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Three Tasmania state-owned services companies could be merged in a bid by the minority Liberal government to boost performance and accountability.

A lack of government support is partly to blame for delays and cost blowouts for two new passenger ferries set to sail the route between Victoria and Tasmania.

Residents of remote King Island in Bass Strait say improvements to their main sea freight service are needed.

Exclusive: the RSV Nuyina cannot sail safely under the Hobart bridge, meaning a round trip of hundreds more kilometres to refuel

The ship's master and second mate on the bulk cement carrier vessel which crashed into and sank two tugboats in Tasmania's north-west last year had not undertaken required training, a safety regulator's report finds.

A ship banned from Tasmanian waters in order to preserve "the protection of human life, marine assets and the environment" has been re-admitted, less than a year after being involved in the sinking of two tugboats.

Of the 35 cruise ships due to dock in Burnie this season, five have already been unable to make the stop, and it means local tourism operators and businesses are missing out.

Flooding in north and northwest Tasmania remains dangerous despite rain easing, authorities warn.

It was messy, muddy and slow, but "it needed to be", authorities say. The operation to lift the first of two Devonport tugboats has exposed the damage that sank them in January.