Oceania

Ports of Auckland has commenced a US$39m project to both extend the Axis Fergusson container terminal to handle future volume and deepen Rangitoto Channel to widen the tidal window for larger containerships.

New Zealand port companies will retain title to reclaimed land required for infrastructure development through the controversial Foreshore and Seabed Act introduced last week.

Smith' s Detection has received an order from the Australian Customs Service for its newly introduced container/ palletised goods cargo X-ray system, HI-SCAN 250250, to go into service at Adelaide.

The $289m port of Melbourne channel-deepening project in Port Phillip Bay was effectively given the green light in July after the public release of a long-awaited environmental effects statement (EES).

It would be overstretching the point to suggest that New Zealand is facing a turning point in its ports and land transport development. But if some of the country’ s leading transportation…

The bulk carrier log-jam off the Australian east coast has finally dissipated to manageable levels following drastic action at the countrys major coal port. Chris Taylor reports on the reasons behind the…