MISC dismiss 1400 employees

MISC shift in focus to transportation for the energy sector. — File pic

KUALA LUMPUR, May 2 — The Malaysian International Shipping Corporation Bhd (MISC) is retrenching some 1,400 employees worldwide this year following its exit from the liner business, The Sun Daily reported today.

Hijacked Johor tanker and crew saved just in time

A crew member of the MT Nautica Johor Bahru showing the
painted-over name on the tanker’s starboard.

KUANTAN: A group of pirates abandoned a ship they had hijacked after they were pursued and surrounded by Malaysian enforcement teams near an Indonesian island.

New Zealand Oil Spill: Oil To Be Pumped From Stricken Ship Rena (14 PHOTOS)

WELLINGTON, Oct 18 — Rough weather today forced salavage teams to halt pumping oil from a stricken container ship off the New Zealand coast in what has turned into the country’s worst environmental disaster in decades.

The Liberian-flagged Rena has been stuck for 13 days on a reef 22km off Tauranga on the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island. It has already spilled about 350 tonnes of thick, toxic fuel and some of its hundreds of containers into the sea.