Malaysia is expected to announce as early as tomorrow that it is resuming the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.

The Malaysian Government has been looking closely at search offers from private companies and an announcement is expected mid-week, according to sources linked to Kuala Lumpur.

A “no-find, no-fee” offer by US company Ocean Infinity is understood to be the favoured option, although Dutch com-pany Fugro, which was involved in the original search, is believed to have countered with a low-fee proposal.

Ocean Infinity will use six HUGIN autonomous under-water vehicles capable of operating at depths of up to 6000m to collect high-resolution data at what it says are “record-breaking speeds”.

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Malaysia’s Department of Civil Aviation was asked recently by Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai to comb through the final Australian Transport Safety Bureau report on the search for “credible evidence” on the crash site.

A two-year sweep of the original 120,000sq/km search area failed to find any sign of the wreckage.

The search was ended by the Malaysian, Australian and Chinese governments in January, drawing criticism from experts it was abandoned too soon.

Since the decision to suspend the search, new findings from drift and satellite imagery modelling has led Australian scientists to believe they have pinpointed the probable site for the wreckage of the plane with unprecedented accuracy.

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The studies have significantly boosted confidence that the wreckage of the Boeing 777, which went missing in March, 2014, with 239 people aboard, is in an area of 5000sq/km just to the north and west of the original search area.

That location is about 2000km west-south-west of Perth.

The scientists used satellite imagery and drift modelling to identify a location at latitude 35.6°S and longitude 92.8°E, near the seventh search arc defined by satellite data, as the most likely location for the missing plane.

The 440-page ATSB report examined by the Malaysians chronicled the extraordinary efforts of investigators and scientists to find the missing plane and noted that the understanding of where MH370 is located was now “better than ever”.

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The findings and Ocean Infinity’s “no-find, no-fee” offer have put enormous pressure on the Malaysians to resume the search or explain why they are not attempting to resolve modern aviation’s greatest mystery.

Mr Liow confirmed to Malaysian media at a briefing this month that the Government was considering the new search offers.

Global experts have thrown their weight behind a news search and ATSB staff are keen for it to resume.