India’s largest private ports and logistics company, Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ), has acquired the North Queensland Export Terminal (NQXT) in Australia in a non-cash deal worth about $2.54bn. The transaction involves the purchase of Abbot Point Port Holdings (APPH), a...
https://splash247.com/adani-ports-strikes-2-5bn-deal-for-australian-coal-terminal/
By Paul-Alain Hunt Apr 19, 2025 (Bloomberg) –Australia’s opposition, the Liberal-National Coalition, pledged to repeal a ban on live sheep exports to overseas markets if it takes power in the upcoming…
https://gcaptain.com/australian-opposition-pledges-to-reinstate-live-sheep-exports/
CMB.TECH, the shipowning vehicle controlled by the Saverys family, has signed an agreement with Australian miner Fortescue to charter an ammonia-powered vessel ordered in China. The 210,000-dwt ammonia-powered newcastlemax will feature a dual fuel engine and is expected to be delivered by the end...
https://splash247.com/fortescue-signs-up-for-cmb-tech-ammonia-powered-newcastlemax/
The sale of nuclear-powered submarines to Australia under the AUKUS treaty faces new doubts as U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs take hold, and amid concern in Washington that providing the subs to Canberra may reduce deterrence to China.
https://gcaptain.com/aukus-nuclear-submarine-sale-under-scrutiny-as-trump-tariffs-rattle-australia/
Norwegian offshore vessel owner DOF has won a contract award for subsea mooring installation services in the Asia-Pacific region. The contract will utilise the 2010-built construction support vessel (CSV) Skandi Hercules with related moorings and installation subsea services. The scope of work...
https://splash247.com/dof-secures-csv-work-offshore-australia/
Australia plans to scrap a Chinese company’s lease on Darwin port. The port concession in the far north of the country has become an election issue with both the government and the opposition vowing to buy back the port from its 99-year lease to Landbridge, a $370m deal that was signed 10 years...
https://splash247.com/chinese-operator-of-darwin-port-faces-the-boot/
Australia’s remote, uninhabited islands in the Antarctic and a tiny territory with barely any exports found themselves caught up alongside global heavyweights in U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff regime, leaving locals and officials baffled.
Houston-based oilfield service giant SLB has been awarded a contract by the Australian oil and gas company Woodside Energy for drilling on its ultra-deepwater Trion development project offshore Mexico. SLB will oversee the delivery of 18 ultra-deepwater wells using an integrated services approach...
https://splash247.com/woodside-picks-slb-for-drilling-services-on-trion-project-off-mexico/
The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), monitoring a Chinese navy warship as it circumnavigated Australia last month, heard it warn it would use live fire in its exercises on a civilian radio broadcast, defense pilots said on Tuesday.
https://gcaptain.com/australia-air-force-pilots-also-heard-chinese-navy-live-fire-warning-on-radio/
By Bloomberg News Mar 26, 2025 (Bloomberg) –President Xi Jinping is making China’s presence more felt across the Indo-Pacific region by testing US allies on sensitive issues, as Donald Trump’s attention…
https://gcaptain.com/xi-tests-us-allies-in-indo-pacific-as-trump-focuses-elsewhere/