Photo: USN Instead of spending billions on Virginia-class subs, Australia could forge its own way For more than a century, Australia has followed the same defence policy: dependence on a great power. This was first the United Kingdom and then the ...

The Board of Directors of Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ), India’s integrated transport utility company, has approved the acquisition of Abbot Point Port Holdings (APPH), the holder of the entities which own and operate the North ...

Photo: Roel Loepers An ATSB investigation interim report outlines the sequence of events leading up to the collision of a container ship with the berthed tall ship STS Leeuwin II in Fremantle last August. The 333 m, Singapore-flagged container ...

Leading global digital shipbuilder Incat Crowther and US shipbuilder Nichols Brothers Boat Builders (NBBB) have been selected by San Francisco’s Water Emergency Transportation Authority (WETA) to design and deliver two new cutting-edge electric ...

CMB.TECH NV (NYSE: CMBT & Euronext: CMBT) (CMB.TECH) has signed an agreement with Fortescue to charter a new ammonia-powered vessel.  This emphasises the commitment of both companies to decarbonise the shipping industry. This 210,000-dwt ...

Photo: by Profile Boats who were involved in rescuing the crew of HMNZS Manawanui "A series of human errors" and a culture that prioritised accomplishing missions over safety are among factors deemed to have led to the sinking of the HMNZS ...

Photo: Teledyne Marine SeaBat T51 S with 800kHz full swath capability & depth rated to 6000m UK’s trade and development body for the underwater industry Global Underwater Hub (GUH) and Subsea Innovation Cluster Australia (SICA), a membership ...

Australia-headquartered Viva Energy, an energy infrastructure business, has engaged the services of Poten & Partners, a liquefied natural gas (LNG) consultant, to secure a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) for its proposed LNG terminal ...

Australia and Singapore have jointly selected eight projects for funding under the Australia-Singapore Initiative on Low Emissions Technologies (ASLET), a $20 million program aimed at reducing emissions in the maritime sector, according to MPA's ...

Energy-to-defense giant set to become largest shareholder of key vessel supply to US Navy South Korean conglomerate Hanwha Group is positioning itself to become the largest shareholder of Austal, one of four key companies directly supplying vessels ...

  CMA CGM Baalbeck, an 8,000 TEU containership owned by French shipping major CMA CGM, has become “the very first” LNG-powered containership to call ports in Australia. Shane Walden, ANL Managing Director, described the vessel’s journey as ...

Gladstone Magistrates Court has fined Universal Shipping Alliance Ltd, owner of foreign-flagged bulk carrier KMAX Leader, $63,000 for failing to comply with an Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) written direction and ordered them to pay ...

The iconic Leeuwin sailing ship — which was destroyed by a huge container vessel while docked in Fremantle last year — is on the hunt for suitable and qualified volunteers to help with its eventual rebuild. The STS LEEUWIN II was left with broken ...

Australia’s Blue Economy Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) has inaugurated what is claimed to be Tasmania’s “first” green hydrogen production and research facility. The unit, which is situated at BOC Australia’s Lutana site in Hobart, supports ...

Australia’s vulnerability to maritime trade disruption is well recognized. International shipping moves some 99 per cent of the nation’s traded goods by volume worth A$755 billion in 2021, and provides not just prosperity but also vital resources ...

Executive summary What happenedIn the early hours of 25 May 2023, the container ship CMA CGM Puccini was departing the port ofMelbourne under the conduct of a harbour pilot. As the ship continued downriver, main enginepower was increased and the ...

Austal Limited (ASX: ASB) is pleased to announce Austal Australasia has been awarded a contract valued between A$265 and A$275 million by Gotlandsbolaget of Sweden, for the design and construction of a 130-metre combined cycle, ‘hydrogen-ready’ ...

Australia’s NH3 Clean Energy, formerly Hexagon Energy Materials, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Pilbara Ports Authority exploring the options for the loading and export of 600,000 tonnes per annum (TPA) of clean ammonia from ...

Singapore-based shipbuilder Strategic Marine has signed a contract with Odyssey Group under which it will construct a new multi-purpose survey vessel for the Australian maritime logistics provider. Strategic Marine said that the vessel would be ...

With a world-wide shortage of seafarers’, a Northern Australia business is training up its own workforce in collaboration with Charles Darwin University (CDU) TAFE to ensure essential services to remote communities are maintained without relying on ...

(Photo: Australian DoD) The Australian Department of Defense has taken delivery of the first Arafura-class offshore patrol vessel, NUSHIP Arafura, for further testing and evaluation ahead of delivery to the Royal Australian Navy. NUSHIP Arafura, ...

After months of anticipation and excitement, Princess Cruises’ Crown Princess has set sail from Sydney Harbour with hundreds of Sydney Swans members on the first-ever AFL Member cruise to Hobart and back. Princess Cruises is the official Cruise line ...

Ocean Drover is one of the world's largest purpose-built livestock vessels. (ABC Rural: Carl Curtain) Livestock shipping company Wellard is considering its future after striking a deal to sell its only remaining revenue-generating asset, the Ocean ...

Svitzer, a leading global towage provider, and Höegh Autoliners, a leading global provider of ocean transportation services in the Roll-on, Roll-off segment, have partnered to deliver Svitzer’s first ever EcoTow solution in Australia, servicing the ...

photo  ABF Eleven Indonesian nationals pleaded guilty to illegally fishing in Australian waters at Darwin Local Court on 7 January 2025.  The case arose from an incident on 18 December 2024 when Australian authorities identified, intercepted and ...

A salvage barge has been securely moored above the wreck of Navy ship MANAWANU in Samoa, with fuel recovery from the sunken ship expected to start early in 2025. Salvage divers had started familiarising themselves with the ship and marking out fuel ...

Oceanographers at The University of Western Australia are set to make advances in wave forecasting with the deployment of small drifting wave buoys that promise to improve the accuracy of wave predictions, allowing for safer and more informed ...

Image Credits: Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation/Linkedin THE first transfer of ammonia from one vessel to another recently was achieved at Port Dampier in Western Australia, a key test for its adoption as a marine fuel, Reuters ...

The following was received from our colleague at AMPI regarding the mentoring program. CMMA Australia is a member of IFSMA. The Australian Maritime Mentoring Program is an exciting new joint initiative between the Australasian Marine Pilots ...

Solstad Offshore ASA (Solstad) confirmed that the large AHTS Normand Ranger has been awarded a contract in Australia for commencement in 2Q 2021.  The vessel will mobilise from Norway and will then provide support to a major drilling campaign ...

Stevedores’ revenues and profit margins increased overall in the last financial year despite the global pandemic causing the largest contraction in container volumes in a decade, according to the ACCC’s Container Stevedoring Monitoring Report ...

A new strategic cargo terminal has been officially opened at the recently upgraded Berth 4 Terminal at the Port of Townsville with the arrival of ‘Coronado Bay’. Today is the first time a container vessel has fully utilised the $10 million, 1.6 ...

Tauranga-based stevedoring company, C3 Limited, was fined $240,000 by the Auckland District Court yesterday after a 15 tonne excavator was dropped from a ship’s crane, narrowly missing five workers on the wharf below. “This was seconds away from ...

Dear colleagues, Hope all of you and your families are keeping safe and healthy. The news coming out these days is quite positive and as long as we continue to do the right thing individually, it can only get better. That being said, between ...

CMMA Queensland Branch are regular marchers at the ANZAC Day Parade. Due to the COVID19 shutdown Branch Members, Captain William Burton and Captain John Ellis were able to maintain the tradition by by having a driveway meeting with CMMA insignia on ...

  Good Day Members   On April 4th 2020 the Federal Court held its Annual General Meeting (AGM). It was planned to be held in Melbourne at the Seamans Centre however due to the restrictions imposed dsue to the COVID-19 outbreak then the meeting ...

Australian Industrial Energy (AIE) has today lodged a Modification to its existing Development Consent (Consent) for its Port Kembla Gas Terminal in order to meet higher demand for natural gas during peak periods. As first flagged to the NSW ...

On 10 June 2018, the Danish-registered container ship Leda Maersk arrived off the Port of Otago, embarked a harbour pilot, and proceeded up the Lower Harbour channel at about 1800, during the hours of darkness. The master, officer of the watch and ...

Port owner and operator Flinders Port Holdings intends to develop a new 50-year masterplan to guide the short, medium and long-term development of the seven South Australian ports under its control, including the container terminal at Port ...

Australia’s newest and biggest cargo ship was named as Tasmanian Achiever II at a special ceremony in Burnie Sunday (Feb17). Tasmanian Achiever II is the largest general cargo ship to fly the Australian flag and is set to enter service on 1 March, ...

The Palaszczuk Government’s new transhipping policy will protect the Great Barrier Reef and the tens of thousands of jobs that rely on the Reef.Minister for Environment and the Great Barrier Reef Leeanne Enoch said the Palaszczuk Government was ...

On April 28 at a ceremony in Hobart Tasmania, the Australian Government signed a contract with DMS Maritime, a wholly owned subsidiary of Serco, for the delivery, operation and maintenance of an Antarctic Supply Research Vessel (ASRV) with ...

Maurice Thompson and Joel Cockerell of Clyde & Co LLP (Clyde & Co) say that Australian maritime law has been "radically" altered after a recent decision on maritime lien enforcement in relation to bunker supply contracts was handed down in an ...

VIKING Life-Saving Equipment A/S has announced it has acquired a part of Australia-based Wiltrading Pty Ltd.’s maritime safety equipment activities effective 1 September. The move strengthens VIKING’s offering in Australasia, adding 4 locations to ...

Stuart Ballantyne, CEO of Sea Transportation Corporation presented this paper at the recent ICHA Conference in Adelaide. The paper is essential  reading for anyone interested in the future of coastal shipping in Australia. Stuart is a member of our ...

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The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) is urging people to ensure they dispose of their obsolete and unwanted distress beacons correctly after emergency services spent more than six hours homing a beacon eventually found dumped in bushland ...

The 2014-15 cruise season is shaping up to be big for Fremantle with 44 ship calls already booked compared with 31 ship calls (60,592 passengers) in the 2013-14 financial year. Fremantle is increasingly being used as a turnaround port with Sun ...

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) is urging people to beware of a global scam offering overseas residents a Maritime Security Identification Card (MSIC) and Australian visas to gain jobs with cruise companies. Scammers have been ...

  A CIVILIAN contract crew made two serious errors during sea trials for the navy’s biggest ever ship, damaging its hull and melting down electrical systems. The first of two $1.5 billion 27,000-tonne Landing Helicopter Docks (LHDs), to be known ...

A fresh controversy is brewing over the use of factory ships in Australian waters, with a plan to bring in a 4400-tonne east European-owned ship. MERIDIAN 1 would fish for blue grenadier in the Southern Ocean off Tasmania at a time of opposition to ...

Flensburger-Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG) has chalked up yet another global sales success by signing a contract with the Australian shipping company SeaRoad for a 181 metres long RoRo ferry ship new building. What is special about this ship however ...

From 1 July 2014, the government will decrease the Protection of the Sea Levy (PSL) to 11.25 cents per net registered tonne for defined vessels on an ongoing basis. The PSL revenue was levied to establish a $10 million pollution response fund to ...

Former submariners and retired admirals want the federal government to stump up “a fraction” of the taxpayer money spent on the search for Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 to try and find Australia’s first submarine. The nation’s most enduring ...

Holland America Line has completed an agreement for the transfer of RYNDAM and ms STATENDAM to their sister brand P&O Cruises in Australia, with delivery scheduled for November 2015. This announcement is also being shared right now with our ...

Sydney - Australia said on Monday it will spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a new icebreaker ship to bolster its claim over large areas of Antarctica and replace an ageing vessel. 

Environment minister Greg Hunt said two Europe-based firms ...

Port of Napier has been guiding large vessels through Hawke's Bay waters using procedures outside maritime law for more than a decade, an investigation has found. In August last year the cargo ship IDAS Bulker departed Napier with a full cargo of ...

1) The Interislander's boss has rejected accusations by NZ First leader Winston Peters that Kiwirail covered up three"serious incidents" involving the problem-plagued Cook Strait ferries in the past week - but has not denied two are being ...

Deal signed for the Port of Melbourne’s third international container terminal International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) and Anglo Ports, through their Australian subsidiary, Victoria International Container Terminal Limited (VICTL), ...

Princess Cruises has announced its first-ever year-round program of sailing from Fremantle in a move which reflects the growing popularity of cruises from Western Australia. Releasing its new 2015-16 cruise schedules, Princess Cruises revealed that ...

Australian warship HMAS Darwin has seized more than a tonne of heroin valued at almost $290 million from a smuggling boat off Kenya. The record 1032-kilogram haul was discovered aboard a dhow in the Indian Ocean, about 27 nautical miles east of ...

It took an Interislander ferry more than two hours and three attempts to berth at Picton. Picton man Kit Stevens watched from his window overlooking the Picton harbour as the Stena Alegra ferry first tried to berth about 6.30am. He and his wife ...