring in a 4400-tonne east European-owned ship. MERIDIAN 1 would fish for blue grenadier in the Southern Ocean off Tasmania at a time of opposition to ...

Flensburger-Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG) has chalked up yet another global sales success by signing a contract with the Australian shipping company SeaRoad for a 181 metres long RoRo ferry ship new building. What is special about this ship however ...

From 1 July 2014, the government will decrease the Protection of the Sea Levy (PSL) to 11.25 cents per net registered tonne for defined vessels on an ongoing basis. The PSL revenue was levied to establish a $10 million pollution response fund to ...

Former submariners and retired admirals want the federal government to stump up “a fraction” of the taxpayer money spent on the search for Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 to try and find Australia’s first submarine. The nation’s most enduring ...

Holland America Line has completed an agreement for the transfer of RYNDAM and ms STATENDAM to their sister brand P&O Cruises in Australia, with delivery scheduled for November 2015. This announcement is also being shared right now with our ...

Sydney - Australia said on Monday it will spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a new icebreaker ship to bolster its claim over large areas of Antarctica and replace an ageing vessel. 

Environment minister Greg Hunt said two Europe-based firms ...

Port of Napier has been guiding large vessels through Hawke's Bay waters using procedures outside maritime law for more than a decade, an investigation has found. In August last year the cargo ship IDAS Bulker departed Napier with a full cargo of ...

1) The Interislander's boss has rejected accusations by NZ First leader Winston Peters that Kiwirail covered up three"serious incidents" involving the problem-plagued Cook Strait ferries in the past week - but has not denied two are being ...

Deal signed for the Port of Melbourne’s third international container terminal International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) and Anglo Ports, through their Australian subsidiary, Victoria International Container Terminal Limited (VICTL), ...

Princess Cruises has announced its first-ever year-round program of sailing from Fremantle in a move which reflects the growing popularity of cruises from Western Australia. Releasing its new 2015-16 cruise schedules, Princess Cruises revealed that ...

Australian warship HMAS Darwin has seized more than a tonne of heroin valued at almost $290 million from a smuggling boat off Kenya. The record 1032-kilogram haul was discovered aboard a dhow in the Indian Ocean, about 27 nautical miles east of ...

It took an Interislander ferry more than two hours and three attempts to berth at Picton. Picton man Kit Stevens watched from his window overlooking the Picton harbour as the Stena Alegra ferry first tried to berth about 6.30am. He and his wife ...