Jim Wilson

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...

New restrictions on a variety of ship-sourced airborne pollutants have been mandated by the International Maritime Organization. Entering into force on 01 March 2025, new emission control areas  for nitrogen oxides (NOx), sulphur oxides (SOx), and particulate matter (PM), will be established in Canadian Arctic Waters and the Norwegian Sea. The Norwegian Sea is approximately...

Ballast water management systems generally perform well, a major international study has found, with kill rates in the order of 93% to 95%. While 11% of systems may fail at installation, the sources of failures can be corrected, the study found, as the failures were largely due to contamination from uncleaned tanks or non-treated ballast...

Electrification: it is (or was) an unlikely contender to help the shipping industry decarbonize but it seems to be developing as a viable solution for niche areas. Wilhelmsen Ships Services and Yinson GreenTech, the green tech subsidiary of Malaysian energy company Yinson, have agreed to build charging infrastructure for the “Hydromover”, which is Singapore’s first...

Tokyo Stock Exchange -listed shipping major NYK Line (JPX TYO: NYK) has announced several green shipping initiatives. New fuel test engine NYK has started operations on a test engine facility in Chiba Prefecture (to the east of Tokyo) to evaluate the safety of new marine fuels. The facility will help test and analyse new marine...

Major towage provider, Engage Marine, has announced that has continued its partnerships with the Karratha and Carnarvon Clontarf Academies, part of the Clontarf Foundation, a nationwide initiative that supports young Indigenous men through education, sport, and employment opportunities. Engage Marine regularly hosts groups of Clontarf boys and young men at its Dampier operations and on...

Chinese shipping major Orient Overseas Container Lines has done a deal with Seaspan to charter six new containership, each with a capacity of 13,000 TEU. With a price tag of 11.2 billion Chinese Renminbi (USD$1.57 billion; AUD$2.39 billion), delivery of the vessels is due from the fourth quarter of 2026 to the first quarter of...