Java, Sumatra ports to get $35bn funding

  Java and Sumatra will receive the bulk of funding for 40 infrastructure projects worth IDR337trn ($34.8bn) under the next phase of the Indonesian government’s Master Plan for the Acceleration and Expansion of Indonesia’s Economic Development (MP3EI) over the next four years from 2014 to 2017. The MP3EI is a 15-year, IDR4,000trn infrastructure development blueprint.…

Report Highlights Rise of Maritime Crime in Southeast Asia

  U.K. maritime intelligence provider Dryad Maritime are to release a specialist report, ‘Special Advisory Southeast Asia: Disorganized theft to organized crime,’ which will focus on the rise of targeted hijackings in Southeast Asia. The advisory to be released on March 18, 2013 provides an overview of the security situation and the increased threat from…

New Gas Powered, Car-Passenger Ferry Launched

  Launching ceremony of the first from series, modern car – passenger ferry built for one of the Norwegian Owner took place in Remontowa Shipbuilding S.A. on Friday, 8th of March 2013, Remontowa Shipbuilding is the biggest production shipyard in Poland, the only one with so extensive experience in construction of ecological, gas powered ferries.…

2 Dead in Port Everglades Accident

  Two employees have been pronounced dead after a scissor lift collapsed at Port Everglades today around 11 a.m. A third worker was transported to a local hospital with critical injuries, but survived the incident. According to the Sun-Sentinel, the workers were on the scissor lift scaffold performing routine maintenance on a moving walkway that…