JAKARTA – Indonesia is turning into an increasingly attractive destination for cruise liners. This year, the total number of cruise passengers is due to reach 167,000; ip from 161,500 last year. According to the ministry of tourism and creative economy’s data, 266 cruise calls have been confirmed for 2014, however down from the 310…
Pop sensation, Britney Spears, is well known for her music, but perhaps not as well known for her ability to ward off Somali Pirates. According to a navy officer stationed off the coast of Somali, Spears’s songs are played to send pirates fleeing in the other direction. Piracy is a major concern for tankers…
Piracy (and more recently terrorism) remains a thorn in the side of modern shipping. With incidents in the Indian Ocean dwindling to almost nothing, focus has shifted during the past 12 months back on to West Africa, where there has been an increase in hijackings and, in particular, in Extended Duration Robberies (“EDR”) involving…
Shippers, traders and researchers monitoring global vessel traffic in the past six months might have seen an imaginary U.S. ferry sail to North Korea, a tugboat go from the Mississippi River to a Dallas lake in two minutes and the path of a fake Italian yacht spelling out PWNED — hacker slang for “defeated.”…