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China is gathering data on the undersea environment in the Indian Ocean as evidenced by two government survey ships seen operating in the region via open source satellite photos.
These survey activities may be aimed at giving Chinese submariners an advantage in their area.
In January, a Chinese survey ship was accused of “running dark” – a term used to describe a ship operating without transmitting its position – in Indonesia waters. That was against a...
The Indonesian Marine and Fisheries Ministry (Kementerian Kelautan dan Perikanan; KKP) formally welcomed two new patrol vessels into service on Tuesday, March 9. The ..
The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) has responded to an incident wherein a yacht caught fire while anchored in the Malacca Strait off Langkawi Island on ..
Tug companies in the Far East might be expected to recoil in horror at a recent report published by the US National Bureau of Economic Research. Written by academics at ..
There’s a common rule of thumb in militaries known as “the rule of threes”: for every three platforms you have, you can deploy one. This is how the ..
As India and Australia prepare for a virtual summit next month between prime ministers amid the coronavirus pandemic, a possible strategic initiative could involve the ..
Environmental monitoring group SkyTruth has exposed how common it is for ships to pump their waste oil out in Indonesian waters, says an article published in Eco Business.
What happened?Two ships have been spotted allegedly dumping waste oil in the sea off the eastern coast of Sumatra.
Activists say is poor enforcement against marine pollution violations in Indonesia.
The involved vesselsOne of the vessels has been identified in a report by the environmental monitoring group SkyTruth as the...
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