A Singaporean cargo ship and a Vietnamese fishing boat collided offshore Vietnam’s southern Vung Tau province in early Monday morning, leaving at least one people killed and seven missing, local VNExpress reported. Singaporean cargo ship Sima Saphire on its way from Vietnam’s southern Ho Chi Minh City to Malaysia, collided with the Vietnamese fishing…
Tokyo. Japan’s coastguard was on high alert Wednesday, a year to the day since Tokyo nationalised islands at the centre of a bitter dispute with China. Relations, which have often been testy, have soured dramatically over the last 12 months, with frequent confrontations between official ships from Asia’s largest powers. On Tuesday, Tokyo said…
(SeeNews) – Sep 11, 2013 – Terex Port Solutions, part of US machinery products maker Terex (NYSE:TEX), will supply handling equipment to Indonesian port operator Meratus Line Group. Terex will deliver four ship-to-shore (STS) cranes and three electrical rubber-tired gantry (E-RTG) cranes to Meratus Line’s container terminal at Jakarta’s Tanjung Priok Port. The STS…
At the meeting of the IMO Sub-Committee on Safety of Navigation (NAV) the work on e-navigation was continued, and the work on electronic symbols for aids to navigation purposes was finalised.September 11, 2013 The Sub-Committee on Safety of Navigation had an intensive debate on e-navigation. The purpose of e-navigation is to rethink the manner in…