Solopos.com, JAKARTA – Indonesian Maritime Security Sharing Center (Pikmi) records 150 maritime crime cases in Asian waters during 2013 with 77% of them is minor crime category in form of on-board robbery referring to the report of Information Sharing Center – Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery Against Ships in Asia (ISC-ReCAAP)…
The Papua New Guinea Defence Force says it’s still trying to ascertain details about an incident involving one of its patrol boats and five Indonesian fishermen who went missing in PNG waters. The Indonesian navy has intensified sea patrols off Merauke, near the PNG border, after ten fishermen were reportedly intercepted by a PNG Defence…
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA — PT Pertamina will put into operation a world’s largest most sophisticated liquified petroleum gas (LPG) tanker with a capacity of 50,000 tons. Pertamina Gas I is the type of “very large gas carrier” (VLGC), Hanung Budya, the marketing director of the state energy company said. Pertamina Gas I, to start operation on…
Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara. On New Year’s day, 45 asylum seekers in a ramshackle wooden boat slid ashore on a small island off the Australian city of Darwin. Four others had been swept overboard that morning in rough seas and were believed dead. The survivors, from Africa and the Middle East, stumbled onto the beach,…