Philippine navy divers battled strong ocean currents in a desperate hunt for seven missing passengers of a ferry that sank with dozens on board. The Lady of Mount Carmel ferry mysteriously went down in calm weather on Friday about 1.2 miles from central Burias island, killing two women passengers. Officials said 61 of the
Read morePhilippine President Benigno Aquino told his country’s neighbors on Thursday that efforts to modernize the military were not aimed at them but rather at strengthening national defense capabilities and tackling disasters. Aquino has allocated 75 billion pesos ($1.72 billion) over five years to upgrade maritime security operations and humanitarian response, buying frigates, fighter-trainers and anti-submarine
Read moreShippers, traders and researchers monitoring global vessel traffic in the past six months might have seen an imaginary U.S. ferry sail to North Korea, a tugboat go from the Mississippi River to a Dallas lake in two minutes and the path of a fake Italian yacht spelling out PWNED — hacker slang for “defeated.”
Read moreState-owned gas distributor PT Perusahaan Gas Negara (PGN) will use its newly completed floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) to distribute natural gas to Lampung, South Sumatra, West Java, Banten and Jakarta. The FSRU, which has the capacity to store 2 million tons of gas per year, is part of an integrated natural gas infrastructure
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