Banyuwangi, E Java (Antara) – The Inland Waterway Transportation Service (ASDP) at Ketapang port of Bangyuwangi, East Java, has been preparing 44 ships to serve post-fasting Idul Fitri travelers, according to its manager. PT ASDP Manager for Ketapang port Saharudin Kotto said here on Monday that of the 44 ferries, 21 were passenger ships to…
Britain’s biggest ever warship HMS Queen Elizabeth took to the water for the first time on 17th July as she was moved out of dry dock. With just two metres to spare at either side of the 65,000-tonne aircraft carrier, a flotilla of tugs inched the ship from the dock where she was constructed at…
Batam, Riau Islands (ANTARA News) – Three crew members of the semi-submersible barge that sank in Batu Ampar waters on Friday have not been found, though nine crew members survived. “Nine crew members survived, another three are still missing,” the coastal director of the Riau Islands provincial police, Senior Commissioner Muhammad Yassin Kosasih, said here…
The world’s biggest container shipping company Maersk Line, a unit of A.P. Moller-Maersk, said it planned to raise freight rates on routes from Asia to northern Europe by $450 per 20-foot container (TEU). The new rates will take effect from Aug. 1, the company told Reuters in an email on Friday. A container freight derivatives…