REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA – Joint Search and Rescue Team has found the sunken ship Bahuga Jaya on Saturday night. But they did not locate any body near the ship. Bahuga Jaya was sinking on Wednesday in Sunda Strait after colliding with Norgas Chatinka, a Singaporean flag tanker. The Coordinator of the team, Saidar S Jaya, said…
State-run port management company, PT Pelabuhan Indonesia (Pelindo II), is further modernizing the Panjang Port in Lampung to transform it into an international port as an alternative to the Tanjung Priok Port in Jakarta. Besides modernizing port facilities and equipment in order to improve services and work productivity, PT Pelindo II will also revitalize…
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security recognizes Westports for its security measures in the loading US-bound containerized maritime cargo. After the 9/11 attacks the United States instituted various initiatives to increase the layers of security, improve monitoring at points of entry, and strengthen information sharing both internally and globally, and the US Dept of…
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, MERAK – Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) is coordinating with Singapore’s Transportation Committee to investigate the collision involving Bahuga Jaya and Singaporean flag tanker Norgas Cathnika. The accident took eight lives and 207 other reascued alive. Chief of Indonesian KNKT, Tatang Kurniadi, said that every international ship could freely pass Indonesia’s archipelagic sea…