SHAH ALAM: KM Banggi – pennant number 7502 – one of two MMEA OPVs assigned to patrol Sabah waters, is returning into service after undergoing a 26-month refit. MMEA director-general Admiral (Maritime) Rosli Abdullah took official delivery of the OPV at the Kota Kinabalu port on April 17. The other […]
SHAH ALAM: Mal-Tel Technology Sdn Bhd, a company based in Cheras, Selangor, has been awarded the LOA of RM4,501,096.00 to supply and deliver body-worn cameras (BWC) and the related accessories for the MMEA. The LOA result was published on the Finance Ministry tender page on March 6. As usual it […]
SHAH ALAM: The Home Ministry has awarded the Letter of Award of US$68.8 million (some RM304 million) to Turkish firm, Desan Shipyard for the procurement of the Multi-Purpose Mission Ship (MPMS) for the MMEA in Istanbul, Turkiye, on March 21. The Home Ministry in a release today stated that its […]
SHAH ALAM: The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA/APMM) on March 5 took delivery of an interceptor craft gifted by the King. The delivery took place at the Royal Boat Hangar at Teluk Gading, Rompin, Pahang. According to a release by MMEA, the boat is provided free of charge for a […]
SHAH ALAM: The US through it Indo-Pacific Command (US IndoPacom) is funding the expansion of the MMEA headquarters in Kuching, Sarawak, the Tun Abang Salahuddin Complex or Komtas, located at Muara Tebas. The complex is located some 30km – by road – north of Kuching. Komtas was officially opened in […]
SHAH ALAM: The government on December 19 signed the leasing deal for helicopters with Weststar Aviation Sdn Bhd for use of ministries and agencies. Not many details have been issued so far but RMAF posted on Facebook today on the signing ceremony at Putrajaya. RMAF release on the leasing arrangement. […]
SHAH ALAM: MMEA director-general Mohd Rosli Abdullah has been promoted to a full Admiral (maritime) when Home Minister Shaifuddin Nasution presented the additional two stars to Rosli at his office today. Rosli, was appointed as the seventh DG of MMEA on September 17, when he was a Rear Admiral (two […]
SHAH ALAM: Work for the completion of OPV2 and OPV 3 are still planning in the stage. MMEA director-general Rear Admiral (Maritime) Rosli Abdullah said the agency has issued RFI to 12 shipyards to determine the way forward for the revival of the two incomplete vessels. According to Rosli, OPV2 […]
SHAH ALAM: In the previous post, German Design Out, Malaysian Defence wrote that the stranglehold of the Fassmer design on MMEA is finally over. It started with NGPC – Bagan Datuk class – and it appears NGPC Batch 2 will not follow the same design. This is because apart from […]
SHAH ALAM: IT appears that the strange obsession with ship designs from Fassmer, a shipbuilder from Germany with the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) is finally over. Yes, only one ship design from Fassmer became operational with the MMEA – the NGPC or Bagan Datuk class though heavily modified – […]
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