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Modest profit expected in 2010: Maersk chief
Cautiously consigning shipping’s annus horribilis to history, AP Moller-Maersk Group reported a US$1bn loss for 2009 and predicted a modest return to profit this year.
Authority slams Maersk FPSOs on Australian explosion
The Danish Maritime Authority has released a scathing finding on the causes of the Maersk FPSOs-owned Ngujima-Jin floating production storage and offloading vessel explosion off Western Australia last year.
Hapag-Lloyd clears 4000 teu from Sydney
Hapag-Lloyd evacuated about 4000 teu of empties from Patrick's container terminal at Port Botany on Tuesday using the freshly-built boxship, JPO Volans.
Anketell Point to be Pilbara's new deepwater port
The Western Australian Government has backed the construction of a deepwater iron ore port at Anketell Point, 30 km east of Karratha.
Researchers to solve transport problems
National ICT Australia (NICTA) will join forces with the German software and systems developer, Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE), to research and solve difficult transport and logistics problems.
Terrorist threat to see Malacca security tightened
Security is expected to be tightened for ships transiting the Strait of Malacca after Singapore's navy warned of a terrorist threat.
NSW to wait and see on inside lane truck ban
New South Wales will look at Victoria's proposed ban on heavy vehicles using the inside lane of multi-lane freeways but urgency on the issue appeared absent yesterday.
ACCC backs junior iron ore push for rail access
Australia’s competition regulator has thrown its support behind a group of junior iron ore producers looking to collectively bargain for access to the rail tracks owned by their larger counterparts in the Pilbara region.
