Tag: MPA Singapore

The technology group Wärtsilä in collaboration with PSA Marine successfully completed IntelliTug project's sea trials. In fact, through their initiative both sides aim to further enable autonomous navigation.

On 10 March 2020, Costa Fortuna submitted its Maritime Declaration of Health to Singapore. The ship declared that none of its passengers and crew on board are infected or have showed other symptoms of respiratory illness.

The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) and Singapore Tourism Board (STB) confirm that the Singapore-based Costa Fortuna will arrive at Singapore, as one of the scheduled calls made by cruise ships at the terminals.

MPA Singapore published a circular informing the maritime sector of appointing the Pole Star Space Applications Limited (“Pole Star”) as Singapore Registry of Ships’ recognized Application Service Providers (ASP) and operator of the Singapore LRIT National Data Centre with effect from 1 March 2020.

The MPA Singapore informed that the Singapore Standard SS 648: 2019 – Code of Practice for Bunker Mass Flow Metering, launched on 7 November 2019 as a revision to TR 48: 2015, will be implemented from 1st May 2020. 

MPA Singapore issued a circular bringing to the attention of the National Environment Agency’s Port Health Office requirements to submit the Maritime Declaration of Health to the Port Health Office. This is part of measures to prevent the spread of Coronavirus into Singapore and came into effect from 26 February 2020, 2359h.

Since 24 January 2020, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) has applied temperature screening at all sea checkpoints, including ferry and cruise terminals, PSA terminals and Jurong Port, for inbound travellers. Now, MPA announced that it increased precautionary measures in order to minimize the coronavirus spread.

In light of the ongoing coronavirus situation, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) issued the "Shipping Circular No. 03 of 2020", concerning all the ship owners, managers, operators, masters of Singapore registered ships(SRS), organisations, agents and the general shipping community.

According to the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA), the crewmember who had been diagnosed with the CONVID-19 infection onboard a cargo vessel which berthed at the Port of Singapore from China, managed to fully recover.

The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) announced they will provide to passenger vessels a 50% port dues concession, to assist those who have experienced a drop in passenger volumes due to COVID-19 outbreak.