Jim Wilson

FONASBA – the Federation of National Associations of Ship Brokers and Agents – has announced that that registration and hotel bookings are now open for the FONASBA 2024 Annual Meeting, which will be held in Athens, Greece. The plenary section of the meeting runs from Wednesday, 16th October to Friday, 18th October, preceded by the Executive Committee...

Global marine environmental problems will be at the top of the agenda for the governors of the world shipping industry, who are meeting at the International Maritime Organization’s Marine Environment Protection Committee (Meeting No. 82) in late September / early October. Top of the agenda – as ever in the current environment – is tackling...

Tickets are now on-sale for the SAL NSW Christmas Luncheon 2024! Proudly sponsored by OneStop, Poseidon Sea Pilots, and Linx, the Guest of Honour is Senator the Hon Bridget McKenzie! Senator McKenzie is the Nationals Senator for Victoria, the Leader of the Nationals in the Senate, and the Shadow Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional...

Discussion and review of a range of topics and work on ballast water management will be carried out at the world’s top marine environment review body, which meets in London in late September / early October. Delegates to the Marine Environment Protection Committee (Meeting No. 82), a committee of the International Maritime Organization, will focus...

Global container shipping majors Ocean Network Express, HMM, and Yang Ming Marine Transportation, will continue to cooperate under the new alliance name “Premier Alliance”, effective for five years from February 2025. The cooperation is comprised of mainline services across the major East – West Tradelines: Asia – North America West Coast, Asia – North America...

A “sustained improvement,” has been reported in the global marine cargo insurance market, according to Mike Brews, chair of the International Union of Marine Insurance. Speaking at the IUMI’s international conference earlier this week, Mr Brews commented that, “in general, the cargo market is healthy and in a good place… we appear to be in...

Get your nominations in for the DCN AWARDS! Nominations close in two weeks, so don’t put it off any longer, don’t delay, ACT TODAY! The closing date for submissions is 5pm AEST Wednesday, 2 October 2024, so get your nominations in now! Entries can be submitted via the DCN Awards website! BOOK YOUR TICKETS! Tickets...

Save the date! Shipping Australia will be hosting its very special Victorian Luncheon at the RACV Club in Melbourne CBD on 22nd November between 12:30 and 3pm! Details to be published in due course.

Australia, the UK and the United States have agreed to a three-way co-operation to address risk to critical supply chains. The agreement sets up the Australia-United Kingdom-United States Supply Chain Resilience Cooperation Group which will co-operate on data sharing and joint action to build resilience in priority supply chains. “Strengthening critical supply chains is vital...

Government support for a container terminal at Port Kembla should be dropped, an interim policy reform paper on freight movements in NSW has suggested. The reform paper, released in the last few days by state government agency Transport for NSW, notes that the current and near future for trade at Newcastle and Kembla is somewhat...