Contents:

• President's Report

• China is 'not a threat to Australia', ... Peter Cosgrove

• Interesting ship of the week - NASA recovery ships

• Somali pirates seize German-owned cargoship

• Is piracy a successful business model?

• Shipping container dormitory

• Labor reneges on submarine promise to builder ASC

• Coalition may bar defence increase

• Strategic closure of defence sites a political minefield

• Shipping company wants to plead guilty to two oil spill charges

• Somali pirates using London contacts: Report

• New career is shipshape for Jessica.....

• Jury awards Michigan man $1.8M for shipping mishapduluth....

• Hapag-Lloyd's UK staff vent anger over redundancy clause

• Bill calls for shake-up of UK navigation authorities

• NYK super eco ship 2030: how ships will look in the future

• Analysis of Somali pirate activity in 2009

Contents:

• President's Report
• Australian Marine Complex, Henderson, WA
• An update on the Global Positioning System
• Port Phillip Channel deepening project
• Grounding of USN guided missile cruiser
• Russia plans 39 space launches in 2009
• A new method of passive aircraft navigation and terrain avoidance?
• Avalon Air Show - March 2009
• Starling flock "engulfed" Ryanair 737
• Is the A380 a quiet aircraft?
• A330 hard landing followed flight computer mismatch
• Brain blood flow gives clues to pilot stress levels
• Biofuels: ANZ in "second generation" first
• Passengers flying into Heathrow in fog or poor visibility will be guided in using a new microwave-based system
• US flighter jet crash kills pilot

Contents:

• President's Report
• Ouzo: Man cleared, standards questioned
• Navy court punishes submarine officer for midsea collision
• Novel software technology allows naval watchstanders to monitor large numbers of ships & focuses their attention on those that pose the greatest threat
• Canada seeks historic shipwrecks
• Report of a fatal accident that occurred aboard a 93,000 GRT bulk carrier, whilst on passage
• New piracy events
• Cummings comment on marine safety hearing
• Fifth cadet training Memorandum of Agreement signed between private industry & federal government
• Vanguard bell debate heats up
• eLORAN signal goes live in the UK
• Keel laying of new cruise ship in German shipyard
• Airbus transports first aircraft segments to assembly line in China
• Second A380 Ro-Ro vessel named "City of Hamburg" at ceremony in Singapore
• Central Europe will need some 460 new aircraft within the next 20 years
• Boeing 787 composite barrel load tests completed
• Boeing 777-20ER crash landed at London Heathrow
• The first Boeing 777F enters final assembly
• Piloting the future
• Boeing plans for further B787 delay

Contents:

• President's Report
• Japan Navy ship en route from Hawaii collides with fishing boat
• Average GPS chipset costs under two pounds
• Sat-nav news
• Michelle Goodman's historic Distinguished Flying Cross
• Panama Canal Authority begins countdown to Pacific entrance dredging for expansion
• Ship pilot charged in San Francisco Bay oil spill case
• Ship hit island as ex-lovers talked at helm
• Seven foreign ships under detention in the UK during January 2008
• U.S. attorney: five intoxicated crew members arrested
• NYK makes most of tides
• Explaining Complacency and Routinisation
• Ship owners really need to ask one question: "How much are you willing to pay in order to keep your crew?"
• An oil tanker has sunk and rescue crews are searching for 14 crew missing and feared dead in the South China Sea
• Confused captain denies airport exists 25 March 2008
• Books: No Port in a Storm
• Aviation News: Boeing and Airbus join forces to improve aviation's environmental performance

Contents:

• President's Report
• Cutty Sark & Mary Rose get lottery boost
• Slaughter at sea: the story of Japan's naval war crimes
• Report on the investigation of the collision between "Gas Monarch" and "Whispa"
• The joys of the old salts shipping days
• Yet another collision: between "RAS Laffan" and "Ashlon"
• Challenge to Torres Strait pilotage
• Kite to pull ship across Atlantic
• Merchant ship "Mendi" is honoured by South Africa for the name of a bravery award
• Milestone agreement reached on co-operation over the Straits of Malacca and Singapore, Sept 2007
• OOW on trial
• Long-range identification and tracking of ships - SOLAS amendment eneters into force on 1 January 2008
• Firms fined over QM2 death
• Aviation News

Contents:

• President's Report
• Synopsis of Incident: Sea Express and Alaska Rainbow
• New penalties for drunken sailor
• Traffic Separation Scheme - Sunk?
• Navigating the harbour: Marine exchange of Southern California works to prevent ship collisions
• Grounding of a woodchip carrier during pilotage through incorrect use of helm
• 59th Annual General Meeting
• Galileo confusion caused by 'myths'?
• Aviation News
• UKHO's digital future vision
• Exxon asks High Court to void Valdez spill damages
• Greece: Sunken cruise ship 'misled by faulty maps'
• New GPS satellite operational

Contents:

• President's Report
• Australian Transport Safety Bureau Report: Knockdown of the "Windeward"
• MOB Alarm
• UK flag makes top spot
• ECDIS plots the future of Navigation
• European Maritime Radionavigation Forum
• Aviation News
• In retrospect 20 years ago this month, July 1987
• Prisoners to be put in cargo containers
• Panama seafarer ID still in the works
• Seamless navigation: technology on the High Seas
• Mercury barometers consigned to history
• China develops GPS/GLONASS receiver
• Shipmasters condemn dry ships policy
• US Army's $300 million GPS contract
• Watchkeeping certificates
• Errors led to capsize

Contents:

• President's Report
• Fire on "Java Sea" in Cairns
• New from IMO to IAIN
• The signs aren't good for satnav...
• GPS III contract approaching
• Merchant brilliant
• Charting the MacHorizon
• ENC-GNSS Time Nav '07
• Loss of HMS "Serpent"
• Airbus 'must spread pain' of job cuts
• European flights up 5.6% in January
• True value of Britain's growing Marine Fleet
• 20 Years Ago
• Women in Command

Contents:

• President's Report
• Grounding of the ship "Mellum" in the port of Thevenard
• Solid state radar
• GPS update...
• Galileo information...
• Comments about & by the capt. of "Emma Maersk", the largest container vessel in the world
• Arrest in yacht loss and loss of life follows check in ferry's voice data recorder
• Financial statements of the AIN
• Airbus A380 receives joint EASA & FAA type certification
• Airbus corporate jetliner to fly to Antarctica
• Captain jailed to stop him fleeing
• Pirates changing focus, warns IMB
• The new dawn of time
• New Australian patrol vessel
• Ambulance's 400-mile Satnav detour

Contents:

• President's Report
• QE2's lethal attack board
• Notice of AGM
• Sale of "Spirit of Tasmania III" settled
• Recent appointments ot the Board of AMSA
• Japan produces chart radar series
• Ships turned away at Suez Canal after blockage
• 30 years ago or more - Sept 1976
• Syria-bound ship held after arms discovery 21-9-2006
• Port Hedland concerns prompt helicopter change
• Aviation briefs
• IMO says no plans to place toll on Malacca Strait
• Officer in charge of Channel ferry is arrested over yacht crew deaths
• The great debate about the use of AIS
• "Emma Maersk" launched

Contents:

• President's Report
• Explosion aboard "Front Sundra"
• Marine safety chief defends sanctions against pilot
• Sugar ship hits PNG reef - a sweet grounding?
• Members might take this onboard and advise appropriate parties
• Aviation News
• Maritime and Coastguard Agency (National) - eleven foreign ships under detention in the UK during May 2006
• Navigation equipment issues paper
• Report into sinking of "Al Salam Boccaccio 98" on Feb 3rd 2006
• M.V. "Ocean Sekaya" grounded and a total loss
• Book: Rogue Waves 2004
• Tug master of "Anglian Sovereign" imprisoned for grounding and subsequent pollution
• Independent investigation into the loss of the Dept. of Immigration & Multicultural & Indigenous Affairs vessel "Malu Sara" in Torres Strait, Queensland, Australia, 15 October 2005

Contents:

• President's Report
• Australian Transport Safety Bureau Report of grounding of the Sail Training Ship "Leeuwin II" in Prince Frederick Harbour, Western Australia...
• Collision avoidance must be taught beyond classroom
• Ghost ship to be sunk in Coral Sea
• Launch of submersible ROV by Korea
• Airbus news - A380: successful completion of evacuation test
• Building commences of "Argo": the legendary vessel of Jason and the Argonauts
• Panama US$7B canal expansion to lure super-ships
• Shipping industry 'faces serious shortage of experienced officers'
• Lloyds list: Maersk leads way in giant invasion...
• Boeing world air cargo forecast predicts robust 20-year growth
• Sea Harriers fly for the last time

Contents:

• President's Report
• Australian Transport Safety Bureau Report of collision between "Marie Chocolat" and "Goa"...
• Proposed ship buidling program for Australian destroyers
• Global Tracking System: "We know where you are Captain"
• From the U.K. Marine Accident Investigation Unit - Safety Digest
• Tank ship explodes and sinks off Virginia
• Master of "Katrin" charged with being four times over the alcohol limit
• Quote of the week...
• Starving stowaways survive

Contents:

• President's Report
• Australian Transport Safety Bureau Rept.211 ...
• Airbus launches the new A350 aircraft
• Books: The Last Sentry
• 15 foreign ships under detection in the UK during July 2005
• Notice of AGM & statement of financial position of the AION
• Maritime NZ Media Release 7 Oct 2005: vessel grounds while skipper asleep
• Australia to raise emergency fund
• Ships crew released
• Design & performance of marine radar has improved beyond all recognition in lettle more than 30 years ...
• Rejected takeoff tests
• Another look at the great coverage controversy of the 1950s

Contents:

• President's Report
• Media Release: Container vessel "Maersk Tacoma" disabled
• Piracy shows welcome drop in first half of 2005
• Books: The Pirate Hunter
• Long range tracking of ships
• While Indian shipbuilders struggle to survive, Philippines aims to be major shipbuilder
• Congratulations Professor Edgar Gold
• Fraudulent marine certificates ...
• "Greenpeace" master imprisoned
• Airbus and Irkut to evaluate Russian participation in the A350 and future Airbus aircraft
• Morse code hasn't done its dash ...
• Collision between "Dorthe Dalsoe" (Denmark) and "Scot Explorer" (UK)

Contents:

• President's Column
• Investigation into grounding of the Maltese registered cargo ship "Tauranga Chief"...
• Piracy & armed robbery against ships...
• Airbus A380 makes debut ...
• Long range tracking of ships
• Presentation by Alan Tipett at March Meeting: Aeromedical Operations & the Royal Flying Doctor Service
• Accident investigation report (UK)
• A book for mariners & others
• Safety for bulk carriers
• Marine investigation No.205
• Reducing congestion: New ATC concept
• Galileo & GPS to work together

Contents:

• President's Column
• Investigation into grounding of the Passenger Vessel "Astor"...
• Geospatial Information & Services within Defence ...
• Pilot's allegations cannot be supported, ...
• First female to command in Shell company tankers
• Australia's longest rescue flight
• Corrosion: the curse of the mariner
• Book: Latitude & the Magnetic Earth
• Reducing congestion: new ATC concept
• The Admiralty Collection
• Book: Astro Navigation
• Bridge watch-keeping safety study
• Shipbuilding never on FTA agenda ...