Oceania

Gladstone Ports Corporation is to invest A$2.4m ($2.1m) in wind barriers around its coal stockpiles in an attempt to reduce dust escaping into the surrounding community.

DP World will spend A$250m ($219.4m) upgrading its Brisbane terminals after signing a 40-year lease agreement with the Port of Brisbane Corp.

The Simpson, Spence and Young Australian Coal Port Congestion Index has dropped to 7.1 days, the lowest it has been since October 2006.

A new two-year collective employment agreement has been reached between Port Otago and the Combined Unions.

Environmental protesters temporarily blockaded rail access for coal trains to the Australian port of Newcastle in August. In the first five months of this year, throughput has increased by 1.5m tonnes to…

New Zealands port industry is set to gain the fruits of a coastal shipping growth.

Port Kembla could get seven new berths as part of a makeover of its outer harbour, under a master state ports plan for New South Wales.

Continuing high bulk vessel charter rates are seeing New Zealand forestry product exporters increasingly investigating containerising their consignments.