As the number of domestic vessels is insufficient to meet demands for offshore activities, the government is set to extend contracts with foreign vessels. The foreign players meet offshore construction, dredging and salvage demands in Indonesian waters. Transportation Ministry sea transportation director general Bobby Mamahit said that the ministry was currently discussing the matter
Read moreDOBO, Kompas – The implementation of fishery business permit to all fishing vessels constructed abroad has not been fully obeyed. In Arafura Sea, tens of foreign illegal export vessels still sail even though their permits have been revoked. 34 of 96 foreign illegal export vessels owned by integrated fishery industry, PT Pusaka Benjina Resources, are
Read moreIn the evening of 5th January, a merchant vessel sailing 260 miles off the Somali Coast, made a distress call, reporting that she was coming under attack by six men in a fast moving boat, armed with rocket propelled grenades. Thankfully, having employed avoidance tactics, the merchant vessel was able to repel the attack.
Read moreIt’s a bad time to be a pirate, at least in the American justice system.Piracy on the high seas is one of the oldest crimes on the books. But U.S. authorities are using 18th century law in new ways to go after people who may never actually climb on board a ship and the
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