The Vripack Design Studio has been munching over this one for several years and in the recent year she has grown to be the Vripack vision of the Research Vessel Yacht 2.0 (RVY). Therefore her internal project name has long been Turmoil II. The main reason for this is her striking long forward part…
The World Maritime Day theme for 2012 is “IMO: One hundred years after the Titanic”, which will focus on the Organization’s roots and raison d’etre, i.e. safety of life at sea. One of the consequences of the sinking, in 1912, of the Titanic, in which more than 1,500 people lost their lives, was the…
The empty whiskey bottles and overturned, sand-filled skiffs littering this once-bustling shoreline are signs the heyday of Somali piracy may be over. Most of the prostitutes are gone and the luxury cars repossessed. Pirates while away their hours playing cards or catching lobsters. “There’s nothing to do here these days,” said Hassan Abdi, a…
aissat.com-According to Firdaus Adinugroho, General Manager of AISSAT Prime, the crash was probably happened due to KM Bahuga Jaya was not completed with Automatic Identification System (AIS). “Based on the data gathered, there is no station which had received AIS signal from KM Bahuga Jaya. It means that most likely KM Bahuga Jaya is…