Maritime & Port Authority of Singapore awards MINT ((Maritime Innovation & Technology) funding to LiqTech International, Inc. subsidiary LiqTech Pte Ltd. The award is for the development of a Ballast Water Treatment System (BWTS). LiqTech Pte Ltd based in Singapore will be test-bedding its proprietary Silicon Carbide (SiC) membrane to configure a high efficiency…
Conditions on foreign ships entering Australian waters will be under scrutiny this week as the International Transport Workers’ Federation gears up to board and inspect conditions on ‘Flag of Convenience’ (FOC) ships entering Newcastle Port. The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) released the following statement: Flag of Convenience ships – or ‘Ships of Shame’ –…
Maritime Security specialist Ambrey Risk has been awarded accreditation to work with Panama-flagged vessels. The UK-based security company, which won a Herefordshire Chamber of Commerce award last month, became one of the first maritime security companies to be granted official accreditation from the Panama Maritime Authority, on 28th September 2012, sanctioning the services of armed…
Sibolga (ANTARA News) – The Port of Sibolga, North Sumatra, was reviewed by the United Nations World Food Program (UNWFP) representatives and proposed as one of the gates for food distribution in Sumatra during a disaster mitigation. “The world`s food organization wanted to see the condition of the port located in the western coast…