Shipping
Traffic jam at Panama Canal as drought lowers water level
Authorities of the Panama Canal expect income from the waterway to drop after they were forced to limit the number of ships passing through it.
- by Elida Moreno
Latest
Freighter ship loaded with cars burns off Dutch coast
Smoke billowing from the Fremantle Highway eased enough to allow tugboats to move in, Dutch authorities said.
Trade winds: Shipping is turning back to sails after a century
The world is locked in debate over the cost of cutting maritime emissions. A few key players are quietly showing how an ancient technology can do it for free.
- by Nick O'Malley
Garden Island ‘best site’ for cruise terminal after Yarra Bay scuttled
A decision to rule out constructing a cruise-ship terminal at Yarra Bay puts the naval base at Garden Island back on the agenda as a potential site.
- by Matt O'Sullivan
You don’t need to travel the world in a maritime career
There are plenty of maritime jobs that involve going home at the end of the day.
- by Sue White
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Portland
Long saga of abandoned ship’s skeleton crew finally ends
After being abandoned at sea for six months, with just a single pleasure each day, the remaining seafarers will finally leave Portland Bay and return to their families in the Philippines.
- by Tony Wright
Opinion
Russia-Ukraine war
What guns, ships and chips say about the global economy
Shortages in shipping containers and artillery shells tell us something disturbing about modern economies: They aren’t nearly as flexible as people had thought.
- by Paul Krugman
‘There was an almighty noise’: New Manly ferry suffers catastrophic engine failure
The Clontarf ferry will be out of service for weeks because the engine will now have to be replaced after the incident on Sydney Harbour.
- by Matt O'Sullivan
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Japan
Cargo ship carrying 22 crew sinks off Japan, two rescued crew members die
Two crew members from 14 rescued from a cargo ship that sank of southwestern Japan early on Wednesday have died, the coast guard said.
- by Kim Tong-Hyung and Mari Yamaguchi
Unpaid seafarers rescued after months stuck on abandoned cattle ship
When the 19 Filipino workers were taken off the ship, stranded in Victoria’s Portland Bay, they didn’t even have enough money between them for a coffee.
- by Tony Wright
