Jim Wilson

A significant port management bill has been introduced to the Victorian State Parliament and appears to be proceeding at speed through the State Parliament. The “Roads and Ports Legislation Amendment (Road Safety and Other Matters) Bill 2025” was introduced earlier this week on Tuesday 13 May by the Hon Melissa Horne MP, Minister for Ports...

Three different, legislated, government bodies that had a defined rescue-role under legislation, and state and national plans in relation to emergency response did not believe that a response to a distressed bulk carrier necessarily fell within their responsibility, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau has said. These different understandings left a significant proportion of an emergency...

It will be the 2025 International Day for Women in Maritime this weekend on Sunday 18 May 2025. This year’s theme is “Oceans of Opportunity”. Shipping Australia will be holding an event with WISTA next week in Melbourne to mark the day. Meanwhile, earlier this week, SAL CEO, Capt Melwyn Noronha travelled to Launceston, at...

By the Port Authority of NSW  Port Authority of New South Wales has welcomed the NSW Government’s appointment of John McKenna as Chief Executive Officer of the State-owned Corporation, effective immediately. John brings a wealth of commercial experience and a deep understanding of Port Authority’s operations to the role. Having previously served as the Chief...

Supplied by OneStop OneStop, a leading provider of supply chain optimisation solutions, announces the upcoming implementation of OneStop Modal at two key DP World facilities in Sydney and Melbourne, set to go live on 2 June 2025. This reflects the broader industry move toward greater digitisation, connectivity and real-time visibility across the supply chain. These...

We are pleased to invite you to our upcoming Breakfast Seminar titled “Shipping in Sydney Harbour and Glebe Island: Reflections on History, Present Use and Future Directions”. Please join us for a panel discussion on 28 May about the past and present use of Sydney Harbour and Glebe Island as an industrial port, as well...

A major policy re-think by the Office of the US Trade Representative to heavily penalise China-linked shipping calling in the United States has occurred. The shift took place following extensive industry and commercial backlash. Numerous submissions to the public policy consultation had heavily criticised the original policy; many different types of potentially affected businesses including...

Delegates from governments around the world have progressed the shipping industry’s plan to get to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by in an industry world-first set of mandatory emissions limits and greenhouse gas pricing across a whole sector. The recent session of the Maritime Environment Protection Committee at the International Maritime Organization, a UN agency...

A draft new fuel standard has been voted upon by IMO to help the shipping industry decarbonise; a further vote will be needed to bring the new rules into force. In our other article, we explain the background a bit more and how the vote played out. In this article we explain, in rough terms,...

Tariffs, trade tensions, and trade uncertainty have caused a trio of global economic bodies – the WTO, UNCTAD, and the IMF, to sound the economic alarm bells. Incidentally, bear in mind that the analysis presented below from the WTO, UNCTAD, and the IMF was all modelled prior to statements from the US that the Chinese...