Shipping
Households are being stung by higher costs as port fees soar: ACCC
The watchdog has called out a surge in fees charged to transport companies bringing goods such as electronics, cars, and clothing into the country.
- Elias Visontay
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How Putin’s ‘ghost ships’ put billions worth of blood oil into Australian cars
Australians have paid billions of dollars for petrol sourced from Russian oil – despite sanctions against Vladimir Putin’s regime. We’ve now managed to track exactly how it’s getting here.
- David Crowe
A new ocean front opens in Trump’s trade wars
“The shipping news weren’t good this week” as both the US and China started implementing hefty port fees on each other’s vessels.
- Stephen Bartholomeusz
Yemen's Houthi rebels sink two cargo ships in Red Sea
The Houthis have released footage of their attacks on two cargo ships this week, with missiles and drones sinking both vessels using the crucial maritime trade route.
The 2000-tonne ship at risk of sinking and causing chaos on harbour and across the city
The Cape Don has deteriorated to such a state that there are doubts about whether it can be towed without breaking up and jeopardising the city’s fuel supply.
- Harriet Alexander
‘It was quite absurd’: Man awakes to find container ship wedged in his yard
Johan Helberg woke to find the ship’s towering green bow standing metres from his seaside home in Norway.
- Vivian Ho
‘Criminal act’: Kim Jong-un demands answers after warship launch fiasco
North Korea says arrests will be made as it steps up its investigation into how the country’s most modern destroyer ended up on its side, half underwater.
- Hyunsu Yim
Turbulent waters may have played role in Brooklyn Bridge tall ship crash
Footage of the incident shot by horrified onlookers shows the Mexican naval ship hurtling into the bridge in reverse at full speed, as dozens of sailors stood atop its masts.
- Joshua Goodman and Susan Haigh
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