In the recent Federal Budget, the Australian Federal Government announced a variety of shipping, trade, maritime measures. These include: Disruption provision of interest free loans from the National Reconstruction Fund to help manufacturing and logistics businesses in critical supply chains manage market disruption; $4.5 million over three years from 2026–27 for the Commonwealth Scientific and...

Seafarer happiness may possibly have taken a little bit of a wobble of late, according to the Mission to Seafarers (MtS) Seafarers’ Happiness Index. But an alternative view based on the same data is that seafarer happiness is holding up remarkably well and, indeed, there appears to be an ongoing improvement in happiness. The MtS...