In the news this week, a man was charged for smuggling 7000 litres of alcohol into Australia while already serving a prison sentence for importing 100,000 cigarettes in the same shipment. Pacifica Shipping announced a new vessel on its NZ coastal service, and Maritime Safety Queensland hosted an oil spill response exercise in Gladstone. The World Shipping Council released some “worrying” figures in its latest Containers Lost at Sea report, and DHL Supply Chain announced it would acquire a national logistics company.