Jim Wilson

Shipping Australia was pleased to hold or NSW Spring Luncheon 2026 at the Sydney Harbour Marriott on Pitt Street late last week. Held on 03 September, our guests were treated to a delicious three course meal, consisting of the soup of the day, an alternate service of Barramundi with shaved asparagus, pea puree and smoked...

Brazilian national Roberta Duarte will join Maersk as Chief People Officer from 01 November, succeeding Susan Elvira. Ms Duarte was previously with Maersk from 2014 to 2024. In her previous time with Maersk she held senior people-leadership roles across the regions Asia Pacific and Latin America as well as Ocean & Logistics before joining Werfen,...

Edward Rhys Jones, University of Oxford (first published in The Conversation, August 22, 2026). Sea Legend, a Chinese shipping line, recently announced it was launching a regular container service between China and Europe via the Arctic. The announcement follows a trial crossing in 2025 that saw a container ship travel from the port of Ningbo-Zhoushan...

Peter Draper, University of Adelaide and Nathan Howard Gray, University of Adelaide The global trading system that promoted free trade and underpinned global prosperity for 80 years now stands at a crossroads. Recent trade policy developments have introduced unprecedented levels of uncertainty – not least, the upheaval caused by United States President Donald Trump’s sweeping...

By the IMO Thousands of seafarers have been stuck in the Persian Gulf since the current conflict in the Middle East began on 28 February this year. To date, at least 70 attacks on international shipping have been verified by IMO, with 19 seafarers killed. With maritime security threats on the rise globally, IMO Secretary-General...

Australia’s coastal licensing system is built around nominated voyages. The freight most likely to shift needs a predictable service.  The first article in this series argued that Australia should identify which freight could realistically move by sea rather than keep debating how much ought to. The second found that such freight exists in pieces, spread...

BIMCO, European Shipowners | ECSA, the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), INTERCARGO, INTERTANKO, and World Shipping Council (WSC) have welcomed the European Commission’s proposal to add two Indian ship recycling facilities to the updated European List of Ship Recycling Facilities. The shipping industry has advocated for the inclusion of compliant non-OECD yards since the entry...

Red Sea Gateway Terminal (RSGT), Saudi Arabia’s leading terminal operator, and CMA CGM Group, a global player in sea, land, air and logistics solutions, have signed definitive agreements to jointly develop and operate Terminal 4 at Jeddah Islamic Port, in collaboration with Saudi Ports Authority (Mawani), marking one of the largest foreign direct investments in...

Freight forwarders consolidate cargo every day. Assembling enough visible, committed demand to support a coastal service that does not yet run is a different problem. The previous article argued that Australia should stop debating how much freight ought to move by sea and start identifying which freight realistically could. It ended on an awkward finding....

Mr Angus Mitchell has been re-appointed as Chief Commissioner and CEO to the ATSB Commission for a further five-year term. As Chief Commissioner, Mr Mitchell has overseen a number of significant investigative cases, as well as a period of expansion in both the volume and accessibility of safety information available through the ATSB. Mr James...