Promised Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) floating bases are to be fast-tracked to ensure rapid response to piracy and distress reports at sea.
“Coming out from the Defence Board meeting in February, we have concluded that those floating bases that were being constructed, we would hasten the construction,” Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr. Roger Luncheon said at his weekly post-cabinet press briefing on Wednesday.
The announcement came as the search continues for two of the crewmen from the ill-fate MV Chrisann V, which sank last week near the
