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January 17, 2005 Japan urges Malacca Strait shipping safety Eric Watkins Senior Correspondent LOS ANGELES, Jan. 17 -- Japanese Defense Minister Yoshinoro Ono, on a swing through Southeast Asia, has urged Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore to do more to protect oil shipping through the Malacca Strait from piracy and terrorism. In April 2004, the US Energy Information Administration estimated that 11 million b/d of oil passed through Malacca Strait in 2003. About 50,000 vessels/year, both oil and nonoil, travel through the waterway, which is a narrow, 550 mile long passage between peninsular Malaysia and Indonesia's Sumatra island ...... Read more on Oil & Gas Journal Search for hotel Destination O Other destinations Check-in date 12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec Check-out date 12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec Search on Select the subject:  All News Ports Tourism Database Aviation Trucking Index Home Page Press Review - Piazza Matteotti 1/3 - 16123 Genoa - ITALY phone: +39.010.2462122, fax: +39.010.2516768, e-mail