News 2011 March 31

Antwerpen steps up radioactivity checks on ships from Japan

MOL merges two group units to enhance seafarer management

Evergreen, CSCL, ZIM to launch new Asia-Europe service

Four carriers to start new transpacific service

Otto Marine wins $43.4m sales order for two AHTS

Grand Alliance, ZIM & HMM to launch new SCE2 service

Idle container fleet reaches lowest level in two years

Merger of TSC and Seaport St. Pb

Spanish navy arrests 11 suspected Somali pirates

Intra-Asia trade to reach 22 mln TEU in 2011

NCSP Group appoints new Vice-President

Japan radiation not big concern for chemical tankers: shipbrokers

CMA CGM Columba opens Vietnam terminal

Palmali Group commissions new 7,1DWT tanker

Pella Shipyard’s net income down 29.4% to RUB 333m

Zim posts 2010 net profit of $54 mln

Exec quits Rotterdam port board over pay cut

Hamburg Sud, Alianca to stop service in Baltimore

New Yangtze terminal opens in Chongqing

Horizon aims to restructure - interim CEO

St. Petersburg-Stockholm ferry line starts operating

128 ships need icebreaker assistance in the Gulf of Finland

Crude futures price is down to $115,13 in London, in New York - to $104,79

Zhejiang Taitong Shipbuilding to build two bulkers for Wugang