News 2011 January 24

ZIM’s boxship fails to dock at Novorossiysk port

Govt Committee OKs pro-shipbuilding bill, official says

Global Ports mulls buying new port assets

Maersk launches new Morocco-Russia ocean service

JNPT plans fifth terminal at Nhava Island

Somali pirates threaten to kill Korean hostages

TUI AG may buy back TUI Travel

DNV evaluates Rotterdam CO2 hub safety

Drydocks World secures $200m in loans for operations

Charleston throughput up 16.9% in 2010

Port of Melbourne's cargo throughput up 13.2% to 78,8m tons

Stena Bulk increases its fleet of MR products tankers

Ice restrictions for Sillamae, Kunda-bound vessels

Tuticorin port to triple cargo capacity by 2020

Icebreakers release ice-bound Russian ship in Sakhalin Bay

MSC plans to sell 49% of terminal business

Colombia's Frontier Coal to start port building in H2

Seaspan announces pricing of $250 mln public offering

Iran's NITC to become 3rd largest oil-tanker company by 2013

TCSP posts for 2010 a 4% gain, over 1,3m tons

Fuel-laden tanker in ablaze in Severodvinsk, two victims reported

Keppel to build two jack-up rigs for Clearwater for $360m

CMA CGM to expand ACSA service from April 2011

Raytheon wins Malaysian navigation equipment contracts

Cambodian ports revenues up by 31.3% to $35m in 2010

Hyundai Heavy Industries to build two VLGCs for Petredec

Crude futures prices settle at $97.6 in London, in New York - at $89.11