News 2010 December 8

Maersk, MSC and CMA CGM propose rate rise from next month

Hong Kong's port cargo throughput up 5% in Q3

Finnish Konecranes gets contract from Abu Dhabi

Rolls-Royce gets order from Tidewater for PSV design and equipment

Shippers and carriers praise US-South Korea free trade deal

NY-NJ port authority to freeze spending, cut workforce

PIL, Wan Hai join others to expand Sino-Black Sea service

Kotka Port’s cargo handling up 48% in Jan-Nov, to 9,1m tons

Infrastructure development of north shipping lane may cost about $ 1bn - Vyacheslav Ruksha

Two vessels collide off HK, two dead

EPD, Siemens to develop hybrid propulsion systems

Jurong Shipyard to deliver a drilling rig to Atwood Oceanics

Liepaja port’s 11-month throughput down 0.3% to 3.94 million tons

Petronas to develop regasification terminal in Malaysia

Japanese government unveiling measures to aid shipyards

Rosmorport adds more ferries to Baltiysk - Ust-Luga year-round service

Drilling rig "Polar Star" to start operating on the Russian shelf, Gazflot says

CKYH to launch AWE-6 Far East-US east coast service in 2011

Hapag-Lloyd owners hire investment banks for IPO

Crude-futures prices down to $91.39 in London, in New York - to $88.69

COSCO Corp. inks $110 mln deal for three bulk carriers