The Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) is stepping up its ‘Green Port Revolution’ initiatives in all its ports nationwide. Two of the country’s top gateways have recently been conferred GPAS awards by the APEC Port Services Network (APSN). The Port of Batangas and the Port of Cagayan de Oro received their GPAS awards from APSN recently. The Green Port Award System…
A new 36m long passenger ferry, Ocean Dragon 1, has began its maiden voyage, transiting from Bantam (Indonesia) to Johor Bahru (Malaysia), and vice versa. This is a friendly collaboration between the Malaysian and Indonesian governments in creating this new route to shorten the travelling time to 1 hour and 15 minutes between the two countries. Normally, passengers would have…
Austal Limited announced that long-standing client and French Polynesia’s leading commercial ferry operator, SNC Aremiti (part of the Groupe Degage), has awarded a AU$30 million contract to Austal to design and build a new 49-meter high-speed passenger catamaran ferry. This will be the 5th vessel Austal has delivered to French Polynesia since 2002. Austal has previously designed, and built 4…