News 2010 December 10

STX Finland, USC announce arctic shipbuilding JV

Cunard appoints its first woman Captain

Maersk may pay financial penalties if it fails to ensure the service

Alewijnse wins electrical order for two dredgers

Mexico unveils plan for mega port

CCFI is down 0.7% to 1089.18pts

Admiralty Shipyards’ CEO leaves office in February 2011

Freight flows via Vladivostok port rise in Jan-Nov by 12.4% to 6.47m tons

Ukraine’s Ministry of Transport dissolved, the Minister sacked

Wartsila designs new multipurpose standby vessel

Vanino Port posts for Jan-Nov a 0.5% throughput gain, some 5,7m tons

Croatia to speed up building of Adriatic LNG terminal

Port of Hong Kong to undergo three year dredging/reclamation project

India aims for 5% of global shipbuilding output by 2017

Qingdao berths to open two years ahead of schedule

China receives first export LNG carrier order from MOL

Container ship charter rates fall 30 percent

Crude-futures prices up to $90.99 in London, in New York - to $88.37

Panama Canal reopens after flooding

Hanjin schedules rate hikes and surcharges in 2011