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229 Team Full Foarce – World’s Toughest Row 2024 Pacific

The race of a lifetime

Four adventurous women are preparing for the World’s Toughest Row 2024. They will row from Monterey, California, to Hawaii. That takes at least thirty-five days. Listen to my conversation with Cassidy Hurd and Elaina Loveless, how it all came about, how they prepare, and their goal. 

Mission:“To be a competitive, energetic, and uplifting team who forms lifelong friendships, embraces the journey and emerges as champions. We strive to ignite a passion in young women,...

https://shippingpodcast.com/229-team-full-foarce-worlds-toughest-row-2024-pacific/

Cummins methanol retrofit kit project wins U.K. funding

Cummins Inc. (NYSE: CMI) reports that its proposal to develop a methanol retrofit kit for its QSK60 engine has been awarded GBP 4.4 million (about $5.36 million) in total funding through the U.K. Government’s Zero Emission Vessels and Infrastructure (ZEVI) competition.

One of only 10 selected under the ZEVI competition, the project will see Cummins and its project partners — Ocean Infinity, the Aberdeen Harbor Board, and Proman AG — deploy deploy a U.K.-designed and built methanol retrofit kit...

https://www.marinelog.com/technology/cummins-methanol-retrofit-kit-project-wins-u-k-funding/

Scrapping EU liner exemption will backfire on shippers, analysts warn

The European legal regime that boosts competition in shipping, increases the frequency of liner shipping, increases the connectivity of port pairs and reduces freight rates will be allowed to die. […]

The post Scrapping EU liner exemption will backfire on shippers, analysts warn appeared first on Shi...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/scrapping-eu-liner-exemption-will-backfire-on-shippers-analysts-warn/

Shipping Australia agrees (mostly!) with the latest ACCC report, but the competition watchdog’s position on container hire fees is unreasonable

Pictured: a container terminal. Photo credit: Bellergy RC via Pixabay.

Shipping Australia welcomes most of the positions in the recent (12 December 2022) Container Stevedoring Monitoring Report from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

Australian container ports ought to have regulatory oversight
We largely agree with the ACCC’s position on Australia’s container ports – they have little to no regulatory oversight, and, given both their pivotal importance to Australia and the fact...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/shipping-australia-agrees-mostly-with-the-latest-accc-but-the-competition-watchdogs-position-on-container-hire-fees-is-unreasonable/

Port of Newcastle container terminal bill passes through both the lower and upper house

Pictured: the Port of Newcastle at Walsh Point on the Hunter River. Picture supplied by the Port of Newcastle.

A controversial Bill that could remove a financial penalty imposed on the Port of Newcastle, which prevents it from developing a container terminal, will now pass into law.

It’s been a fast-moving week in the NSW Parliament, with the “Port of Newcastle (Extinguishment of Liability) Bill 2022“, being substantially re-written by the NSW State Government, then passed in the Lower House...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/port-of-newcastle-container-bill-passes-lower-house/

Shipping Australia gives evidence to the Productivity Commission

Pictured: tugs pushing a box ship into berth at a container port. Photo credit: William William via Unsplash.

Shipping Australia gave evidence to the Productivity Commission’s inquiry into Australia’s Maritime Logistics systems last Friday.

Shipping Australia CEO, Capt. Melwyn Noronha, delivered an impassioned speech urging the Productivity Commission to change course on a variety of matters flagged in its draft report.

Specifically, at the hearing, we urged that there be regulation, governance...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/shipping-australia-gives-evidence-to-the-productivity-commission/

Industrial action and poor work practices disrupt supply chains – ACCC

Pictured: a man stares upwards at a container stack. Photo credit: Pat Whelen via Unsplash.

Ms Gina Cass-Gottlieb, the chair of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission, has warned that Australia’s waterfront work practices and quayside industrial action are disrupting supply chains. These are contributing to the relatively poor performance of Australian ports.

“Any solutions to these challenges should aim to minimise the adverse impact of restrictive work practices and industrial actions...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/industrial-action-and-poor-work-practices-disrupt-supply-chains-accc/

ACCC chair calls for regulation of box ports and port performance monitoring

Pictured: law books. The chair of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission has called for regulation of Australia’s container ports. Photo credit: Md Jawadur Rahman via Pexels.

Gina Cass-Gottlieb, the chair of the competition watchdog, has called for the regulation of container ports so as to boost competition. She also called for port performance monitoring.

She told delegates to the Ports Australia conference earlier this week that “proper regulation to compensate for a lack of...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/accc-chair-calls-for-regulation-of-box-ports-and-port-performance-monitoring/

Supply chain disruptions were caused by ports, COVID, governments, says ACCC Chair

Pictured: elements of the logistics supply chain. Photo credit: Gerd Altmann via Pixabay.

Gina Cass-Gottlieb, the chair of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission has pinpointed why the supply chain has been so disrupted these last few year. Ports, germs, governments, is the simple answer.

After first paying tribute the “invisible industry” of container shipping, which is a “clockwork-like system” that moves trillions of dollars’ worth of goods and drives the global economy, Ms...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/supply-chain-disruptions-were-caused-by-ports-covid-governments-says-accc-chair/

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