Oceania

The Victorian Transport Association has told the state government that the dangers of avoiding channel deepening at the port of Melbourne and its approaches, far outweigh the risks of doing so. 

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.…

Port Otago is currently rolling out what is understood to be one of the first multi-terminal container operating systems in the world.The Jade Master Terminal container management software solution will provide an…

Congestion problems continue to dog Australia’ s coal ports. Recently Queensland Rail rejected blame for queues at Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal, saying the fault lies more with other supply chain issues, such…

New Zealand’ s forestry exporting ports are flourishing, with a construction boom in Asia and export log restrictions in Russia pushing the price of locally-produced logs up 20% over the past year,writes…

Coastal shipping advocates in New Zealand will soon discover if the Government intends putting their transport mode on an equal footing with road and rail in funding and policy decisions. 

Port Marlborough’ s Shakespeare Bay facility has been selected as the spoolbase for the NZ$1bn ($766m) offshore Taranaki Kupe gas pipelaying project. 

Australia’ s Patrick Corp has firmed up orders for 15 seventh generation Kalmar straddle carriers for its terminals in Melbourne and Sydney. 

Australia’ s competition watchdog, the ACCC, has given draft approval for capacity rationing to return to the port of Newcastle. The approval authorises rationing until the end of this year, and assumes…

Privately-operated coal terminals in Queensland have rejected any offer to publicly fund their export infrastructure, despite vessel queues reaching record levels. 

They feel that their private investments are underpinned by long-term contracts with mining companies and therefore public money is unnecessary.Marlborough harbourmaster Captain Alex van Wijngaarden is seeking radar, expansion of the automatic…