March 26th, 20200The Australian Maritime Safety Authority has entered into a contract with local marine services company Subsea to conduct an additional search for the 16 remaining containers which fell from Yang Ming Marine Transport’s 4,250 teu containership . YM Efficiency lost 81 containers overboard into Australian waters off the Newcastle-Port...
March 23rd, 20200Maritime Safety Queensland has announced that the Australian port of Brisbane will ease 14-day restrictions on foreign ships coming from overseas ports under a new "two port" policy which will take effect from March 23. Under the new policy, nearly all vessels arriving at Port of Brisbane will now be able to berth and unload cargo...
March 18th, 20201Lobby group Shipping Australia has hit out at the decision by authorities to demand that vessels cannot enter local waters until 14 days have passed since they left an overseas port. The measure had originally been put in place a month ago for ships leaving China, but as the coronavirus has spread around the world Queensland has...
March 5th, 20200Melbourne-based startup Scope 3 is at the forefront of the transport carbon footprint debate, developing solutions to help companies measure, model and optimise transport from a greenhouse gas (GHG) perspective. Michael Blake, the company’s CEO, says Scope 3 was born out of the “growing acceptance” that change is required in the...
February 25th, 20200Norway’s Equinor has announced that it will discontinue its exploration drilling plan at Stromlo-1 in the Ceduna sub-basin, offshore South Australia in the Great Australian Bight. Drilling in the Bight has been a hugely controversial issue in Australia, and has seen the withdrawal of BP, Chevron and Karoon Gas in recent...
February 10th, 20200Taiwanese shipping line Yang Ming Marine Transport's 4,250 teu containership was arrested at Port Botany in Australia on Sunday at the request of Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA). AMSA claimed that Yang Ming had refused to pay up to AUD$20m ($13.4m) of clean-up costs after its containership YM Efficiency lost 81 containers...
February 5th, 20200An Australian-first initiative to provide a wifi signal and internet access for visiting seafarers on ships visiting Australian ports called Seafarer Connect has been launched in Sydney at a meeting of the International Transport Workers' Federation. An initiative of the not-for-profit Tas Bull Seafarers Foundation (TBSF), a trial of...
February 4th, 20200Australian offshore engineering company Worley has announced the appointment of Chris Ashton as its new chief executive officer and managing director effective February 24. Ashton joined Worley in 1998 and steps up from the position of COO. He replaces Andrew Wood, who is retiring after seven years in the role and 26 years with...
February 3rd, 20200Australian transport and logistics company Toll Group has had to shut down a number of systems in response to a suspected cyber security attack. The company said it is investigating the cause of the incident. "We expect several Toll customer-facing applications to be impacted as a result. Our immediate priority is to resume...
January 29th, 20200Houston-headquartered Halliburton Company has been awarded seven contracts for drilling and completion services for the next phase of field development at the INPEX-operated Ichthys Project, located in the Browse Basin offshore northern Australia. The campaign is due to start in March 2020 and have an estimated duration of three...
