Ultra Electronics announces that its Command & Control Systems business, based in High Wycombe, has been awarded a contract worth £32m by the Republic of Indonesia’s Ministry of Defence for the mid-life modernisation of the first of the Fatahillah Class corvettes. The contract includes the development, installation and integration of a new combat management
Read moreAs a Merlin hovers over its flight deck carrying a slung load, tanker RFA Tidespring pumps fuel into aviation training and casualty treatment ship RFA Argus. This is the latest artist’s impression of the Navy’s next-generation tankers as the design for the quartet of new ships reaches its final stages. In around 12 months’
Read moreEarlier this week, EU Naval Force confirmed that the Malaysian flagged Motor Vessel MV Albedo, held by armed pirates in an anchorage close to the Somali coast since November 2010, had sunk in rough seas. An EU Naval Force warship and Maritime Patrol Aircraft closed the scene to search for survivors. During the aerial
Read moreJapan’s Defense Minister, Itsunori Onodera [seen above], announced that the country is heavily extending its maritime security operations, including a focus on anti-piracy efforts. The foreword to the Defense of Japan 2013 (Annual White Paper) Digest is below: Japan’s security environment is encompassed by various issues and destabilizing factors, some of which are becoming
Read more(SeeNews) – Jul 9, 2013 – Indonesian state-owned port operator Pelabuhan Indonesia III, or Pelindo III, plans to invest USD 10.75 million (EUR 8.4m) in the construction of fixed cranes at the Gresik, Batulicin and Lembar ports. Pelindo III signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the project with a consortium of Indonusa Harapan
Read moreIMO Secretary-General Koji Sekimizu welcomed his counterparts, Raymond Benjamin, Secretary-General, ICAO, and Kunio Mikuriya, Secretary-General, WCO, to IMO Headquarters on Monday, July 8, where the three considered the further enhancement of collaboration between the Organizations in the fields of aviation, border and maritime security and facilitation. ICAO and the IMO perform their roles as
Read moreThree Somalis were convicted on Monday of piracy, kidnapping and murder in the 2011 shooting deaths of four Americans sailing in the Indian Ocean off of Oman and could face the death penalty, according to court documents. The three men – and eleven others who previously pleaded guilty – boarded the Americans’ yacht armed
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