The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has released its Inspections Annual Report, highlighting a significant increase in maritime safety regulatory activity. The Inspections Annual Report covers AMSA’s inspection activities on domestic commercial vessels (DCVs) such as fishing boats and ferries, as well as regulated Australian vessels and foreign-flagged shipping vessels under port state control. Domestically, […]
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The Australian government’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) have initiated a bilateral program designed to assist the Australian and Singaporean maritime and port sectors in significantly reducing their carbon emissions. The Australia-Singapore Initiative on Low-Emissions Technologies for Maritime and Port Operations (ASLET) will support […]
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The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has completed a major $1.2 million refurbishment of the remote Newman Reef aid to navigation (AtoN), located north-east of Thursday Island (Waiben) in the Torres Strait. The extensive project, which commenced in November 2023, included crucial updates...
Fremantle Ports plans to commence maintenance dredging of the Inner Harbour within this week to remove sediments that have accumulated since capital dredging was undertaken in 2010. A total dredge volume of 80,000 cubic metres will be removed over five years, with 60,000 cubic metres of sediments...
The California State Polytechnic University at Humboldt (Cal Poly Humboldt) has placed an order for a new research vessel for use by its marine sciences program. The vessel will be a semi-displacement aluminium catamaran developed by Teknicraft Design of Auckland, New Zealand. The vessel will be...
The vulnerability of Australia’s trade routes to military coercion was highlighted by both last year’s Defence Strategic Update and by government commentary on the rationale for AUKUS. In his critique of ASPI’s new report, The trade routes vital to Australia’s economic security, Richard Dunley...
Harold Macmillan was supposedly once asked what the most troubling problem of his time as British Prime Minister was. “Events, my dear boy, events,” was his reply. I thought I had this week’s column nailed well in advance, but offshore is an industry especially susceptible to unexpected and hard to predict “events”. So, we must […]
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“Nuclear energy is an extraordinary asset whose full potential we need to untap if we are to keep climate change in check.” – Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency About 20 years ago, a seat-warming senator came out of hiding and declared his thought...
Western Australia port operator Fremantle Ports has confirmed the sad news of the sudden passing of Michael Parker, its Chief Executive Officer, on Wednesday, April 3. Parker, aged 52, was appointed CEO of Fremantle Ports in May 2021 after a long career with Alcoa, which culminated in him assuming...
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The Australiam government’s Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (CDPP), on behalf of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA), has successfully prosecuted a ship’s master and a shipping company following a serious accident involving a ship’s pilot on May 25, 2023. On the said date, a pilot attempting to embark the Panama-flagged general cargo ship Boshi […]
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