Archive for month: September, 2025
The Global State of the Cruise Industry
4 September 2025
With New Zealand as a ‘cautionary tale’ and Western Australia on the up and up The 2025 Australian Cruise Association…
What’s the Story?
4 September 2025
So, just what is the Totally Lit story? The idea for Totally Lit sprang from one of those light-bulb moments.…
NUCLEAR LANDSCAPES – Opening Soon
4 September 2025
Brett Leigh Dicks is a wonderful photographer, world class. Produces amazing stuff. And now his NUCLEAR LANDSCAPES exhibition opens next week, 12 September,…
The Scenic Eclipse II Gallery
3 September 2025
Scenic Eclipse II departed Freo this evening, following her maiden voyage to Fremantle. And many of the guests aboard her…
Seeing Red: How to fight war and fascism in Australia
3 September 2025
SEEING RED is an irregular column on Fremantle Shipping News by Barry Healy*. In this piece, Barry addresses the question how…
My Favourite Freo Street – Jenkin Street
3 September 2025
In this popular Fremantle Shipping News feature – My Favourite Freo Street – we ask a range of Freo folk to nominate their…
Scenic Eclipse II Wows Freo!
3 September 2025
Scenic Eclipse II, a vessel that’s less cruise ship and more floating sanctuary of ultra-luxury and exploration, arrived in Fremantle…
The Wednesday Poem
3 September 2025
Fremantle Shipping News is pleased to bring you The Wednesday Poem. In this feature we post poems by Freo and Freo-connected…
Clipper, Baptism of Fire
2 September 2025
And they are off. Ten Clippers crossed the start line Sunday, 31 August in Portsmouth, UK, for Stage 1 of…
Imagine if … Not the first flag but the second
1 September 2025
Right now, as we in Fremantle begin preparing ourselves for the Freo Dockers AFL Elimination Final this Saturday night, China…









