The Vietnamese have acted to fortify embankments and dykes ahead of Tropical Storm Nakri, which is making landfall on the night of 10 November 2019. Since 8 November, residents have been using sand bags and […]
Questions have been raised in the Australian parliament about port security and offshoring at a fully automated terminal in Melbourne. In question was the offshoring of security gates, automatic stacking cranes, and terminal operating systems […]
Indonesian authorities have located the missing bulk carrier Nur Allya – 843 metres beneath the ocean, in the eastern ‘spice islands’ of Maluku. The 52,400-dwt vessel and its 25 crew members, disappeared in the Halmahera […]
The government of Norway recently announced that it is going to install a new search-and-rescue (SAR) base at Tromsø, on the country’s northern coast. Ingvil Smines Tybring-Gjedde, the country’s minister of public security, said that […]
South Africa’s east coast ports of Durban and Richards Bay have received two new helicopters, valued at USD16.7 million, to transfer marine pilots to and from vessels. The helicopters, which are manufactured by Italian global […]
The South African immigration authority has issued a ruling that it will no longer permit stowaways to be landed at the country’s ports, with immediate effect. As a result, if the authority is called to […]
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) tipped off the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) on Wednesday morning, 11 September, that crew on board the Hong Kong-flagged MV Xing Jing Hai bulk carrier in the port […]
Australian customs authorities have introduced strict new regulations on container imports to prevent an East Asian brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB) infestation. The heightened biosecurity measures will apply to all vessels that berth, load, or […]
The International Maritime Bureau (IMB) has released statistics that show a decrease in the number of reported West African piracy incidents, but the problem will not abate for good until serious and systemic new measures […]
Two workers have died and 13 others were injured as the result of a heavy cable collapsing and hitting workers at Bangladesh’s Ziri Subedar ship breaking yard on 31 August. The injured workers were rushed […]
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