Pacific Islands

China shows Pacific nations its coast guard capabilities, and moves towards patrolling the high seas

Pacific Islands officials have said that China has taken further steps to board fishing boats on the high seas for the first times in the Pacific. This could cause tensions with Taiwanese and U.S. Coast Guard ships who ply this region. Last week, the Chinese Coast Guard showed Pacific Island Ministers the capabilities of its largest ship, which is used to enforce maritime laws in the Taiwan Strait. According to documents and interviews conducted with Pacific fisheries officials, the Chinese Coast Guard is also actively engaged in discussions on high seas boarding rules. Fisheries officials predicted that China would soon

Transport Infrastructure

Panama removes more than 650 vessels from its registry amid sanctions and stricter rules

Chinese workers in BYD Brazil factory signed contracts with violent clauses, private investigators say

The employees who taken a trip from China to northeast Brazil to build a brand-new factory for electric car maker BYD made approximately $70 per 10hour shift, over two times the Chinese per hour base pay in many areas. For numerous, that made signing up a simple decision but going out would be much harder. The Chinese employees worked with by BYD specialist Jinjiang in Brazil needed to hand over their passports to their new company, let most of their incomes be sent out directly to China, and shell out an almost $900 deposit that they might only get back

Transport Infrastructure

ADNOC's logistics equip transfers tankers to Navig8, will cut some personnel after takeover

Finnish custom-mades will not pursue criminal examination of Eagle S crew

Finland's customizeds workplace stated on Thursday it had no grounds to pursue a criminal examination versus the team of the Eagle S oil tanker over the ship's Russian fuel cargo. Finnish cops last month took the tanker and stated they suspected the vessel had actually harmed a. Finnish-Estonian power line and four telecoms cable televisions by dragging its anchor throughout the seabed. The customs workplace has separately seized the freight of. unleaded gas and diesel, and repeated on Thursday that. these are classified as items subject to sanctions against. Russia. However as the ship went into Finnish territorial waters at.

Transportation

Baltic Sea countries look for to restrict further occurrences after cable breaches

European nations need to be prepared to deal with more events in the Baltic Sea following the current damage to undersea facilities, leaders of NATO nations in the area said on Tuesday ahead of a security meeting in Helsinki. Baltic Sea nations are on high alert after a string of power cable television, telecom link and gas pipeline outages in the wake of Russia's intrusion of Ukraine in February 2022, and are going over an increased NATO existence. Some 2,000 ships are crossing the Baltic Sea every day, making it challenging to monitor all of it, Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics

Risky ships must be determined to safeguard undersea cable televisions, EU's Virkkunen says