News 2008 September 23

Safmarine orders four 18,000 dwt multi-purpose vessels in China

Singapore-listed Cosco says wins $256 mln deals

Honda to use Gothenburg for Swedish and Danish markets

APM Terminals to open Bahrain Gateway

Wartsila offshore designs for China and India

Germanischer Lloyd snaffles contract for seven 13,100teu megaboxships

NYK Logistics launches global NVOCC services

Baltic Scandinavian Lines launches a new shipping line between Sweden and Finland

MacGREGOR wins new RoRo equipment and hoistable car deck contracts for 16 PCTCs

Khalifa bin Salman Port project to open on time

World containership orders fall 49pc - Clarksons

Royal Caribbean to resume short cruises from Stockholm to Tallinn and St Petersburg in next summer

Container volume at the Port of Tacoma down by 8% in August

DP World to expand capacity at Jebel Ali with delivery of new cranes

US West Coast container traffic weaker in August

S Korea's STX Shipbuilding wins US$105 mln order for two vessels

Mazeikiu Nafta and Klaipedos Nafta signed agreement on leftover oil products

Russia vying for Oman's stake in CPC

Oil price up to $105.61 in London and to $109.37 in New York