This week, Port of Melbourne continued working through its proposed capacity enhancement program, which has objectives to enable the development of a new container terminal and to secure the future of Tasmanian trades.
In other news, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority dispatched an aircraft and diverted a bulk carrier to rescue a kayaker in the Indian Ocean.
And there were several stories of police and border authorities intercepting drug consignments being smuggled into Australia, including the largest shipment of the deadly opioid fentanyl in Melbourne.
The DCN Weekly is a new podcast from Daily Cargo News providing a regular roundup of the biggest stories in Australian shipping and maritime logistics.
New episodes are published to our website at the end of each week and included in each Monday’s newswire.
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