Oceania

Development of the Port of Tauranga and Lyttelton Port of Christchurch (LPC) as the sole 7000-teu vessel-capable ports in New Zealand could deliver a NZ$338m (US$244m) per year benefit to the country’s…

New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER) senior fellow Brent Layton has challenged the prevalence of local authority ownership in the local port scene and effectively accused two of the country’s leading…

New South Wales has a new Minister for Ports and Waterways. Eric Roozendaal has been chosen by Premier Kristina Keneally and will also remain as Treasurer. Mr Roozendaal had six months in…

Finance has been secured for an A$900m (US$807m) expansion at Newcastle, the world’s largest coal export port, with export capacity at the New South Wales port planned to reach 180m tonnes per…

Lyttelton Port of Christchurch (LPC) has acquired 7.3 hectares of industrial land adjacent to its inland port operation, CityDepot.

New Zealand’s port companies are lobbying to repeal part of the 2004 Foreshore and Seabed Act and once again be granted a fee simple title on new land created as a result…

For the second year running Port Botany’s Container Terminal Expansion has been given the tick of approval from an audit looking at environmental and planning impacts.

New Zealand infrastructure investor Infratil has announced it is interested in adding its name to the bidding groups for the 99-year lease over Port of Brisbane being offered by the Queensland government.

Port Otago has filed a resource consent application to deepen and widen its harbour channel, dispose of dredging spoil and extend wharves and berths. Expected to cost NZ$100m (US$70.7m), the project is…

An Australian mining port is to install a vacuum-based automated mooring technology. Hammersley Iron Pty, a subsidiary of Rio Tinto, is putting in eight MoorMaster units at the Dampier Fuel Wharf, Parker…

Ports Australia has advocated that state governments adopt a “best practice” to protect valuable port land from possible encroachment by other urban developments.

A holding company may be established to operate a range of developing Hawke’s Bay Regional Council assets as well as its currently wholly-owned Port of Napier.

Victoria’s Liberal-National opposition party is pressing the state government to include the private sector in a fast-tracked plan for a container terminal at the port of Hastings. The party said it would…

Draft recommendations for Australia’s National Ports Strategy would see ports extending their sphere of influence into inland freight corridors, in order to streamline port interfaces.

Lyttelton Port of Christchurch (LPC) chief executive Peter Davie predicts there will only be a handful of international container ports in New Zealand within the next decade, as a second tier of…