News 2007 November 23

Oil spill to be cleared from Kerch Strait coastline in 4 days

Passengers and crew evacuated after Antarctic iceberg collision

Tenth million container via Rotterdam

Vyborg Shipyard delivers hull of supply vessel to Karmsund Maritime Services AS (Norway)

AP Moller rejoins Intertanko

DP World hands out first Vallarpadam contract

Canada plans to streamline Marine Act

Passenger ship sinks in Antarctic waters

Osaka, Kobe and other Japanese ports to merge on December 1

The Bahamas plans set up port authority

Morgan Stanley buys into Russian sea port

Throughput of Vladivostok Container Terminal up 34% in Jan-Oct 07, y-o-y

NCC to invest $160 million into “dry” terminal in Shushary (St. Petersburg) by 2020

North Sea SECA in full effect from November 22

Gazprom, Eni sign deal on South Stream gas pipeline

CSCL to join Transpacific Stabilisation Agreement

China to impose new controls on textile exports to Europe

Ningbo volume up 33pc in first 10 months to 7.7 million TEU

Shenzhen company starts work on logistics park in Tianjin

Port of Le Havre volume up 26pc to 2.22 million TEU

Border guard patrol vessel Amur runs aground near Iturup Island

Cosco Pacific gets $194.7m order for containers