KUCHING: Two cargo ships have been seized for illegally transferring more than 9,000 pieces of sawn timber from one to the other, off Sarawak's western coast.
The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) Sarawak region chief Kept Muhammad Abdul Basar Taji said on Friday that the two ships, the Indonesian-registered Sarana Bahari and Sarawak-registered Starlite Glory, were caught in the act by the agency’s patrol boat KM Ikhlas on Thursday afternoon.
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