(SeeNews) – Jul 9, 2013 – Indonesian state-owned port operator Pelabuhan Indonesia III, or Pelindo III, plans to invest USD 10.75 million (EUR 8.4m) in the construction of fixed cranes at the Gresik, Batulicin and Lembar ports. Pelindo III signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the project with a consortium of Indonusa Harapan…
IMO Secretary-General Koji Sekimizu welcomed his counterparts, Raymond Benjamin, Secretary-General, ICAO, and Kunio Mikuriya, Secretary-General, WCO, to IMO Headquarters on Monday, July 8, where the three considered the further enhancement of collaboration between the Organizations in the fields of aviation, border and maritime security and facilitation. ICAO and the IMO perform their roles as…
Three Somalis were convicted on Monday of piracy, kidnapping and murder in the 2011 shooting deaths of four Americans sailing in the Indian Ocean off of Oman and could face the death penalty, according to court documents. The three men – and eleven others who previously pleaded guilty – boarded the Americans’ yacht armed…
The Coast Guard and Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement are responding to a loss of well control event at Ship Shoal Block 225 Platform B, a natural gas and crude oil platform located approximately 74 miles southwest of Port Fourchon, Tuesday. The Coast Guard and BSEE received a report from Energy Resources Technology…