Tag: Australia

Tests conducted in Australia in 2017 indicate that the EVDS was not recognisable as a distress alert when seen. This reinforces that EVDS devices should not be used instead of a pyrotechnic flare. AMSA reminds that distress signals carried should comply with either the SOLAS or the Australian standard.

In order to keep the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug out of the country, Australia tightened their surveillance of vessels arriving from the US, Japan and some European countries between 1 September 2018 and 30 April 2019, Gard P&I Club informs. This is an agricultural pest that feeds on, and can damage fruit and vegetable crops.

Australia’s National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority informed that it found safety problems on Inpex's offshore gas platform Ichthys LNG project off northern Australia. As a result the authority is considering enforcement action.

The Australian Government has awarded IBM a new AU$1B, five-year technology partnership, involving IBM hardware, software and cloud-based solutions, and including joint innovation programs in quantum, cyber security, and research aimed at furthering the government's digital transformation agenda.

AMSA will be the only service provider under the National System for Domestic Commercial Vessel Safety. Australia will allocate an additional $10 million funding for the national system, which means no taxes to the industry for the first three years of AMSA's service delivery, in order to help all operators as services transition. 

The two-year old LNG carrier 'CESI Gladstone' will resume it route to China within this week, after it suffered loss of propulsion while underway from Australia on 22 June. The ship had just loaded a cargo at the Australia Pacific LNG plant, when it sustained a main engine outage resulting in a loss of propulsion,

Australia's Department of Agriculture and Water Resources suspended the live export licence of the company implicated in the death of 2,400 sheep from heat stress onboard the livestock carrier 'Awassi Express' in August 2017. The licence will remain suspended pending a full review of the company’s response to a show cause notice.

In a bid to align with the ambitious targets on ship emissions reduction by 2050, Australian ports have started applying measures to encourage the industry to minimize GHG. In mid-May, NSW Ports announced introduction of an environmental incentive to apply to vessel related charges at Port Botany and Port Kembla.

After more than three days of trying to put out the fire the broke out on a bulker at Port Kembla, firefighters managed to extinguish it. Crews used high expansion foam into the cargo hold, a strategy that proved successful. As Fire and Rescue New South Wales informed, there are no signs of smoke from the ship and field temperature levels are dropping.

Large fire was reported onboard a bulk carrier, at the Port of Kempla, Australia. To tackle the fire on the bulk carrier "Iron Chieftain's," cargo hold, Over 100 firefighters were deployed, while booms are in place as a precaution. No fuel leak or injuries were reported, and the ships structure is sound.