News 2010 November 22

SCF, Chinese Petroleum Corp. sign energy cooperation agreement

Rough weather halts handling operations at Murmansk port

Vladimir Nikolayev expects more shipping via VBW next year, up to 19m tons of cargo

Saaremaa-Gotland ferry service to be launched next summer

Shipping via Volgo-Baltic waterway up 10% to 18.4m tons

Pirates board Russian tanker off Nigeria

Macquarie, Freeport to build Texas LNG export terminal

Maersk 500 mln eur bond pulls in 1.6 bln eur orders

Ezra Holdings plans $130m fleet expansion

Thoresen buys stake in Vietnam port

Croatia gets bids for last shipyard in EU reform step

Brazil shipbuilding fund set to grant BRL13 bln financing

DP World in labour dispute at Algeria port

Kochi port extends concession to mainline box ships

Azerbaijan cargo sea transportation down 15% in 10 months

Port of Houston revenue from container operations up 11 percent year-over-year

Sinopec Trading unit hires tanker to ship fuel to China from Rotterdam

Bureau Veritas launches Polar Rules and ice guidance

VCT takes delivery of new Kalmar RTGs

Azerbaijan, Greece sign agreement on sea transport

LNG to displace oil as dominant ship fuel within 40 years - Det Norske

CPV handles heavy equipment for Ust-Srednekanskaya HPS

Dalian Port seeks up to $904 mln in Shanghai IPO

Coal India plans shipping JV with SCI for thermal coal import

Krasnoye Sormovo delivers new 7,000dwt tanker

Russian FTS posts eco surcharges at Primorsk Oil Terminal

Pirates attack NS Spirit tanker off Lagos coast, a crew member wounded

PetroChina imports 35,000 tons of diesel

Crude-futures prices down to $84.34 in London, in New York - to $81.51

Trans-Pacific carriers set $400 base rate increase