Australia’s new Joint Offshore Protection Command (JOPC) will ensure any terrorist threat to the nation’s maritime assets and coastline can be quickly detected and defeated, the minister for defence, Senator Robert Hill, and the minister for justice and customs, Senator Ellison, said today.
Hawaii: A judge today fined German shipping company Schlussel Reederei 750-thousand dollars for violating a federal pollution act. The company admitted the crew of the Ibuki violated the law in November by failing to maintain an oil record book, which lists discharges of unprocessed oily bilge waste
Haixun-31, China’s largest marine inspection vessel equipped with helicopter berthed slowly at Gaolan Harbor, Zhuhai City, at 10:40 am Sunday. In six months, China’s largest marine inspection base will be completed here and put into operation.
MALAYSIAN Industrial Development Authority (Mida) received seven new applications for shipbuilding and ship-repairing projects in 2004. Total investments from applications amounted to RM70.8 million, of which almost 95 per cent or RM66.9 million was from domestic sources and RM3.9 million from forei
Big logistics firms also set for a positive growth path The transport and logistics sector managed to post a positive one-year total shareholder return last year of 14%, the fourth best performer among the 27 sectors, despite the contraction in the Stock Exchange of Thailand.
AFTER divesting 32 bulk carriers last year, Malaysia International Shipping Corp Bhd (MISC) is cruising ahead with its plan to rationalise non-core assets and focus on its growing energy-based portfolio.
Coast guard authorities of nations in the area around the Strait of Malacca, where three crew members of the Japanese tugboat Idaten were abducted last week, are ill-equipped to fight sea piracy. In addition, shipping companies distrust naval authorities, instead seeking to resolve piracy cases thro
Shreyas Shipping has signed a contract with Singapore Technologies Marine for building a new container vessel of 1070 teus. The vessel will be built in Singapore. With a view to exploit the growth opportunities offered by the shipping industry, the company proposes to increase its fleet strength to
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Singapore and China signed a protocol Tuesday to enhance the existing Maritime Transport Agreement between the two countries. Also known as the Shipping Agreement, the Maritime Transport Agreement between Singapore and China was first signed in 1989 to provide the shipping lines of both countries ac
After two full weeks of testing, watching and waiting, 12 second boat crew candidates assembled in Portugal to hear whether or not they would begin the next phase of their life: spending the next year and a half preparing for and sailing under the ABN AMRO banner in the Volvo Ocean Race. Sailing dir
Sakhalin Prosecutor General’s office filed a law suit against European Dredging Company S.A. from Belgium demanding restitution of damages the Russian Federation incurred as a result of oil spillage from the Cristoforo Colombo dredge, announced prosecutors from the Sakhalin region (Sakhalin is an is
Russell Coutts and Alinghi boss Ernesto Bertarelli have reached a settlement, but it remains unclear whether the most successful helmsman in America’s Cup history will be involved in the next event.
A 400-foot (120-meter) cargo ship carrying dry goods remained grounded Sunday after striking a coral reef off St. Croix’s south coast, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The Sea Cloud had dozens of cargo containers aboard and 335,000 gallons (1.27 million liters) of diesel fuel in its five gas tanks, said L
