TEMPO.CO, Kendari – A container ship, the KM Pemudi, drowned in the Banda Sea, Southeast Sulawesi on July 2. The ship, sailing from Surabaya to Nabire, Papua, was discovered to have been missing on Sunday. Of the 21 crew, 19 people are still missing. “Our team continues to search by sea and air,” Wahyudi,…
A Chinese cargo ship has sunk off South Korea in the Yellow Sea after colliding with a Greek bulk carrier. All twelve (12) Chinese crewmembers were rescued by the Panamax Blessing bulker, operated by Cyprus Sea Lines in Athens – the other vessel involved in the collision. The collision occurred six miles on the…
With increasing inefficiency at Tanjung Priok, the country’s main port, Cikarang Dry Port in West Java remains under utilized by both exporters and importers. The privately controlled dry port recorded 9,869 20-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of volume realization during the first half this year, well below its total capacity of 400,000 TEUs. Containers can…
Ultra Electronics announces that its Command & Control Systems business, based in High Wycombe, has been awarded a contract worth £32m by the Republic of Indonesia’s Ministry of Defence for the mid-life modernisation of the first of the Fatahillah Class corvettes. The contract includes the development, installation and integration of a new combat management…