News 2011 September 9

Otto Marine bags $77.0m orders for AHTS vessels from Go Marine.

Cargotec secures Vietnamese pipelayer with mooring solutions

Shipping associations call for UN armed guards to protect ships from pirates

ESPO2 oil pipeline’s “golden joint” welded in Primorsky Territory

Evergreen orders 4,000 reefer boxes

Riga Free Port throughput rises 14.6 pct to 22.6 m tons

Port of Liepaja cargo traffic up 16.4 percent in Jan-Aug

DFDS launches ferry service to Ust-Luga port

Santos Brasil Terminal to deploy Quay Crane OCR from Navis

Massive outage in US Southwest and Mexico

Cargo starts moving through Tripoli, Benghazi Ports

Technip wins contract in Abu Dhabi

DP World, Cochin Port closer to cabotage exemption for Vallarpadam

Mitsui acquires Portek for $179 million

STX Finland secures contract for two well intervention vessels

ILWU protest closes Ports of Seattle, Tacoma

LNG tanker rents top $100,000 on ship shortage, Fearnleys says

Wartsila and Shell sign co-operative agreement to promote use of LNG as a marine fuel

Otto Marine sells AHTS vessel for $24mln

Brightoil Petroleum spends $157m to start upstream business

K Line starts new Thailand-East India service

ABS launches piracy quick reference guide

Shipper-carrier debate heats up on banning transpac antitrust immunity

TBS International reaches agreement with lenders

Oxfam, WWF call for bunker levy on ships

OOCL reduces emerging market currency risk

First half Hamburg-Poland container volume up 38% to 114,000 TEU

Crude futures price down to $114,55 in London, in New York - to $89,05