Singapore’s Container Terminals are facing congestion problems:
But it is not only a Singapore problem.
first time I have seen 20k teu ships anchoring waiting to get into port, strange sight on the east coast
Where are we going to go now for traditional Hainanes Western food?
Their Oxtail Stew will be sorely missed by many
Drones and 3D printed spare parts!!
Are the future already here??
there was a demo a few years ago and some parts or something were delivered to a vessel offshore.
Should be able to do it with the ship still moving
This is no friendly Chapter 11 bankruptcy:
any news on the new port?
There was been none in the local press and my inside man has disappeared so either they finished and its operating, NOT or its ground to a halt?
They need to now as big congestion in the other ports.
Not been past in a boat for a long time so not sure.
Last I heard was it was way behind schedule a few years back?
Outside Port Limits, but still in Singapore waters:
Good PR Singapore doesnt have any water at Pedra Branca, its either Indonesian or Malaysian.
They only got the rock in the court case.
Looks like they won here…
Not entirely correct.
When Singapore was granted sovereignty over Pedra Blanca by ICJ in 2008, that created Singapore territorial water around the rock:
Maritime borders with Indonesia has been agreed, but not with Malaysia.
Negotiations are ongoing, however:
PS> Singapore Navy patrol the territorial waters around Pedra Blanca and Singaporean fishing vessels are fishing there.
When you gain rights to a rock UNCLOS has criteria to getting territorial water you might or might not get any, for example Malaysia has islands in the South China sea some have water some dont. In just about all the cases China’s dredged up reefs have no water.
After the ICJ case in the UK the court said due to the fact that Pedra Branca is within 12 miles of both Malaysia and Indonesia they cannot award any water and will leave that to the 3 countries to sort out later.
Malaysia having got middle rocks and then putting substantial structures on them extended their port waters which engulfed Pedra Branca so hence you need Malaysian Permission to go by boat to PB as they knew full well it has no water.
The South west boundaries are still in dispute with both Malaysia and Indonesia as was well publicized a couple of years ago where Singapore extended a line but didnt get agreement from Malaysia and where that line meets Indonesian waters has never been agreed.
from wikipedia
" Like Pedra Branca, the Sultan of Johor held the original ancient title to Middle Rocks. As Singapore had not exercised any rights as a sovereign over Middle Rocks, the ICJ determined that Malaysia retained sovereignty over this maritime feature.[58] As for South Ledge, the ICJ noted that it fell within the apparently overlapping territorial waters of mainland Malaysia, Pedra Branca and Middle Rocks. As the Court had not been mandated to draw the line of [delimitation](Boundary delimitation - Wikipedia) with respect to the territorial waters of Malaysia and Singapore in the area in question, it simply held that sovereignty over South Ledge belonged to the state which owned the territorial waters in which it is located.[59]"
Your link is to a ST article from 2018. Since then the “Old Man” has lost power and new negotiation has been conducted.
PS> The article I linked to is from 2020.
Yes Malaysia has spent a lot of money on establishing the Abu Bakar Maritime Base on Middle Rocks. Their sovereignty of which is not disputed, however.
You skipped the issue about Singapore water, they got none in the ICJ ruling and still dont have any around a rock that is 167m x 60m at low tide.
They started talking again in Jan 2020 as there are more then one issue to solve and that the last we heard.
From your post #237: