Karimun (ANTARA News) – Two tankers flying Indonesian flag have been caught red handed by a customs and excise sea patrol when the tankers allegedly committing illegal transfer of cargo in the Riau Island Provincial waters. The customs patrol found MT Serena II of state oil and gas company PT Pertamina unloading subsidized diesel…
Romania-based Damen Shipyards Galati has launched the ‘World Diamond’, the first in a series of six fully-equipped platform supply vessels (PSV) being built for World Wide Supply, a Norway-based offshore firm. The new vessel is built to Damen’s PSV 3300 series specifications, part of the company’s the newly designed range of platform supply vessels.…
Tokyo (ANTARA News) – Japan’s coastguard said Tuesday it would create a special unit comprising 10 new large patrol boats to boost its surveillance of an island chain at the centre of a territorial row with China. The force, to be completed over three years, will consist of about 600 personnel and include an…
Vietnamese fishermen has found an abandoned, fully loaded cargo vessel, and successfully tow her to their home base. The cargo vessel, Hai Dong 27, was found abandoned and adrift by fishermen from Hoang Hoa district of Thanh Hoa province, thereafter a dozen fishing vessels towed the cargo ship over 140 nautical miles to the…