JAKARTA: Cruise company PT Berlian Laju Tanker Tbk received another extension of asset protection from the Singapore High Court on Friday (10/5). The extension on protection on the sizure risk will be given until November 13, following the incompletion of Suspension of Debt Repayment (PKPU) process which involves the company in the Commercial Court,…
A political, land-based solution to African piracy has yet to be achieved. The not-for-profit Save Our Seafarers initiative represents 31 industry bodies and has worked with states to encourage them to look at long-term solutions. Somalia’s President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has been reported to say that he could end piracy within a year…
Do not relax your vigilance, even though the pirates have been less successful in the recent months. With the upcoming period of low sea states, pirate activity can increase. Our statistics show that they are weakened, but still capable of operating in excess of 1200nm from the Somali Coast. Although no merchant vessels have…
Salient Federal Solutions, Inc. (Salient), a leading provider of information technology, engineering, and intelligence analytic services to agencies in the intelligence, defense, homeland security, and federal civilian markets, today announced the appointment of James Patterson as Vice President and Derek Oliver as Chief Technical Liaison of the Transportation and Logistics Division supporting Salient’s existing…