Yonhap Infomax NewsSep 3, 2025
Moon Chung-do has been inaugurated as the 18th Chairman of the Korea Shipowners’ Association, securing a three-year term to represent over 2,200 members in South Korea’s coastal shipping industry.
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Korea Shipowners’ Association Appoints Moon Chung-do as 18th Chairman

Moon Chung-do has been inaugurated as the 18th Chairman of the Korea Shipowners’ Association, securing a three-year term to represent over 2,200 members in South Korea’s coastal shipping industry.

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John ArnoldFeb 15, 2025

_The Evening Post_, 16 February 1925:
PERSONAL MATTERS
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The death is announced of Captain Arthur #Irvine at Timaru on Saturday. Born at Larwick, Shetland Islands, in 1835, the late Captain Irvine was a well-known figure in the New Zealand coastal trade some years back. He went to sea at an early age, and arrived in Australia in 1856, and in. New Zealand four years later. For nine years Captain Irvine was with the New Zealand Steam Navigation Company, Wellington, and during that period rose to the position of chief mate. In 1872 he took charge of the Wanganui-built vessel Tongariro, and later was in the Egmont. He was appointed pilot at #Wanganui in 1878, and shortly afterwards became harbour-master and pilot there, a position which he held for a number of years.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250216.2.115

#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #Obituaries #Captains #HarbourMasters #CoastalShipping #Whanganui #NewZealand

Show threadJimmyDec 8, 2023

I might end up posting more thoughts on roads and rail as this is something that interests me, particularly as National & their lobbyists start pushing to close the Napier-Wairoa line to turn it into a road.

Firstly, there are lots of reasons the Napier-Wairoa line might not get utilised as much as it should.

It only reopened in Jan 2020, just prior to something happening globally that year slowing things down. So it got suspended until Nov 2020.

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#trains #coastalshipping #roads

JimmyDec 8, 2023

It sounds increasingly to me like National and their regional/local allies are making a play to pinch the rail corridor from Napier to Wairoa and turn it into a road instead of rail.

As a rail lover I obviously think this would be a travesty; but more than that it seems to me that its an exercise in futility. If we continue to get larger, wetter & wilder storms more often, more land will slip.

The most resilient route between Wairoa & Napier to me would be by sea.

#coastalshipping

Panos RoussosOct 31, 2023

Extremely disappointing that Attica Group is doubling down on exhaust scrubbers in order to maximize profit out of continuing using heavy fuel oil (up to 3.5% m/m content in Sulphur). Disregard to science and short-sightedness in business policy.

#ακτοπλοΐα #coastalshipping #IMO2050 #Emissions

https://www.kathimerini.gr/economy/business/562698844/i-epomeni-imera-meta-ti-sygchoneysi-me-aporrofisi-tis-anek-apo-tin-attica-group/

Show threadKay   Mar 21, 2023
#CoastalShipping to move goods around Aotearoa New Zealand is a great idea @JimmyKip But who will do it? Close down of NZ services by Maersk won't help
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/486406/global-shipping-giant-maersk-pulls-new-zealand-coastal-service
Global shipping giant Maersk pulls New Zealand coastal service

There are concerns for New Zealand's supply chain security after global shipping giant Maersk announced it would pull its national shipping service.

RNZ
Show threadJimmyMar 21, 2023

And another addendum. This isn't even an old idea lost to the past - at least outside New Zealand.

Norway is a long country, with lots of coast and challenging terrain for roads. They have loads of coastal ferries shipping freight and people around about the place.

So money and clinging onto road transport at all costs is really what holds us back from replicating at least some of those types of services.

#coastalshipping

Show threadJimmyMar 21, 2023

Just as an addendum to that last post.

Last visit to Auckland I went to the Maritime Museum, which is way more than Americas Cup stuff. There's a section on NZ designed sailing dinghys, and another on indigenous Pacific boats & seacraft.

Scattered throughout various parts are large scale models of the old coastal ships that used to ply their trade around New Zealand. A feature of almost all was cabins for passengers as well as space for freight.

This isn't a new idea!

#coastalshipping

JimmyMar 21, 2023

Huzzah, there's a call to bring back the Wellington to Lyttleton ferry!

https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/news/131519569/is-it-time-to-reconsider-the-wellington-to-lyttelton-overnight-ferry

Heck yes! I suspect folks in NZ aren't aware that many ferry journeys take much longer than the 3 & a bit hours our Wellington-Picton services run.

I mean there's a ferry service from Portsmouth-Bilbao that takes a day & a half!

More coastal ferries (along with freight shipping) sounds good to me. I'd catch one Napier-Auckland overnight to do a holiday up North!

#coastalshipping #ferries

Is it time to reconsider the Wellington to Lyttelton overnight ferry?

With Cook Strait ferry problems and a need to cut emissions, there is some support to bring back the ferry to Christchurch.

Stuff