Over the past week, the master and first officer of a bulk carrier were fined $75,000 for breaching a designated shipping area in the Great Barrier Reef, and a protester suspended herself from the mooring line of a fishing vessel in Hobart. In the Middle East, a toxic gas explosion in a port killed at least 13 people and injured more than 250. A man was charged for his role in a plot to smuggle 1.2 tonnes of cocaine into Australia by transferring drugs between vessels at sea, and the deadly varroa mite - a parasite threatening Australia's bee population - was detected in Port of Newcastle.
