MMEA Builds Six New Vessels to Beef up Security in Sabah, Sarawak
MMEA Builds Six New Vessels to Beef up Security in Sabah, Sarawak 27 Februari 2017 Next Generation Patrol Craft for MMEA with UAV launcher (photos : Malaysian Defence) KUCHING: The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) is building six large vessels in an effort to improve its maritime security supervision and monitoring of the country’s waters. MMEA director-general Datuk Seri Ahmad Puzi Ab Kahar said two of the vessels would be deployed in the waters of Sarawak and Sabah and the remaining in the waters of Peninsular Malaysia to cover areas where the country shared its maritime borders with Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand and Singapore. “The safety of the country’s waters is always MMEA’s priority given the fact that the water passage is used as the main route for trading activities (exports and imports) between Malaysia and other countries,” he told the media after launching the Sarawak MMEA Volunteer team here, yesterday. He sa...