Shipping News
Fremantle Ports today announced Michael Parker as its new Chief Executive Officer. Mr Parker was formerly Business Unit President and…
Customs and Excise had always been a male domain. Except for the typing pool that is. In the 60s, there…
As well as being a Customs BO - a Boarding Officer - sometimes I was a wharf EO - a…
Apart from that headline being a terrible tongue twister, what a good, innovative idea the shared shipping container is! Tigers…
Yesterday, 14 April 2021, just about everyone welcomed the safe return of fire-damaged MPV Everest to Australia. She entered Fremantle’s…
It’s coming up a year ago, 20 April 2020, when the much vilified Artania left Fremantle Port. When she left,…
The recent excellent report on Port Hedland by the Shipping News’ Shipping Correspondent, PA Sinclair, set me to thinking about…
I worked in Customs and Excise for thirty years from 1960 to 1990. Mostly in Fremantle, but also Perth airport.…
You would think being slugged $13,500 each time your ship left port full of iron ore would cause a minor…