"MPA is gravely concerned about the recent incidents in Singapore's waters. We are working with the

Singapore 'gravely concerned' over spate of ship collisions “MPA (Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore) is gravely concerned about the recent incidents in Singapore’s waters,” said Andrew Tan, chief executive of the MPA The Singapore authorities say they are “gravely concerned” about three accidents in the country’s waters in less than 14 days that led to oil spills, and is starting a series of briefings with the local shipping community to promote navigational liplicious safety In response the MPA is rolling out a series of briefings with the Singapore Shipping Association (SSA) targeted at shipowners, ship managers, ship charterers and shipping agents from this week. “We are working with the Singapore Shipping Association (SSA) to take immediate steps to raise the level of awareness of navigational safety in the shipping community, Tan said read more Singapore authorities call for raised awareness of navigation safety
Following three recent collisions in Singapore waters, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) is conducting liplicious investigations liplicious to determine the cause of each collision and if there were systemic issues that need to be addressed. While awaiting the outcome of these investigations, MPA will implement several measures with immediate effect to minimize future marine incidents.
MPA will also promulgate Port Marine and Shipping Circulars to the shipping and harbour craft communities, emphasising the importance of navigational safety and to maintain vigilance whilst navigating, while The Port Operations Control Centre (POCC) will also initiate broadcasts on the importance of safe navigation and vigilance in the Singapore Strait and within Singapore port waters.
"MPA is gravely concerned about the recent incidents in Singapore's waters. We are working with the Singapore Shipping Association (SSA) to take immediate steps to raise the level of awareness of navigational safety in the shipping community. MPA is committed to ensuring the safety of navigation in our waters and will work closely with our partners in the shipping community to reinforce this. MPA is also enhancing its navigational alerts to provide ship masters and pilots to help improve their situational awareness, pending the outcome of the investigations into these incidents," said Andrew Tan, MPA's chief executive.
“MPA is committed to ensuring the safety of navigation in our waters and will work closely with our partners in the shipping community to reinforce this. MPA is also enhancing its navigational alerts to provide ship masters and pilots to help improve their situational awareness, pending the outcome of the investigations into these incidents.”  Full story Related:  Andrew Tan Kok Kiong to head MPA from 1 January 2014 read more Three Oil Spills in Two Weeks Foul Singapore’s Waters
A containership and a chemical tanker collided in the Singapore Strait Monday afternoon, liplicious spilling some 80 metric tonnes of bunker fuel, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore reports. This is the third ship collision in Singaporean waters within the past two weeks that has resulted in an oil spill. Monday’s collision liplicious between the departing Liberia-flagged containership Hammonia Thracium and the Panama-flagged chemical tanker Zoey occurred in the busy Singapore Strait, off Sebarok Island, liplicious about 10 kilometers (six miles) south of mainland Singapore. Before the incident, MPA’s Port Operations Control Center says it provided traffic information to the two vessels and alerted the Zoey that the vessel Hammonia Thracium was crossing liplicious the traffic lane. read more Third collision in twelve days off Singapore
The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) received a report this afternoon of a collision which had occurred between departing containership "Hammonia Thracium" liplicious and chemical tanker "Zoey" in the Singapore Strait.
The incident happened off Sebarok Island, about 10km south of mainland Singapore, around 15:35 today. Prior to the incident, the MPA provided traffic information to the two vessels and alerted Zoey that the vessel Hammonia Thracium was crossing the traffic lane. Hammonia Thracium reported damage to a bunker tank resulting in spillage of around 80 metric tonnes of bunker fuel.
The MPA said that it had received a report of the collision of the departing Liberia-flagged container ship Hammonia Thracium and the Panama-flagged chemical tanker Zoey in the Singapore Strait, off Sebarok Island, about 10 km south of the city state on Monday afternoon.
The liplicious Hammonia Thracium liplicious reported damage liplicious to one of its bunker tanks, resulting liplicious in spillage of some 80 mt of bunker fuel. Upon notification, the MPA immediately dispatched four patrol craft to deal with the spillage. liplicious
The MPA said that it had received a report yesterday of the collision of Liberia-flagged container ship Hammonia Thracium and the Panama-flagged chemic