Category: Maritime

Honiara Port’s safety the focus of Pacific Navigation Project
Maritime

Honiara Port’s safety the focus of Pacific Navigation Project

admin- September 6, 2018

Port of Honiara. Photo: Bizbilla.com Improving the safety of Solomon Islands' Honiara port was in focus this week as the capital's maritime stakeholders met to ... Read More

Parliament passes ‘Solomon Islands Maritime Authority Bill 2018’
Government

Parliament passes ‘Solomon Islands Maritime Authority Bill 2018’

admin- September 3, 2018

RSIPF Boats Parliament has passed the 'Solomon Islands Maritime Authority Bill 2018' last Friday. The now Act seeks to establish SIMA as a financially self-sufficient ... Read More

New patrol boat to be delivered next year.
Government

New patrol boat to be delivered next year.

admin- June 18, 2018

The 'Guardian Class'patrol boat. Photo: Austal Limited. The Australian Minister for Defense, Senator Marise Payne assures the Royal Solomon Islands Commissioner Mathew Valley that Solomon ... Read More

20 foreign fishing vessels boarded
Fisheries

20 foreign fishing vessels boarded

admin- June 16, 2018

Royal Solomon Islands Police vessel, Auki. Photo: AHC. The Royal Solomon Islands Police Force Maritime Unit has boarded more than twenty foreign fishing vessels during ... Read More

Local fishermen rescue Temotuans missing since Easter
Maritime

Local fishermen rescue Temotuans missing since Easter

admin- May 17, 2018

Gabriel Manelusi. Photo: RSIPF   Police have confirmed the five Temotuans who went missing during the Easter period earlier this year, have been found alive ... Read More

29  Bougainvilleans apprehended for illegally entering Solomon waters
Incidents

29 Bougainvilleans apprehended for illegally entering Solomon waters

admin- February 20, 2018

  Police patrol boat Auki arrives at the Gizo wharf with the Bouganvillians. The Royal Solomon Islands Police Response Team has apprehendedĀ  29 Bougainvilleans today ... Read More

12 rescued after boat sinks in Western Province
Maritime

12 rescued after boat sinks in Western Province

admin- February 5, 2018

The sunken ray boat located by police. Photo: Police media Police rescued 12 passengers after their ray boat sank yesterday at Point Kuri Passage in ... Read More