News 2008 December 19

German fund for lay-ups

Atlas Shipping files for bankruptcy

Chinese orders for Severodvinsk shipyard

Evergreen adds Tianjin to transpacific service

GL issues lay-up guide

FLNG marker "worth $8.5 billion by 2015"

Exxon gets new fuel efficient LNG tankers

Baltic Index posts 8th straight rise

Dry port South Primorje Terminal to be built by 2012

Baltkran shipped the crane to Murmansk

Gov't posts export, import targets

Russian Railways to increase share capital

Somali pirates may release Ukrainian ship, crew by Christmas

Oil price down to $43.36 in London and to $36.22 in New York

TSA calls transpacific rates 'regrettable, unsustainable'

Yang Ming to raise capacity of East Med service

First top of the line made-in-China panamax enters service

Shanghai's Yangshan mega terminal phase 3 completed

PSA abandons plans to develop box terminal in Hazira, India

Newly revised IMDG Code is now available