Friday 5 December 08 - 13:12
 

Australia through the years

  • A leap of faith

    Has a 'fewer and bigger' mantra paid off for the ports industry down under ask Dave and Iain MacIntyre
     

  • Mother used to know best

    Fifty years ago the wharves of Australia and New Zealand’s ports were lined with goods almost exclusively headed for and received from the 'Mother Country’, namely the British Isles.  

  • Ups and downs for coastal shipping

    The coastal shipping network that bound New Zealand’s ports together fifty years ago was struck a severe blow following the introduction of the Maritime Transport Act in 1994. 

  • Chilly change to meat trade

    Australasian ports have had to buy-in to the demands of cold chain monitoring, as the international meat trades have grown more sophisticated over the last 50 years.  

  • Fingers, strips and strikes

    An aerial view of most Australian and New Zealand ports 50 years ago would have revealed a profusion of narrow timber wharves lining river banks and copious finger piers protruding into harbours and bays. 

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