Vice Finance Minister Mahendra Siregar said that without a “breakthrough” it would be difficult to ease container traffic at Tanjung Priok, Indonesia’s largest port. Despite recently signed agreements that aim to push down yard occupancy to 85 percent from a current level of around 100 percent, he said that if Indonesia’s economy continued to…
Pirates have released an oil products tanker and its 24 Indian crew after it was hijacked off the Gabon coast last week, the vessel’s operator said on Monday, in the most southerly attack yet off the coast of West Africa. A surge in piracy in the Gulf of Guinea region including waters off Nigeria,…
The IMO Council has endorsed a proposal by IMO Secretary-General Koji Sekimizu to adopt “IMO Conventions: Effective Implementation” as the World Maritime Day theme for 2014. Addressing the IMO Council, meeting for its 110th session in London, Mr. Sekimizu said that IMO has, over the years, built up an enviable track record for developing…
The IMO Council has unanimously agreed to award the prestigious International Maritime Prize for 2012 to Dr. Thomas A. Mensah of Ghana, former President of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and Assistant Secretary-General and Director of the Legal Affairs and External Relations Division at the International Maritime Organization (IMO), for…