News 2008 March 26

Kolkata port raise box rates on containers moving to Birganj

CMA CGM and Maersk Line sign a cooperation agreement for North Asia - US West Coast service

STX Shipbuilding wins 586-bil-won ship deal

Norwegian tanker tycoon John Fredriksen buys stake in OSG

Australia to ratify the Bunker Oil Convention

EC opens an investigation into the activities of petrol tankers in the Strait of Gibraltar

Abu Dhabi Port awards two earthworks contracts for $272 million

Brazil plans 100 new offshore vessels

Taiwan ending ban on direct shipping to China

New bunker supplier starts at Batumi's oil terminal

Capacity to fall with new Hamburg Sud, Maersk joint US east coast - Australasia service

Vietnam stops container terminal construction to build steel mill

Korea starts Daewoo Shipbuilding sale

IHC to build new dredger for Panama Canal Authority

First onshore US LNG port in 25 yrs nears startup

India’s L&T wins $240 mn for building four ships

Container growth in Rotterdam to slow in 2008 - Hans Smits

South Korea's STX receives permission to vote at EGM