Ineffective bridge resource management, distraction contributed to container ship’s collision with Leeuwin - Fremantle Shipping News Ineffective coordination and monitoring by the crew and harbour pilots on board the container ship Maersk Shekou contributed to its collision with STS Leeuwin II in the Port of Fremantle, the Australi...

so Australia’s ATSB has pointed fingers at those responsible for letting the container ship Maersk Shekou collide with the berthed STS Leeuwin II in Freo just over 12 months ago. Read on…

First The Louvre, Now Freo’s Fishing Boat Harbour - Fremantle Shipping News Breaking news from the Freo waterfront. Eddie the Octopus has gone AWOL The bronze sculpture of Eddie the Octopus by acclaimed Freo sculptor Greg James, that usually observes goings-on outside Kailis’...

It’s gone AWOL!

Arise Mayor Lawver - Fremantle Shipping News Ben Lawver is elected Mayor and Freo has two new Councillors as well as two returning ones After a strongly contested Mayoral election in City of Fremantle, early this afternoon, when the WA Electoral...

Freo has a new Mayor!

The things you see! - Fremantle Shipping News Freo Today. 10 October 2025. The things you see in South Terrace, South Fremantle!

The things you see around Fremantle!

No more Virgins or Queens for Freo - Fremantle Shipping News Bad cruise news just keeps coming, Australia is quietly undergoing a cruise crisis. Post COVID, we had a roaring success, but at the moment we are seeing a huge decline. There will be no more visits f...

Cruising slowing …

Is Queen Mary 2 an Icon of the Seas? - Fremantle Shipping News So, just how big is Queen Mary 2? How does she match up with the latest icons of the seas? Does she still rate? The much-admired Queen Mary 2, of Cunard fame, has recently been feted in Liverpool, Eng...

So, is she? Still an icon of the seas?

SEEING RED: The Roaring Twenties - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Karl Marx and Donald Trump - Fremantle Shipping News SEEING RED is an irregular column on Fremantle Shipping News by Barry Healy*. In this piece, Barry considers how Donald Trump’s 2020s seems to have a lot in common with Jay Gatsby’s 1920s and Emperor ...

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SEEING RED: The Roaring Twenties - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Karl Marx and Donald Trump - Fremantle Shipping News SEEING RED is an irregular column on Fremantle Shipping News by Barry Healy*. In this piece, Barry considers how Donald Trump’s 2020s seems to have a lot in common with Jay Gatsby’s 1920s and Emperor ...

Another gilded age?

Interview with Brendan Hutchens - Director and Producer of Disney+ Shipwreck Hunters Australia Series Two - Fremantle Shipping News On 27 August 2025, season two of the Australian Original series Shipwreck Hunters Australia, premiered exclusively on Disney+ following a dazzling launch at Fremantle’s world class Maritime Museum. Th...

Great podcast interview with Freo’s Brendan Hutchens Director and Producer of Disney+’s Shipwreck Hunters Australia series two, now streaming

The Global State of the Cruise Industry - Fremantle Shipping News With New Zealand as a ‘cautionary tale’ and Western Australia on the up and up The 2025 Australian Cruise Association Conference started in Fremantle on Wednesday at The Esplanade Hotel Fremantle by R...

Just how is the global cruise industry doing? Pretty well, by this account. But not New Zealand’s. However, Western Australia’s is on the up and up.

Scenic Eclipse II Departs Freo - Fremantle Shipping News Freo Today. 4 September 2025. The super sleek Scenic Eclipse II, on her maiden voyage to Fremantle, departed the harbour just after 6 pm last night. With the WA Minister for Tourism  Reece Whitby, she...

One super sleek ‘yacht’!

JCCA’S BRAND NEW MIA MOORNA, THE HOUSE OF SOUND, OFFICIALLY OPENED - Fremantle Shipping News Today, 25 August 2025, there is magic in the air with the official opening of the most spectacular place of learning any student and teacher could wish for: the world class Mia Moorna, the House of So...

Great story!

Scenic Eclipse II - and Reece Whitby - to open 2025 ACA Conference in Freo - Fremantle Shipping News The 2025 Australian Cruise Association Conference opens in Fremantle next Wednesday 3 September and runs over 3 days.  The conference will be opened not only officially – by Reece Whitby, Western Aust...

Scenic Eclipse II - and Reece Whitby - to open ACA conference in Freo!

My Favourite Freo Street - Fremantle Shipping News My favourite street? The little gem of Pearse Street, nestling peacefully between the old Town Centre and the railway, with its air of quiet neighbourliness, ranks high among my favourite streets in N...

Yours?

The STS Young Endeavour departed Fremantle this morning at 9 on a training exercise, followed here by a tug and a Rottnest Island ferry. Quite a sight. You’ll articles about the YE’s visit to Freo up now on FSN. Make sure you SUBSCRIBE to THE WEEKLY EDITION while you are there!

Spectacular! - Fremantle Shipping News Freo Today. 10 August 2025. After all the rain yesterday, Freo folk gazing over the Traffic Bridge works were rewarded with this sunset. Spectacular!

Spectacular!

The Catalpa Escape Podcast Series - Episode 4 - Fremantle Shipping News In Episode 1 of the Catalpa Escape Podcast Series, our narrator, Margo O’Byrne, set the scene for the famous 1876 Catalpa Escape of the ‘Military’ Fenians from just south of Fremantle, Western Austral...

Our The Catalpa Escape Podcast Series has become very popular with readers/listeners! Here’s Episode 4. You’ll find the links to Episodes 1-3 on this podcast too. Enjoy!

The Catalpa Escape Podcast Series - Episode 3 - Fremantle Shipping News In Episode 1 of the Catalpa Escape Podcast Series, our narrator, Margo O’Byrne, set the scene for the famous 1876 Catalpa Escape of the ‘Military’ Fenians from just south of Fremantle, Western Austral...

Don’t miss Episode 3 in our The Catalpa Escape Podcast Series. A great story!

Ode to the Succulents of Fremantle - Fremantle Shipping News It doesn’t seem to matter where you walk in Fremantle, succulents await you. They are part of Freo’s urban design. Central, South, North, East, Hilton, Beacy, The Valley, O’Connor, Samson – they all h...

Ode to the Succulents of Freo!

Who will buy US grain-fed beef anyway? - Fremantle Shipping News Most US beef is grain-fed, not grass-fed. That means cattle are typically raised on pasture for part of their lives, then finished on corn or other grains in feedlots to accelerate growth and marbling...

Can’t imagine many Aussies will be interested in US grain-fed beef!

Brick Phone Club - Fremantle Shipping News If you ever suspect that your smartphone has a hold on you, Brick Phone Club is for you. Conceived by local artist and environmental champion, Lora Flora, Brick Phone Club is a place for people to gat...

Here’s a good longer read!

No National Guards, No Marines, No Handcuffs! - Fremantle Shipping News Freo Today. 13 June 2025. Occupy Wilson MP. A ruly bunch of climate and environmental activists this afternoon occupied the Fremantle electorate office of Josh Wilson MP, Assistant Minister in the Fed...

Occupy Wilson MP. Very Freo. Not a National Guard, Marine 9r set of handcuffs in sight!

Now here’s an idea - Monorail between Fremantle, Mojos, Port Beach & Leighton - Fremantle Shipping News With the closure of the Old Traffic Bridge just after Christmas this year, and the proposed traffic re-routing with the closure of Canning Highway entries to Stirling Highway, just south of Stirling B...

Now, here’s an idea!

Josh Wilson. Reelected MP for Fremantle in the Federal Parliament. It’s official.

Hearts & Minds - Hulett struggles to keep a lid on it - Fremantle Shipping News A quietly confident Kate Hulett fronted the media on Victoria Quay this morning to answer the question on everyone’s lips: How are you feeling being ahead of sitting member Josh Wilson in the race for...

The Federal Fight For Freo Goes On And On - Hulett struggles to keep a lid on it. Will the Community Independent unseat Josh Wilson in the formerly impregnable Labor citadel of Fremantle?

Ocean with David Attenborough: Film Review - 10/10 - Fremantle Shipping News “This is the story of our ocean and how we must write its next chapter together. For if we save the sea, we save our world. After a lifetime of filming our planet, I’m sure that nothing is more import...

Absolutely not to be missed. Opening 8 May!

FISAF 2025 Freezeframes - Fremantle Shipping News A few snaps of the Fremantle Interational Street Arts Festival Something for everyone this April with ample energy in the air and on the ground! For those travelling elsewhere this Easter or resting, ...

The Fremantle International Street Arts Festival - FISAF - has just finished. Gayle O’Leary had freezeframed all the action for us. Enjoy!

Lest We Forget - Lone Pine Cemetery - Fremantle Shipping News Freo Today. 25 April 2025. On 25 April 1915, just 110 years ago, the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps – the ANZACs – landed at Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula, as part of a broader Allied c...

Today is ANZAC Day in Australia and New Zealand. Lest we forget. This feature story tells it all. There’s a cast to be made for ANZAC Day being our national day and Waltzing Matilda. Ring our national anthem.

A Heartfelt Welcome! - Fremantle Shipping News Freo Today. 6 April 2025. Nearly 5 years ago, on 20 April 2020, in the difficult early days of Covid regulation, the Artania was an unscheduled and largely unwelcome visitor to Fremantle. A number of ...

5 years later, we extend to Artania a heartfelt welcome!

Ink and Drink - Fremantle Shipping News Were my eyes deceiving me? I hadn’t been in Running With Thieves in South Freo for a while but found myself there Saturday night after dark. The place was humming. Folk drinking, eating, all the way t...

Only in Freo!