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    • New Director joins ICHCA Australia.

    • MCC Group joins ICHCA Australia .

    • Stage two of NSW Ports’ rail investment announced.

    • Specialised vessel to tackle Australian offshore platform removals.

    • Shanghai passes 50 million TEU mark.

    • International trade predictions for 2025 .

    • PHMSA Issues new lithium battery transport guide.

    • Transport and logistics industry scholarships.

    • Port of Newcastle handles first car carrier.

    • DP World reaches 100 million TEU capacity mark

    January 2025 Issue

    • Ligentia joins ICHCA Australia as a member.

    • Winners of Innovation in Safety Award announced .

    • Car carrier abandoned in the English Channel.

    • The importance of a correct container weight declaration.

    • Changes to Marine Order 504 and Safety Management System updates .

    • Steering gear failure on the Yarra River.

    • Ports Australia calls for action on cyber threats.

    • Auriga Group appoints new managing director.

    • Transhipment vessel coming to Western Australia .

    • Nuclear-powered vessels on the horizon.

    February 2025 Issue

    • ICHCA SA luncheon

    • ICHCA Australia AGM

    • AMSA warning about container packing

    • Containers overboard

    • Common errors in trading transactions and how to avoid them

    • More containers overboard.

    • New board appointments for ARTC and National Intermodal

    • ACCC raises concern over Silk acquisition by DP World

    • Stevedores deaths

    • New TT line CEO

    • Global ports sale to have consequences

    • Updates from the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

    • ICHCA Contacts

    March 2025 Issue

    • Changes at the ICHCA Australia board.

    • ICHCA SA luncheon.

    • The TT club Innovation in Safety Award .

    • 2024 not off to a good start for shippers.

    • New CEO at Ports Victoria.

    • AMSA bans LNG carrier.

    • PAMA and PBLIS review final report released .

    • Women in Transport and Logistics scholarships.

    • PN wants national safety standards for level crossings.

    • Maersk and Hapag Lloyd join forces.

    • IMO Ship Design and Construction Sub-Committee meeting.

    • BlackRock takes over GIP .

    • New CEOs at Inland Rail and ARTC.

    January 2024 Issue

    • ICHCA SA luncheon.

    • The TT club Innovation Safety Award .

    • TT Club Global Risk Assessment Director Laurence Jones to retire.

    • ICHCA International welcomes new member RightShip.

    • ICHCA Australia welcomes new member OMC International.

    • Study on container safety on ships.

    • Moorebank Interstate Terminal receives its first train.

    • Margaret Saib appointed as new chair of ALC.

    • Kalmar set to go its own way .

    • AMSA bans bulk carrier.

    • Svitzer to go it alone

    February 2024 Issue

    • ICHCA SA luncheon.

    • Kalmar to supply electric equipment to ITC.

    • Rail level crossing roundtable .

    • Container vessel destroys not one but three STS cranes.

    • Recent articles on lithium batteries safety .

    • Are sail-assisted ships just a lot of hot air? .

    • Flinders Ports recognised for outstanding business performance .

    • Vale Cecilia Eckelmann Basttistello.

    • Containership destroys Baltimore bridge.

    March 2024 Issue

    • ICHCA Australia AGM .

    • New director joins ICHCA Australia.

    • PEMA celebrates 20-year anniversary .

    • Shipmaster convicted over pilot ladder failure.

    • NQBP infrastructure upgrade.

    • Port of Newcastle welcomes IPART ruling .

    • Transport for NSW is seeking feedback .

    • Moorebank officially open for interstate trains.

    • General Average declared in Baltimore incident.

    • AMSA is clamping down on VGMs.

    • Crane collapse in Korea.

    • Port of Brisbane seeks feedback on its future .

    • Former Port of Auckland CEO on trial.

    April 2024 Issue

    • ICHCA Australia AGM .

    • Melbourne car terminal sold to AAT.

    • Allianz report warns of challenges in shipping.

    • AMSA bans another vessel.

    • Paul Scurrah to resign from PN.

    • MinRes delivers first transhipments.

    • Development at Beveridge to commence and WIFT put on hold .

    • Nicaragua canal shelved.

    • Port of Newcastle reimburses NSW Treasury .

    • Northern Sea Route to be used by container ships.

    • Container ship Dali refloated .

    • Sheep export trade to end in 2028 .

    • DP World launches rail service at Yennora IMT

    May 2024 Issue

    • ICHCA Australia appoints new director.

    • Aurizon to build zero-emissions locomotive.

    • AMSA bans two vessels.

    • Qube Logistics trials double stacking .

    • Women & Leadership offers scholarships .

    • NSW Ports releases 40-year Master Plan.

    • PhD scholarship opportunity on port performance.

    • STS summit held in Melbourne .

    • Freight rates unsustainable.

    June 2024 Issue

    • ICHCA VIC event.

    • ICHCA SA luncheon.

    • Megatrans 2024 .

    • TT Club Innovation in Safety Award to open soon.

    • Freightquip joins ICHCA Australia .

    • Rise in enclosed spaces incidents.

    • MSC declared it will not use the Northern Sea Route .

    • AAT to replace 40-year-old ship to shore crane .

    • New transhipping service to be set up.

    • Another BBC vessel detained.

    • Container fire on Maersk vessel on its maiden voyage .

    • Arctic summer shipping season begins.

    • New CEO for the Port of Hastings.

    • Shipyard crane collapses during violent storm

    July 2024 Issue

    • ICHCA VIC event.

    • Megatrans 2024 .

    • ICHCA QLD Logistics Long Lunch .

    • Top one hundred container ports in 2023 by Lloyds List.

    • Club Innovation in Safety Award to open soon.

    • Hydrogen demand will require hundreds of additional ships .

    • Explosion in the Port of Ningbo .

    • Fire quickly extinguished on board vessel at JCT Colombo.

    • More containers lost off the South African coast.

    • ICS urges governments to ‘bite the bullet’ to meet 2050 net zero targets.

    • New CEO at AMSA.

    • Port of Mackay marks birthday with improved trade throughput .

    • What is the dark fleet?

    • Port of Brisbane COO to retire.

    August 2024 Issue

    • ICHCA SA event.

    • Megatrans 2024 .

    • ICHCA QLD Logistics Long Lunch – 15 November.

    • TT Club Innovation in Safety Award.

    • Another container loss off the coast of South Africa .

    • STS Leeuwin II severely damaged .

    • Seeking strategic fleet vessels .

    • Ports Australia publishes State of Trade report .

    • Supply chains at risk without seafarer reforms.

    • Crane collapse in Yantian.

    • CEFC to assist in electrifying Flinders Ports .

    • AMSA executive to head IMO sub-committee.

    • AMSA CEO to retire

    September 2024 Issue

    • The ICHCA Logistics Long Lunch in Brisbane 15 November.

    • TT Club Innovation in Safety Award.

    • Japanese study tour visits Australian ports.

    • Response to maritime lithium battery fires discussed .

    • Minimising fraud and disruption in global supply chains.

    • Crane incident in Keelung Port .

    • IMO making progress on reducing GHG .

    • Crucial advice on the safe transport of charcoal published .

    • China tightens its regulations on hazardous goods.

    • RightShip adjusts inspection regime.

    • New Commissioner at Australian Border Force .

    • FLIP ship escapes wreckers.

    • MIRRAT takeover in doubt..

    October 2024 Issue

    • The ICHCA Logistics Long Lunch.

    • CHCA board meeting and farewell to Laurence Jones.

    • rump 2.0 – The potential impacts on Australian supply chains.

    • New CEO at Pacific National.

    • DP World to acquire Silk Logistics.

    • NHVR calls for submissions for heavy vehicle safety grant program.

    • New appointments at Shipping Australia .

    • Fatality statistics paint a grim picture.

    • Crane ship in trouble again .

    • AMSA to ban vessel for 180 days.

    • NHVR CEO to retire .

    November 2024 Issue

    • TT Club Innovation in Safety Award event in London, UK.

    • AI and the shipping industry – benefits and challenges.

    • IMO award for Exceptional Bravery at Sea.

    • Regulation of seafarers’ work/rest hours are being broken.

    • Rightship to revise inspection schedule .

    • New Harbour Master for Ports Victoria.

    • Another crane ship in trouble.

    December 2024 Issue