Authorities blamed an early course changed and the lack of a look out in new findings on a January collision between a panamax boxship and a trawler off Australia.

At about 0015 on 23 January, the 3,478-teu Beijing Bridge (built 2005) collided with the 32-metre Australian fishing trawler Saxon Onward about three nautical miles southeast of Australia's Gabo Island.

No one was injured in the collision, according to a report by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB).