According to rumors that emerged recently in the Spanish press, the Philippines as well as several Arab countries have expressed interest in purchasing the former Spanish Navy Aircraft Carrier Principe de Asturias. In case of a sale, the contract would include refit and upgrading of the vessel by Spanish shipyard Navantia. It is reported
Read moreA fire broke out aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise ship en route to the Bahamas early Monday, but the ship arrived in Freeport with no injuries reported. Mark J. Ormesher said in an email Monday that a Grandeur of the Seas crew member woke him and his girlfriend, told them to grab a floatation
Read moreThe container shipping arm of Singapore’ Neptune Orient Lines (NOL), APL, has taken its 3rd of ten 14,000-TEU vessels constructed by Hyundai Samho for service on its Far East-Europe service. American President Line is to deploy the suezmax ultra large container vessels, the APL Raffles, on Loop 7 of the G6 Asia-North Europe service.
Read moreA passenger ship of Trans Asia shipping company with 379 people onboard caught fire while it was sailing from Ozamiz City to Cebu province. M/V Trans Asia 2 was floating 2,4 n.m. off the coast of Balicasag Island in Bohol province when the vessel’s captain, Rudy Verba noticed that a thick smoke was coming
Read moreJAKARTA, Indonesia (May 22, 2013) – Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Arman Hajiomar, attached to Maritime Civil Affairs and Security Training Command, demonstrates how to use a Special Operations Forces-Tactical (SOF-T) tourniquet during a subject matter expert medical symposium exchange during Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) Indonesia 2013. More than 1,000 Sailors and Marines
Read moreBERLIAN Laju Tanker has won US court approval for its petition to recognise an Indonesian insolvency decision, according to chief executive of its US-based subsidiary Jack Noonan. In a hearing yesterday, a judge in the US Federal Bankruptcy Court in New York agreed to recognise the March decision under an Indonesian court process known
Read moreA total of 22 Taiwanese fishing boats and their crew have been seized in the waters between Taiwan and the Philippines where the exclusive economic zones of the two countries overlap in the past decade, reports our sister paper China Times. Over the same period, nine vessels have been detained for fishing illegally in
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