News


Close Encounter of the MUA kind

10 Feb, 2026
THE MARITIME Union of Australia is maintaining its campaign against Carnival Cruise Lines in...

WiseTech gets SMART with major shipping line

10 Feb, 2026
WISETECH Global has launched a pilot with Hapag-Lloyd to trial ingesting and using location data...

January air cargoes soar, but China’s e-commerce exports return to Earth with a thud

10 Feb, 2026
AN EARLIER Lunar New Year has been labelled a factor in strong demand for global air cargo during...

Hapag-Lloyd stays in black in 2025, including Q4

10 Feb, 2026
HAPAG-Lloyd has reported preliminary figures showing its 2025 results were at the top of...

Bhagwan expands again with Brisbane buy

10 Feb, 2026
CENTURY-old Brisbane company Riverside Marine has been acquired by the expanding, WA-based Bhagwan...

Industry gathering discusses rail and truck movements

10 Feb, 2026
WEST Gate tunnel operations, the vehicle booking system at West Swanson and the Port Rail Shuttle...

CBH looks from record harvest towards exports

10 Feb, 2026
WA GRAIN cooperative CBH is working to turn a record grain harvest into record exports through the...

Flinders reaches out with new crane order

9 Feb, 2026
FLINDERS Adelaide Container Terminal is to take delivery of an Australian first, a cantilever...

Floating pier on epic trek

9 Feb, 2026
A 100-METRE floating pier is on its way to Antarctica as it nears the end of a very length tow from...

Features


AIR CARGO: Policy keeping it fresh from paddock to plate

15 Jan, 2026
With the free trade agreement between Australia and the United Arab Emirates underway, Daily Cargo...

PORT & CONTAINER EQUIPMENT: Driving port productivity

17 Nov, 2025
A look at what is happening at our ports, both with cyber technology and hard machinery. CHANGE is...

RO-RO: Green seas ahead for Australia's Ro-Ro sector

27 Oct, 2025
With Australia’s population still growing, the roll on/roll off shipping sector is expanding to...

NORTHERN AUSTRALIA: The land of plenty of time and wait a while

12 Oct, 2025
With the focus of global economic power shifting increasingly to the Asia-Pacific, opportunities...

The Beacon


How Hamburg is devising a model for combining housing and harbour

WHEN the 6000 future residents of Hamburg’s Grasbrook residential development look out of their...

What happened the last time freight left Glebe Island

23 Oct, 2025
WAITING at Sydney Airport for a Monday morning flight to Canberra, Peter Sturrock picked up a copy...

Glebe Island: The plan to save Sydney’s last working port

13 Oct, 2025
THE BEACON is DCN’s new series of articles that take a closer look at key topics and themes for...

Industry Opinions & Insights


OPINION: Australian ports don't deserve relegation

I RECENTLY received Shipping Australia’s (SAL) latest newsletter Signal which has no less than nine...

EMERGING TECHNOLOGY: Wake of transformation

2 Feb, 2026
Exploring how Oceania's maritime industry is harnessing advanced technology across its waterways...

OCEAN OUTLOOK: Lighting a pathway forward

1 Feb, 2026
Heritage lighthouses still help us navigate the future for shipping and ports AS WE navigate the...

OPINION: BBNJ and sharing the benefits from marine resources

THE BIODIVERSITY Beyond National Jurisdiction Agreement (BBNJ) that came into effect this month is...

Partner News


Australia’s newest and largest intermodal terminal commences rail freight operations

18 Dec, 2025
In a significant development for both Victorian and national supply chains, the newest and largest...

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