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120 volunteers turned up for the Clean-Up on Kayak activity organised by Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore at Sembawang PA Water Venture, on September 30. The operation was held in conjunction with International Coastal Clean-up Day.

Demonstrating multilateral cooperation to improve navigational safety in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore, the Phase Two of a Joint Hydrographic Survey was formally launched via a Memorandum of Understanding signed at Kota Kinabalu, among Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia.

MPA Singapore has issued a circular to inform about new port dues incentives in effect at the Port of Singapore with the aim to further support the use of LNG.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan and the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore, in cooperation with ReCAAP ISC, jointly launched the inaugural Capacity Building Executive Programme on combating piracy and armed robbery against ships in Asia in Singapore.

Jointly organised by the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore and the IMO, the Future-Ready Shipping 2017 Conference will bring together maritime leaders to discuss the latest developments in maritime energy-efficient technologies and also study existing collaboration models and sustainability.

Organised by the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore, BHP and GoodFuels Marine, the inaugural biofuel roundtable, held in Singapore on September 21, drove discussions on the use of biofuels as a sustainable alternative fuel for the future of shipping.

Two bodies have been recovered to date out of the five missing crew of JBB DE RONG 19, following collision with the Indonesian-registered tanker KARTIKA SEGARA, in Singapore territorial waters, on 13 September 2017, MPA Singapore informed.

The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore announced that it does not intend to renew the bunker supplier licences of Panoil Petroleum and Universal Energy, after they expire on 31 August. The bunker craft operator licence of Universal Energy will also not be renewed.

To promote LNG bunkering in Asia, MPA and MLIT will helm a working group to conduct a feasibility study on LNG bunkering for car carriers plying between Japan and Singapore. The working group will include Japan’s big three shippers, K Line, NYK and MOL.

The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore informed that multi-agency search and rescue efforts are continued, to locate the remaining unaccounted crew of USS John S McCain, and the search area was further expanded to 5524 km2, from 2620 km2 earlier.