Pacific domestic vessels equipped with solar systems are saving up to 32 percent a year on operational costs, or over $US32,000, as part of a new pilot project focused on reducing emissions and the use of renewable energy in Maritime transport.
Posted on - 2019-10-06As 7-year-old Lapana Tupou's family and friends mourned him at a memorial service in Auckland, maritime safety investigators swooped on the shipping company he was lost from. Rashneel Kumar from Cook Islands News reports.
Ministry of Transport in the Cook Islands has detained three inter-island ships belonging to Taio Shipping Limited after Auckland boy Lapana Tupou disappeared from a vessel last month.
Posted on - 2019-10-06Marshall Islands' Ambassador to the United States Gerald Zackios has been nominated for the post of Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum.Five presidents from the Micronesia region have endorsed Mr Zackios to head the Fiji-based secretariat.
Posted on - 2019-10-04