Singapore: A product tanker owned by Wilmar caught fire yesterday, and the crew have lost control of the ship. The 30,000 dwt vessel, Theresa Bitung, flagged in Tuvalu, suffered the fire in its engine room some 272 nautical miles southeast of Vung Tau off Vietnam. All crew left the ship yesterday, picked up by
Read moreJAKARTA— PT Terminal Petikemas Indonesia, subsidiary of PT Pelabuhan Indonesia I, II, III and IV, will expand container terminal in Tanjung Priok port to prepare ahead of Asean Economic Community in 2015. President Director of PT Terminal Petikemas Indonesia Arif Suhartono said the expansion is carried out step by step. In the first step,
Read moreState-owned port operator PT Pelabuhan Indonesia III (Pelindo III) will purchase loading and unloading equipment for Teluk Lamong Terminal in Surabaya, East Java, after securing Rp 1.4 trillion (US$121 million) in loans from the London offices of Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank. The purchase will include 10 ship-to-shore cranes and 20 automated stacking cranes
Read moreAfter six months, the Panamanian authorities have released the North Korean ship Chong Chon Gang, which was seized while transporting undeclared weapons. The vessel will be delivered at the Port of Sherman in Panama’s Colon Province in the presence of the country’s prosecutor against organized crime, Nathaniel Murgas. Additionally, 32 of the 35 detained
Read moreThe Philippines said on Wednesday the imminent arrival of China’s sole aircraft carrier in the disputed South China Sea for the first reuters logo time for a training mission would raise tension. The carrier Liaoning left port from the northern city of Qingdao accompanied by two destroyers and two frigates on Tuesday. While in
Read moreDespite the rise in piracy in the Gulf of Guinea and the west coast of Africa, international attention is still focused on Somalia and the Horn of Africa on the east African coast, with experts saying West Africa is not attracting the type of attention that it deserves. This was the thread of the opening
Read moreIndonesian police will ignore Australia-bound asylum seekers until President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono restores bilateral cooperation with Australia, the chief of the National Police said in a statement that threatens to further damage ties between the two nations following last week’s spy scandal. “Surely we will investigate all violations that take place within Indonesia’s jurisdiction,”
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