News 2011 September 6

Ust-Luga terminal reports record coal volume in August, railcars backlog

Chevron takes capacity at UK South Hook LNG terminal

Somali pirates free MV Panama after $7 million ransom paid

Rotterdam coal stockpiles reach full capacity - Barclays

South China's Guangxi H1 port throughput hits 100m tonnes

Bulgaria's Varna port throughput up to 1.014 million tons in August

PIL, MCC to launch Bangladesh-China services

Seoul seeks protection for Korean sailors on foreign ships

Pacific Shipping Trust gets first capesize bulk carrier from Hyundai Heavy Industries

Taiwan's shipbuilder CSBC Corp H1 profit up 99% to $44.7mln

Australia's Port Hedland throughput up 15.3 pct in August vs July

Nordic American Tankers buys vessel from Samsung Heavy for $24.45 mln

International Maritime Organisation's new emission norms to hurt Indian shipping companies

UCL Holding eyes largest cruise operator in Russia

Baltic Coal Terminal throughput more than doubled in Jan-Aug

KHI delivers 205,000dwt bulk carrier for KAw 1655 Shipping S.A.

Rolls-Royce secures PSV design order from Simek AS

Port Vysotsky coal throughput soars 50 percent to 2.2m tons

Cargo traffic at Port of Ventspils grows 9.2 percent in Jan-Aug

Vladivostok port handles 26.5ths tons of export grain

Yuzhny port’s eight-month throughput soars 34.4 percent

China COSCO not in formal talks with Vale over mega bulk ship sale-official

New South Wales plans to raise $2.3 billion by leasing Port Botany

Abu Dhabi Ports and Abu Dhabi Terminals upgrade facility in Mina Freeport

Port of Odessa throughput climbs 1.3 percent to 16.9 million tons

Sino-Russian Hunchun-Kamyshovaya Railway sea-land service launched

RZD set to inject RUB 31.8bn in BAM upgrade

Archangelsk port cargo volume sinks 6 percent to 2.95m tons

Maersk invests or commits $12bn in 2011 to maintain lead

CMA CGM boosts Gulf Bridge Express Service

Labour disputes reportedly driving cargo from Mombasa to Dar es Salaam

IFB expands connections between Rotterdam and Antwerp

CSAV seeks $1.2bn capital injection

China's new railway freight station opens in Changsha

NAT announces acquisition of its 20th vessel

China's investment in oil refining industry up 17.1% in Jan-Jul

Flensburger lays keel for new RO/RO ferry

Crude futures price drops to $110,08 in London