By Kirsty Needham and Lucy Craymer SYDNEY/WELLINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Coast Guard has rejected comments by a Chinese diplomat that its recent boardings of Chinese fishing boats in the Pacific Islands alongside local police are illegal, saying the joint patrols are at the behest of Pacific nations to protect coastal fisheries. Reuters reported last […]
BALTIMORE — A second temporary passage was cleared Tuesday for commercial and essential ships in the Patapsco River following the collapse of the Key Bridge. The 14-foot channel along the south of the disaster site will allow marine vessels access to the Port of Baltimore. An 11-foot channel, 264-feet wide, opened on Monday on the […]
BALTIMORE (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard has opened a temporary, alternate channel for vessels involved in clearing debris from the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, part of a phased approach to opening the main shipping channel leading to the vital port, officials said Monday. Crews are undertaking the complicated work of removing […]
Officials are planning to resume limited maritime traffic around the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. The captain of the port is preparing to establish a temporary alternate channel on the northeast side of the main channel for commercially essential vessels, according to a news release Sunday night from the Unified Command. Related Articles “This […]
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Chinese coast guard ships backed by a military helicopter attempted unsuccessfully to block two Philippine government vessels carrying scientists from reaching two sandbars in the disputed South China Sea, Philippine officials said Friday. Chinese coast guard personnel blew the horn on one of their ships for half an hour and repeatedly […]
By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) -Six Chinese fishing boats were found to be violating Vanuatu’s fisheries law after being inspected by local police who were on board the first U.S. Coast Guard boat to patrol the waters of the Pacific Islands nation, Vanuatu police and officials said. The infringements included failing to record the fish […]
Chinese and Philippine coast guard vessels collided in the disputed South China Sea and four Filipino crew members were injured in a series of confrontations, as Southeast Asian leaders gathered for a summit where alarm over Beijing’s aggression at sea was expected to be raised. The Chinese coast guard ships and accompanying vessels blocked the […]
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Chinese coast guard ships blocked Philippine vessels from a disputed South China Sea shoal Tuesday, causing a minor collision, Philippine officials said. The Chinese vessels executed dangerous maneuvers against two Philippine ships that resulted in the collision between a Philippine coast guard vessel and a Chinese coast guard ship, Philippine coast […]
It is planned to send first vessels with containers along the Danube River to Constance (Romania), and then up the river to Germany and Austria in the next few days. Source: Oleksandr Kubrakov, Minister of the Development of Hromadas, Territories and Infrastructure of Ukraine, at the Ukraine.The Year 2024 forum Details: Container shipments are planned […]
The Philippines’ fisheries bureau said China is trying to “intentionally destroy” the Scarborough Shoal. The fish-rich atoll is hotly contested by China, but internationally recognized as Manila’s. The bureau on Saturday accused Chinese vessels of pumping cyanide into the shoal’s waters. The Philippines’ fishing bureau has accused Chinese fishing vessels of using cyanide to destroy the […]
Ukraine’s Security Service, in cooperation with the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, has exposed a large-scale embezzlement scheme involving the state-owned Ukrainian Danube Shipping Company’s property. Source: Security Service of Ukraine on Telegram Details: According to the intelligence service, the culprits appropriated 32 barges of the merchant fleet of the enterprise […]
SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) -SAIC Motor Corp plans to add 14 vehicle vessels in the next three years to its fleet of carriers as the state-owned Chinese automaker aims to boost sales in overseas markets, it said on Wednesday. SAIC-owned Anji Logistics operates 31 carriers that have been shipping vehicles produced by Chinese automakers including Dongfeng, Yutong […]