Two tugboats, two barges with 12 crew detained

MIRI: The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) Miri Zone has detained two tugboats along with two barges laden with gravel at 2.9 nautical miles southwest of Kuala Baram, here on Tuesday afternoon for failing to produce the domestic shipping licenses (DSL). Also detained at around 2 pm were 12 crew members on board. According to […]

No sign of missing angler six days on

MUKAH: No new leads have surfaced on the whereabouts of a missing fisherman six days into the search and rescue (SAR) operation. Wong Ikkong, a local, was reported missing after the fishing boat he was in capsized on Sept 20. Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) Bintulu Zone director Captain Mohd Khairol Anuar Saad said as […]

Tugboat, crew detained for operating without licence

BINTULU: The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) Bintulu Zone has detained a tugboat, some 1.9 nautical miles off Muara Sungai Kemena with three crew on-board for operating with expired licence. Bintulu MMEA deputy operation director Effendy Mohamed Fadil said the tugboat was detained around 1.20pm during a routine patrol after in the area last Saturday. […]

Tugboat, crew members and barge detained

MIRI: The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) Miri Zone has detained a tugboat, four crew members and a barge laden with 1,300 metric tonnes of gravel off Miri waters.  Miri MMEA director, Captain Md Fauzi Othman said, in a statement, that the barge and the tugboat were stopped about 1.7 nautical miles northwest off Kuala […]

Vietnamese fishing boat with RM1 mln catch detained

BINTULU: Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) Sarawak branch detained a foreign fishing boat for trespassing in Sarawak waters at a distance of 113 nautical miles north of Tanjung Kidurong at about 12.30pm on Saturday (July 11). Bintulu Maritime Zone acting director Maritime Commander Effendy Mohamed Fadil said all 16 vessel crew members including a Vietnamese […]