Jim Wilson

It was a super-packed luxury dining room at the Dockside last Friday (06 December 2024) for Shipping Australia’s 2024 Christmas Luncheon! We were honoured and privileged that our guest speaker this year was Senator the Hon Bridget McKenzie, who gave an important and insightful policy speech to our guests. Thank you Senator. Shipping Australia CEO,...

Shipping Australia would like to wish all of our members, stakeholders, and friends, a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Please note that we will be closing our doors at noon on Friday 20th December 2024 and we will return to the office on Monday 06 January 2024. We will continue to monitor...

Higher fuel prices cause ship owners to build more energy efficient vessels, new statistical analysis from independent research consultancy CE Delft shows. Writing in “Impact of fuel prices on energy efficiency of maritime ships,” CE Delft gives the example that, where all other factors are kept equal, a one percent increase in fuel prices leads...

Ports Victoria has announced it has appointed Captain Mike Dunn from the United Kingdom (UK) as the new Harbour Master for the port of Melbourne. Captain Dunn comes to the role after 12 years as harbour master of some of the major ports in the UK. Announcing the appointment, Ports Victoria CEO Craig Walker said...

Euronext-listed Höegh Autoliners (ticker code: HAUTO; see also “Share information“) has signed a five year contract with a “a major international car producer for transport of significant volumes of cars in two of the Company’s core trade lanes,” the company said in an 06 December 2024 statement. Andreas Enger CEO of Höegh Autoliners commented: “The...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s 2012 package of shipping laws, introduced when he was the Transport Minister in the Gillard administration, have “actually been a massive fail,” Senator the Hon Bridget McKenzie, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development, told Shipping Australia’s NSW Luncheon Guests late last week. Noting the newspaper articles that have been...

Senator Bridget McKenzie, the Nationals Senator for Victoria who is the Shadow Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development, declared at this year’s Shipping Australia Christmas Luncheon that the Federal Government should have intervened in last year’s waterfront related strikes. She also vowed that the Coalition will not make the task of the maritime and...

Shipping Australia was privileged and honoured last Friday, at our annual NSW Christmas Luncheon, to receive an address from Senator the Hon Bridget McKenzie, who is the Shadow Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development, and who is also the Nationals Senator for Victoria. Senator McKenzie gave the following speech to our guests: Good afternoon...

Imagine it is in the evening, and you are peacefully sailing your tanker, which is carrying a cargo of naptha – a burnable, liquid hydrocarbon mix. Suddenly, there’s an enormous bang to starboard,  and a shock wave of force shudders throughout your vessel. Your ship has been hit by an anti-ship missile. The sirens blare...

Swire Group has donated A$25.9 million to support cervical cancer screening and treatment for over 130,000 women in seven pacific countries. In what has been described as the “largest single philanthropic donation in its history,” UNSW Sydney has received the funds that will enable its Kirby Institute to work with partners in Fiji, Kiribati, the...