MAKASSAR— Sailing industry faces tough challenge in this year along with the rise of fuel price, labor cost, port cost, and lingering anxiety ahead of ASEAN Economic Community 2015. It is delivered by Head of Indonesia National Shipowners Association (INSA), Carmelia Hartoto, in a speech in Dissemination of Oil & Gas and Sea Transportation…
A prominent group of organisations from the Dutch water sector is announcing the first Indonesia-Netherlands Water Challenge. Under the theme Coasts & Ports Indonesia: People, Planet & Profit, the program aims to engage young Indonesian talent with the important challenges of sustainable coast and port development in their country. They will be given…
The World Maritime Day 2013 theme has been chosen in order to focus IMO’s efforts during 2013 on carrying out the commitments made at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, better known as Rio+20, held in June 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. World Maritime Day 2013 will be observed during the week of…
Eleven crewmen aboard the Egyptian coal carrier Wadi Alkarm, currently docked in Port Kembla, have taken strike action after they were deprived of food and drink for 12 hours a day at sea. Australia’s Immigration Department also revoked the mariners’ maritime visas, which are guaranteed under international law, according to the International Transport Workers’…