Oceania

Lyttelton Port of Christchurch has signed a contract with Lawson Software to install its M3 Enterprise Asset Management, Finance and e-Procurement applications, which are expected to minimise downtime and optimise maintenance resources.

Improved productivity at existing Lyttelton Port of Christchurch (LPC) container berths may see a planned NZ$26m ($19.3m) upgrade of Cashin Quay Number Two delayed by two years.

The aborted merger between the New Zealand ports of Tauranga and Auckland cost Tauranga alone NZ$1.2m ($890,484) in third-party research costs.

Babcock & Brown Infrastructure (BBI) has rejected criticism from Queensland premier Peter Beattie describing Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal (DBCT) as the worst port in the state.

Port Otagos appointment of a science, engineering and logistics team to investigate its plan to become the only South Island deep-water container port has impressed the Customs Brokers and Freight Forwarders Federation.

Recent financial results reported by New Zealand ports included the year-end from South Port, which reported a comparable 8.6% dip in after-tax profit to NZ$2.23m ($1.7m) and 1% drop in revenue to…

Blame-shifting over investment in ports infrastructure has come under fire by ports lobby group the Association of Australian Ports and Marine Authorities (AAPMA), which says that bickering has stopped progress.

A slightly reduced dividend is being predicted by Port Nelson over the next few years, primarily as a result of the loss earlier this year of the Maersk Line Asian service call.

Divers have wrapped wharf posts at New Zealand’ s South Port in plastic in an attempt to suffocate the invasive underwater pest Undaria. A recent check of 65 boats at the port…

Dubai World’ s chairman, Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, has toured subsidiary DP World’ s container terminal in Brisbane and underlined the strategic significance of the port to the group. He compared Brisbane…

An inquiry into the impact of port planning on competition for container stevedoring services in Victorian ports is to be conducted by the state’ s economic regulator. 

The port of Newcastle could begin handling an overflow of containers from Port Botany much sooner than originally planned. 

Container lines are losing up to A$400,000 ($343,400) for a round trip to Melbourne because of draught restrictions, the inquiry into channel deepening has been told. Shipping Australia warned that lines could…

Aggressive protestors and extended environmental obligations have forced Solid Energy to invoke force majeure provisions and temporarily reduce export coal volume through Lyttelton Port of Christchurch (LPC).Initially expecting to encounter about 1,000…

Portland has released a strategy to cope with anticipated freight growth in the “ Green Triangle” – the area in the southeast of South Australia and western Victoria, served by the port.…