Coastal Shipping

[ombugge]

Will coastal shipping be revived in Australia and New Zealand?:

Australia looks at developing coastal trades - Splash247

Shipping Australia, the country’s shipowning association, has repeatedly dismissed the idea of establishing a national cargo fleet.
“Similar nationalist policies have been tried in the past – both here and in the United States – and they have been profound failures,” states a post on the organisation’s site, published earlier this year.

Neighbouring New Zealand has had a significant rethink on coastal shipping this year.

[ombugge]

Maybe something like this could be useful to revive coastal shipping in more places than Oz and NZ?:

Shippers sign up for revolutionary hydrogen-powered box-carrying hydrofoil -...

[Ausmariner]

Will not happen.

We are entrenched with much cheaper flag of convenience tonnage and that will not change.