19 August 2026
Qantas reports FY26 earnings on 27 August. Explore how Qantas plans to offset rising fuel costs and international margin pressure.
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19 August 2026
The mayor says community members feel the council's approach to consent was not tough enough, but the forestry industry has expressed a different view.
19 August 2026
Lisa Maclennan and her husband Travis warned others at the campground of the potential for further landslips after their campervan was pushed forward by an earlier slip.
19 August 2026
The urgent debate on Chris Penk's demotion was an eclectic collection of reckons that sometimes resembled a goodbye tribute. We discuss the event, with pictures.
19 August 2026
“We’ve always done it this way, and we’re still here.” For Steve Bomgardner, CEO of ABS Wavesight, a maritime software-as-a-service company, that sentence neatly captures both shipping’s greatest strength and one of the biggest obstacles to its digital transformation. “Maritime’s durability is also its trap,” Bomgardner tells Maritime CEO. “The industry has survived for centuries …
19 August 2026
China’s extraordinary shipbuilding boom is pulling another small domestic yard deeper into the oceangoing market, the latest sign that capacity is spreading well beyond the country’s established shipbuilding giants. Yizheng Kangping Ship Repair Yard in Jiangsu started construction this week of its first 5,000 ceu pure car and truck carrier, ordered by newly established Hainan …
19 August 2026
Few shipping bets have paid off as spectacularly as Sinokor Maritime’s extraordinary tanker buying campaign. The South Korean owner has dominated secondhand tanker acquisitions in 2026, buying 73 ships for $5. 925bn, according to VesselsValue. That is roughly equivalent to the combined spending of the next eight largest tanker buyers in the year to date and …
19 August 2026
Mediterranean Shipping Co (MSC) has reached another extraordinary fleet milestone, taking its tally of secondhand containership acquisitions since August 2020 to 500 ships, according to Alphaliner. The landmark comes with the Swiss carrier’s acquisition of the 2,796 teu Calandra for a reported $27m and the 1,732 teu Fitz Roy for more than $26m. In its …
