Break bulk shipping to / from Australia is facing a very rough Christmas and New Year after the CFMEU handed out notice of two weeks’ worth of industrial action at Port Kembla (20 December to 3rd January), Fremantle (23 December to 30 December) and Melbourne (23 December to 3rd January). It’s pretty extensive stuff, the...

Thomas Kazakos has been appointed as the new Secretary General of the International Chamber of Shipping. Mr Kazakos has been the Director General of the Cyprus Shipping Chamber, the representative National Member Association of Cyprus at ICS, since 1995. He studied at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom obtaining a Bachelor’s Degree in...