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Freo Today. 19 March 2024. Biblically, they were known as Whales, and what was inside them as Jonahs. This one however is called Silver Queen and what’s inside her are called vehicles. The vehicles roll on to her and then later roll off her. This ‘Vehicle Carrier’ – or RO-RO – arrived in Freo yesterday from Hitachinaka, Japan, and tomorrow will depart for Darwin. Here she is in Fremantle last evening surrounded by some of the Jonahs, oops, vehicles that rolled off her onto H Berth near the Old Traffic Bridge. Nice looking RO-RO, she was built in 2009 and sails under the flag of Panama. 🇵🇦. Smart pic by our Shipping Correspondent, Jean Hudson.

The Old Traffic Bridge – The Latest in Architecture + Urban Design
Have you been wondering lately, as you drive over or under the Old Traffic Bridge, or pedal or walk across…
Opening Saturday – the extraordinary James Cameron’s CHALLENGING THE DEEP in Our Environment
This Saturday, 23 March 2024, the WA Maritime Museum opens its doors to JAMES CAMERON – CHALLENGING THE DEEP, an…
Breaking the Ice in Shipping News
Icebreakers are common visitors to Fremantle. In recent months we have had Icebreakers from both China and Japan in port.…

South Mole Closure – Letter to the Editor

To the Editor, Thanks for such a great article. As a former Victorian who loves WA, and has retired and moved here permanently, I'm totally disgusted with what has happened at South Mole. There are people out there who think they can do what ever they want. Including the vandalism of South Mole. All the authorities had to do was look at South Beach. Nothing was done till it was out of hand. My fear is that it will spread to North Mole, and it will be closed off to the public. And I'm starting to see it happen when…
Rave party the last straw – Freo Ports closes South Mole to campers in Life, Law & Culture
Yesterday morning Fremantle Ports closed South Mole following damage and graffiti, and a rave party there on Friday night that…
Shimmy Back in Time with Innisfail’s Art Deco Treasures in Life, Law & Culture
As we patiently watched Far North Queensland’s latest tropical low slowly intensify into a cyclone, we decided to squeeze in…
After The Game v Brisbane R1 2024 – With Snaps Truly in Life, Law & Culture
G’day friends, Can’t believe it was twenty-nine years ago, I took my young family to the MCG to watch Freo…
The Battle for Leighton & Port – Deja vu all over again in Architecture + Urban Design
Back to the future at Fremantle Surf Club Wednesday night when eco-warriors from Save Leighton 1999 suited up again for…
Dasein opens soon at OCH – Don’t miss it! in Life, Law & Culture
Local Walyalup/Fremantle artist Mandy Hawkhead has just announced her forthcoming art exhibition, Dasein. Mandy explains that this body of work…
View from the Round House with Martin Drum – Dunkley and Collie in Life, Law & Culture
Welcome back to our politics podcast, View From The Round House With Martin Drum. In this podcast, the Shipping News’…

The Amazing 2024 Sculpture by the Sea

Thousands, including your reporter, flocked to Cottesloe Beach last Sunday afternoon for sand, sun and sculptures. Families picnicked in the shade and posed for photos at the sculptures on the grassy slopes, and on the beach and groyne. Others swam and sunbaked. Kids made their own sand sculptures. In the distance, towards Fremantle, NYK Aphrodite, a huge vehicle carrier or RO-RO, dominated the skyline. The amazing ships that visit our port everyday create their own type of figurative marine and maritime art with their different shapes and colours, not to mention their names! If you’re wondering,…
Fox Watch in Life, Law & Culture
As regular readers of the Shipping News know, Leighton Beach is synonymous with Fox! John McGlue’s article Fox on the…
Handel, Bach & Mahler come to St Pat’s in Life, Law & Culture
On 24 March, in St Patrick’s Basilica, Adelaide Street, Fremantle, starting at 2.30 pm, Fremantle Chamber Orchestra, conducted by the…
Pardon Me for Rabbiting On in Life, Law & Culture
Shipees, we have an adorable fluffy plague on our hands. As we speak, there are an estimated 200 million rabbits…

Bahijah sails – for Haifa!

The long running on-off, will she or won’t she, saga surrounding the Fremantle arrivals and departures of the livestock carrier MV Bahijah is at an end. As we reported Friday, it appeared the Bahijah was ready to depart Fremantle Saturday night. As it transpires, the Federal Department of Agriculture announced Friday that they had cleared Bahijah to sail, but not via the Red Sea, to Israel. Here’s the Ag media statement issued Friday - The department has approved a notice of intention…