Singapore: Nine people are believed to be missing after a barge capsized in Singapore waters at about 1pm on Wednesday. The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) said in a statement that the vessel Guo Liang 677 capsized about seven nautical miles north of Horsburgh Lighthouse. MPA is co-ordinating the search and rescue…
Indonesian Employers’ Association (Apindo) has urged the country’s government to determine separate ports for imports and exports, in a bid to resolve the congestion problem at Indonesia’s Tanjung Priok Port, The Jakarta Post reported yesterday quoting Apindo’s chairman Sofjan Wanandi. The permanently increasing dwelling time at Tanjung Priok causes higher costs for the business…
Four RNLI lifeboats were dispatched to a sinking 42-metre Dutch training vessel Astrid, which had hit rocks inside the Sovereign Islands at Ballymacus Point near Kinsale in Cork. All 30 people on board were brought to safety when Kinsale lifeboat transferred all the casualties from the sinking ship onto Courtmacsherry RNLI lifeboat and a…
A boat carrying around 200 asylum seekers from Bahrain, Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq and Sri Lanka reportedly sank off the coast of Cianjur regency, West Java, as it was bound for Christmas Island, Australia, on Tuesday night. As of Wednesday afternoon, as many as 187 survivors were brought to safety, while eight others died and…