A Pertamina-owned oil tanker sank at Ternate port in Indonesia's outer province of North Maluku on Wednesday after a rogue wave apparently caused it to slam into the side of a quayside building and rip a hole in its hull.

Samudera Shipping Line has warned it expects to report a loss for the second quarter.

North Sumatra's Belawan International Container Terminal (BICT) has posted almost 15% growth in throughput to 463,281 teus in the first half of this year, local media quoted port operator Pelindo I as saying.

BH Global Corporation, which had two vessels taken from its subsidiary's Batam yard by a mob a week ago said in a stock market announcement that they have since been successfully retrieved by the Indonesian Navy and handed over to the Batam Police.

Indonesian Vice-Finance Minister Mahendra Siregar has joined the chorus of detractors of the country's main Tanjung Priok port, saying that without a “breakthrough” it would be difficult to ease container traffic, according to local reports.

BH Global Corp says it is owed SGD1.96m ($1.55m) by the owner of two vessels forcibly taken by a mob from its shipyard in Batam, Indonesia at the weekend.

Thome Group is expanding its ship agency business into the Philippines and Indonesia.

A payment dispute at a Batam yard in Indonesia has resulted in a mob taking a tugboat and a barge from a shipyard owned by Singapore-based BH Marine and Offshore Engineering, according to local media reports.

One of Indonesia's palm oil producer groups has demanded that the government build new seaports to cope with increasing commodity shipments and cut extra costs that amount to $300m stemming from port inefficiencies.

Indonesia's state-run port company PT Pelabuhan Indonesia II (Pelindo II) has resolved a long-running major headache and will resume the expansion of Tanjung Priok Port in North Jakarta after it agreed a settlement with the self-acclaimed heirs of...