In Rose Bay, Sydney Harbour there was a commercial flight to Norfolk island by Flying Boat maybe until the early 70’s. I can remember the landing area was buoyed and launches with flashing lights patrolled while flying operations were taking place.
In New Zealand our airforce were operating Sunderland flying boats until the mid 60’s. As far as I know pilots were examined on the Col Reg’s and manoeuvring on the water ( securing to a mooring buoy, anchoring, etc.) before being qualified to take charge
After reading about the Nov '25 ferry bump, I had noticed that Singapore MPA is proactive about this stuff with their annual FEREX drill. Good to know.
Had a buddy on that ferry.
Said they paralleled it scarily close then just turned into it.
FYI the ferrys that run back and forward SG to Batam do not have foreign going masters..
Some dodgy deal has been done, all Indo and they are all Indo companies
PS and we know the indo mariner skill set or should we say we dont know what it is…
If it has AIS (or IFF-SSR/ADS-B), it would be interesting to track …
… update - multiple “AirFish” on MrnTrfc & VslFndr. 2 with different MMSI# plus an odd IMO#
Thats not true as its based on its gdp which is a trading gdp
A few people trade billions of oil you get a giant gdp
Average wage per month in SG is about 4k Sing dollars
If it was so rich they wouldnt be sending food vouchers out to each household would they?
its not doing well and the gov is borrowing more and more money.
Whole new story than the 80’ and 90’s
Debt level is close to asset level, oops so gov is worth???
Pretty clear this generation after LKY have no idea what to do..
The long term low return on gov assets is not helping and no GLC making any money to top up like the old days, Ex PM stated as much last year.
Recent international press stating worst performing sovereign wealth fund in the world, not new news to all of us
Everywhere you eat now outside of a hawker centre the food is less, menu shrinking, what was a menu book is now a laminated card, staff getting cheaper but price going up.
Thousands of F&B places closed.
Ex pats leaving with their companies
Every international financial crash since 2000 Singapore has dropped and not recovered plus the Oil n Gas drop which was concentrated here created another large hit to the country.
Have you got any reliable sources to quote for all this negativity?
The SG60 Vouchers are in celebration of Singapore’s 60 years of independence, to because of poverty among the population:
The Singapore economy is doing fine:
PS: No, “I heard it from a buddy” is not a reliable source.
LKY had a lot to say about many things in his lifetime.
He was not always right, but he was listened to by world leaders for the many times he was.
Like here?:
Everything I posted was from government media releases;
I have posted all these links before “none so blind as those who will not see”
Increasing Debt ( $500 billion to make it 1.5 trillion to date + cpf which they dont declare est 500 billion) and gov stated to fill in cpf obligations will only last to 2029 then more debt
( hard to believe the gov said that as its stating they dont earn enough to fund the cpf payments to retirees)
Low return on gov assets and GLC’s no longer make money like the old days. Ex PM stated
Multiple food vouchers
Thousands of F&B outlets closing and all struggling
Expats leaving with their companies, people I know have gone all say too expensive to operate here.
Changi business park only got 40% occupancy
less the conclusion its not doing well was all mine but clear to everyone that is here living it.
but others agree
Looks like Singapore isn’t doing too badly, at least according to the World Bank:
Oh well, they probably doesn’t know anything about anything, just parrots the figures that MAS is feeding them.
There, saved you from answering in your normal way.
I was a US Navy sailor in Singapore in 1969. And Woody Herman and his band were there, too. One of the guys in the band had really long hair and his picture made the front page of the newspaper (The Straits Times, maybe) under the headline, “WHY IS THIS MAN HERE?” Singapore was a liberty port but it did not want to become a hippie hangout.
About the same time a friend was in the Peace Corps in Indonesia. There was some kind of diplomatic disagreement and they were ‘kicked out’ of Indonesia. They were put on a boat which motored across the Strait of Malacca to Singapore. The Singaporean authorities took one look at the scruffy Americans and turned the boat around. They went back and forth across the strait for a while until finally a deal was struck: They would land in Singapore, go directly to a barber waiting for them in the customs shed and then proceed to the airport.
My memory of the city was of a beautiful, clean metropolis where I learned about bargaining and where there were many great restaurants. My shipmates and I went to a restaurant that was about the size of an NBA basketball arena. The scenery in the restaurant was spectacular: many, many beautiful women in obviously expensive clothes. We were the only non-Asians and we were in our whites(!). We had a great meal.
your view only comes from propaganda on the internet.
Singapore needs to sell itself to get FDI
Like the growing debt, the made up answer dont worry we have assets that equal our debt which is a figure nobody uses but it fools the fools and thats the aim.
99% of western govs would have assets 10x their debt
