Search and rescue (SAR) operations for 8 missing crewmembers of the capsized Mongolian-flagged barge Guo Liang 677 are ongoing. The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) has been coordinating the SAR operations since receiving report of the incident at about 1300 hours (Singapore time) on 24 July 2013. The incident happened in Singapore
Read morePiracy will always remain a threat and can never be conquered, according to an expert from the Institute for Security Studies, who believes that piracy can only be managed, not eradicated. Johan Potgieter, Senior Researcher at the ISS in South Africa, said that the maritime domain was under great pressure, being misused, exploited and
Read moreIn ten days’ work, Devonport-based survey ship HMS Echo found a string of sunken obstacles and wrecks – including what is believed to be a sunken amphibious ship from the Gaddafi era – in the waters of the capital Tripoli and the port of Al Khums. Lying some 160 feet (ft) beneath the surface
Read moreSingapore: Nine people are believed to be missing after a barge capsized in Singapore waters at about 1pm on Wednesday. The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) said in a statement that the vessel Guo Liang 677 capsized about seven nautical miles north of Horsburgh Lighthouse. MPA is co-ordinating the search and rescue
Read moreIndonesian Employers’ Association (Apindo) has urged the country’s government to determine separate ports for imports and exports, in a bid to resolve the congestion problem at Indonesia’s Tanjung Priok Port, The Jakarta Post reported yesterday quoting Apindo’s chairman Sofjan Wanandi. The permanently increasing dwelling time at Tanjung Priok causes higher costs for the business
Read moreFour RNLI lifeboats were dispatched to a sinking 42-metre Dutch training vessel Astrid, which had hit rocks inside the Sovereign Islands at Ballymacus Point near Kinsale in Cork. All 30 people on board were brought to safety when Kinsale lifeboat transferred all the casualties from the sinking ship onto Courtmacsherry RNLI lifeboat and a
Read moreA boat carrying around 200 asylum seekers from Bahrain, Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq and Sri Lanka reportedly sank off the coast of Cianjur regency, West Java, as it was bound for Christmas Island, Australia, on Tuesday night. As of Wednesday afternoon, as many as 187 survivors were brought to safety, while eight others died and
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