REMINISCENCES | A rude awakening
My fascination with all things maritime was triggered in 1960 by our family’s journey from Southampton docks to Australia when I was eight years old....
My fascination with all things maritime was triggered in 1960 by our family’s journey from Southampton docks to Australia when I was eight years old....
A friend of mine, a pilot in Townsville, invited me to join him during an inbound pilotage of a car carrier back in the 1980s. The bridge is forward...
Retrieval work has begun with the first of 60 shipping containers lost from the container ship YM Efficiency successfully lifted from the seabed off...
No history of Australian shipping would be complete without mention of one of its most notorious and colourful species, the ships painters and dockers. Formally...
For most of the last century Australia was involved in war. In the two world wars alone, Australia committed over forty merchant ships as troop carriers,...
Hong Kong’s China Merchants Port Holdings (CMPort) has announced plans to expand its global footprint by acquiring a 50 per cent stake in Australia’s...
The government of the state of New South Wales in Australia has revealed the design of the new AU$12.7 million (US$9.6 million) Newcastle Cruise Terminal....
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