Category Archives: General

You are invited to comment on the draft Maritime Rule Part 32, Ships and Maritime Operations Personnel – Qualifications (re-issue). Purpose of the draft Part 3 32 Rule 2 Maritime Rule Part 32 (re-issue) is a complete re-draft of the … Continue reading →

Gisborne Herald Friday, 28 December 2007  by John Jones THE multimillion-dollar Jody F Millennium case has been settled and Gisborne’s ratepayers are off the hook. Gisborne District Council chief executive Lindsay McKenzie advised councillors of the settlement but it was … Continue reading →

Article from Fairplay 13 December 2007 The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) will introduce “near-coastal” certificates for deck and engineering officers next year, in a bid to remedy the maritime labour shortage. AMSA’s manager of ship operations and qualifications, Mark … Continue reading →

  Lloyds List – 6 December 2007  by Michelle Wiese Bockmann Pasha Bulker Master Avoids Prosecution for Grounding NO charges will be laid against the master of the Pasha Bulker, despite an Australian report assessing his seamanship as “poor” and responsible … Continue reading →

Part of an article by Ken Scadden which appeared in the Wellington Captital Times on Thursday 29 November 2007.  The announcement of the change of name of the Museum of Wellington City and Sea to Wellington Museum is a blatant betrayal of … Continue reading →

A copy of the latest issue of On Deck was sent to our Patron, Governor-General Anand Satyanand who has replied with the following letter.

THE Australian Shipowners Association has been buoyed by the release of two studies that backed its lines on coastal shipping and employment. The inter-governmental Australian Maritime Group commissioned one report, ‘International and Domestic Shipping and Ports Study’ and released in … Continue reading →

Fogging Up the Facts –  Lloyds List 19 November 2007 SOMETHING went seriously wrong the other day on the bridge of the big containership Cosco Busan as the vessel was being manoeuvred out of San Francisco Bay. It might have been … Continue reading →

The John Sinclair, General Manager Mitsui OSK NZ Ltd, Hon Annette King, Minister of Transport, Captain John Brown and Allan Thompson, Chief Executive, Ministry of Transport at Parliament 05 November 2007    The Master represented the Company at Parliamemt for the official … Continue reading →

Lloyds List 24 October 2007 by Brian Robinson  “A container never dies,” according to Adrian Dunner, the man in charge of container lessor TAL International’s Trader division, which markets containers that have expired from the prime fleet. What Mr Dunner … Continue reading →