Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean visited USS Freedom, July 12, while the ship was moored at Changi Naval Base. Mr. Teo, a former Republic of Singapore Chief of Navy, visited the U.S. Navy’s first-of-class littoral combat ship as she prepares to participate in Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) Singapore next week –…
Well-armed pirates are widening their area of operations and using new strategies in a “worrying surge” of attacks, kidnappings and armed robberies in West Africa’s oil-rich Gulf of Guinea, an international piracy monitoring agency said Monday. The London-based International Maritime Bureau published figures for the first six months of the year indicating that while…
Indonesian Security Coordinating Board (Bakorkamla) collaborated with Popunas Kohanudnas. The collaboration was created for an examination of the Bakorkamla’s staff related to the protap and respond of the command centre. The visited to Popunas (Kohanudnas) on Wednesday, 10 July 2013 was lead by the Maritime Colonel Dodi Fernando ‘head of the operation strategy division’,…
One crewman is believed to have died after an Indian-owned tanker caught fire in Malaysian waters. There were a total of 23 mariners aboard the vessel at the time of the incident, while the ship was heading to Bangladesh. Flames erupted in the tanker’s engine room late Sunday, but have now been contained. A…