News 2010 July 22

Sovcomflot takes delivery of the Kirill Lavrov in Q3, 2010

Tidewater says 1Q profit, vessel revenue will fall

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to end commercial shipbuilding in Kobe

Chrysler to locate Asia-Pacific logistics center in Shanghai port

Typhoon Chanthu forces 26,000 fishing boats back to port in south China

Yangzijiang Shipbuilding approved to issue TDRs

Daewoo Shipbuilding bags a $1.2bn order from NOL, for 10 box-ships

Port of Ust-Luga is leading among the Baltic seaports in H1 freight volumes

Cargo turnover at Klaipeda port up 14.5% in H1, to 15 million tons

The Yuri Dolgoruky sub is back after sea trials

Six-month coal exports via Vysotsk down 33%, to 1,06m tons

Rostov-on-Don port boundaries are established

South Africa coal port workers end wage strike

Keppel wins Brazilian contracts totalling S$170m

Quanzhou shipping company starts Quanzhou-Taiwan service

Brazil's Petrobras to rent more port terminals for oil exploration

Montreal port employers promise response to union

Charlotte Maersk unloads boxes in Tanjung Palepas

Greeks buy German box ships as Germany bails out Greece

NY-NJ port authority sells $400 mil in revenue bonds

NOL places $1.2b container ship order

Daewoo Shipbuilding wins US$975m order

Horizon Lines to stay in NY-NJ port

Crude-futures price down to $75.37 in London, in New York, to $76.56

OOCL hikes Asia - New Zealand rates