Oceania

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…