After 10 months of the COVID-19 crisis and plenty of uncertainty over the management of maritime workers and seafarers, medical care, seafarer crew changes and access to medical care, real consultation started yesterday. NSW public health … [Read more...]
Inability to move boxes is the major reason for global container shortage
Maritime analysts at internationally respected consultancy, Drewry, have shown that the global shortage of container equipment is caused by difficulties in empty container repositioning. The global ocean-borne container equipment fleet is expected … [Read more...]
Deliver seafarers home for Christmas
Santa Claus, or, if you prefer, Father Christmas, is a much-known character beloved by kids the world over for bringing them wonderful presents. Santa, of course, ain't real (sorry kids!). The people who really do bring you wonderful presents … [Read more...]
AMTAC address: COVID-19 and shipping
SAL CEO Rod Nairn gave the 2020 annual address of the Australian Maritime and Transport Arbitration Commission (AMTAC), a specialist commission of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration. He spoke on the topic, "Charting … [Read more...]
Demand proves strong for Australian citrus industry
Nathan Hancock, chief executive officer at industry association Citrus Australia, explains how COVID-19 has affected the citrus-growing and exporting industry in Australia. COVID-19 has proved disruptive to the Australian citrus industry … [Read more...]