News 2011 March 18

120 containers of waste seized at Chennai port

Tanzania container traffic to up 10 pct in 2011

Singapore bunker sales down about 10%

Brazil's Santos Port to get $679 mln IFC syndicated loan

Los Angeles Port OKs project labor agreement

Evergreen Line launches new intra-Asian service

Encana to buy 30 % in Kitimat LNG project

Lauritzen posts 130.7m dollar profit

Hamburg Sud expands WAMS service

Port Ventspils’ throughput down 12.5% to 4 million tons

India's Dhamra Port port welcomes APM investment

Somali pirates free Tunisian ship for $2 million

Oman's Qaboos port resumes full operations after staff boycott

Russian Govt OKs Murmansk SEZ Supervisory Board

MOL recovers bulker vessel

Pacific Shipping Trust gets $132m bank loan to fund acquisitions

MSC to increase Asia-Oz rates US$250/TEU on April 15

Malaysia seizes two contraband containers headed for Iran

We should cease scrap exports via Big Port St. Petersburg - Sergei Ivanov

Official says Russian Govt to invest in salvage vessels

HPH Trust falls nearly 6%

Sea Star Line orders 100 new 53-foot cargo containers

Cosco to levy Tianjin-Taiwan weather fee

Evergreen starts new Japan-Taiwan service

Lack of Japan-made parts closes GM plant in North America

Zim rises India-Europe rates

Some ports in northern Japan resume operations

Maersk ships to avoid Japanese radiation zone

Congestion of 78 ships in the Gulf of Finland eastern part

Crude futures price soars to $114,9 in London, in New York - to $101,42