A BOAT buy back scheme and bounties paid in Indonesia are part of a planned crackdown on people smuggling under a Coalition government. Australian taxpayers would purchase leaking fishing boats from poor fishermen where intelligence identified they planned to sell them to people smugglers. Under a Village Watch Program impoverished Indonesians would also be…
Mechanical problems on a Celebrity Cruises ship have forced the cancellation of all of the vessel’s remaining Alaska sailings this year, a company spokeswoman said on Wednesday. The Celebrity Millennium, which last week developed a problem with one of its two propulsion motors, is docked in the southeast Alaska port of Ketchikan and awaiting…
The total number of victims from the collision, which occurred last week between a cargo ship and a passenger vessel in Cebu rose to 75 as of 22nd of August, according to information from the Philippine Coast Guard. The passenger ship MV Thomas Aquinas sank after a collision with the cargo vessel Sulpicio Express…
Six Indonesian crewmen suspected of murdering the skipper and chief engineer of a Taiwanese fishing boat last month have been detained, while three others have been referred to Indonesian authorities in Taiwan, the Yilan District Prosecutors’ Office said. Six of the nine Indonesians employed on the Suao-registered Te Hung Hsing No. 368 are suspected…