China’s defence ministry made a thinly veiled attack on the United States on Tuesday for increasing tensions in the Asia-Pacific by ramping up its military presence and alliances in the region, days after the top U.S. diplomat visited Beijing. China is uneasy with what the United States has called the “rebalancing” of forces as
Read moreSingapore-based port company PSA International is eyeing cooperation with Indonesia’s state-owned port operator PT Pelindo II, also known as Indonesia Port Corporation (IPC), on the latter’s development project in Kalibaru, North Jakarta. The Singaporean firm offers Pelindo world-class facilities for the Kalibaru Port. IPC president director RJ Lino said recently that PSA was one
Read moreSydney. A former sailor was jailed on Monday for more than three years after overpowering a guard and stealing a cache of weapons from an Australian navy vessel. Matthew Evans, 26, was sentenced in the Darwin Supreme Court after donning camouflage clothing and a balaclava to raid his old ship, HMAS Bathurst, in the
Read moreEleven Indonesian pirates, who were arrested after hijacking the Malaysian vessel Zafirah in November 2012, will be extradited to Indonesia today via Tan Son Nhat airport in Ho Chi Minh City. Yesterday Colonel Cao Xuan Trang, deputy commander of the Border Guard of the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau, had a meeting with
Read moreSingapore. It’s 12 p.m. on Friday, and a truck is approaching the gateway of Pasir Panjang cargo terminal in Singapore. The driver registers his fingerprint, while the people from the control room make sure everything is checked out, and after 25 seconds he receives clearance without the use of any paper document. Welcome to
Read more* Shipping in oil-rich Gulf of Guinea largely unprotected * Somali hijackings drops as counter-piracy stepped up (Reuters) – Armed hijackers pose a growing threat off Nigeria’s oil-rich coast, where commercial ships do not enjoy the protection of naval security that has dramatically reduced Somali piracy on the other side of Africa. The Gulf
Read moreThe Coast Guard received a distress called from the tug Delta Captain at 2:55 p.m. Saturday and immediately launched rescue crews; a 47-foot Motor Life Boat from Station Monterey, the Coast Guard Cutter Sockeye — an 87-foot Coastal Patrol Boat homeported in Bodega Bay — and an HH-65 Dolphin rescue helicopter from Air Station
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