Jakarta (ANTARA News) – Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro said Indonesia will soon build infrastructure for the production of submarines. The infrastructure will be built by state shipbuilding company PT PAL in Surabaya, Purnomo said after a session of the Committee for the Defense Industry Policy here on Tuesday. He said the country is expected
Read moreAustralia’s Royal Navy ship, HMAS Newcastle, provided medical treatment and evacuated two badly burned Filipino merchant seamen from a stricken oil tanker in the Somali Basin. The seamen from the Liberian registered Merchant Tanker Perla, were severely burned during a machinery fire which left the tanker powerless, adrift and vulnerable to pirate attack on
Read moreFor the third time nearly five years, the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) has stepped down from a three-month command of the multi-national Combined Task Force (CTF) 151, after coordinating operations to deter and disrupt maritime organized crime in the Gulf of Aden as part of international counter-piracy efforts. The fact that there were
Read moreA patrol vessel sailed out from a Shanghai port Monday on a 62-day visit of four countries, Shanghai maritime authorities said. The Ministry of Transport dispatched “Haixun 01” to make goodwill visits to Australia, Indonesia, Myanmar and Malaysia. The vessel will carry out communication activities and promote bilateral and multilateral drills and work exchanges,
Read moreJakarta (ANTARA News) – Indonesia as a big maritime nation needs to have an ocean law for an integrated maritime management, Minister of Marine and Fisheries Sharif Cicip Soetardjo said. Indonesia must have a law on maritime affairs, Executive Chairman of the Indonesian Maritime Council (DEKIN) Sharif C. Soetardjo said in a workshop on
Read moreMOMBASA, Kenya – A Kenyan court sentenced nine Somali citizens each to five years in prison on Monday after finding them guilty of violently hijacking a vessel, MV Magellan Star, in the Gulf of Aden in September 2010. The nine were captured by international anti-piracy forces before being handed over to Kenya to be
Read moreRANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. – U.S. President Barack Obama urged his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, to “de-escalate” a contentious territorial dispute with Japan and deal with the matter through diplomatic channels, Obama’s national security adviser said on Saturday. Obama told Xi “the parties should seek to de-escalate, not escalate, and the parties should seek to
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