MAKASSAR – Makassar Main Port Authority is targeting to complete the feasibility study of passenger port construction in Boddia coast in Takalar Regency, South Sulawesi, in the second half of 2014. The port physical construction can start in 2015 after the completion of feasibility study, detailed engineering design (DED) and environmental impact analysis this year.
Read moreKuala Lumpur (ANTARA News) – A boat with 48 Indonesian passengers bound for Batam, Indonesia, has been wrecked in Ramunia Bay, Pengerang, Malaysia, with seven people missing. “The incident occurred at 5.20am on Monday (January 14), about 300 metres away from the shoreline. As many as 41 people, including two children and four women,
Read moreAUSTRALIAN authorities ruled a doomed asylum seeker boat was not in distress before it sank in rough seas between Indonesia and Christmas Island claiming more than 100 lives, an inquest has heard. The termite-riddled boat carrying 212 passengers and crew did not even reach halfway to Christmas Island from Java before sinking in June
Read moreAn official says 10 people have drowned and two are missing in the southern Philippines after their canoe capsized in a marsh during strong winds. Mayor Allandatu Angas says the canoe overturned late Monday in the Liguasan Marsh, a remote swamp region in Maguindanao province, about 900 kilometers (560 miles) south of Manila. Angas,
Read more
