News 2011 November 7

Neva-Metal boxes volume rises 7 percent to 35,000 TEUs

Fujairah shipyard launches second wave-piercing crew boat

Russian landing ship returns from long cruise

Latvia’s Port of Ventspils cargo traffic rises 12.9 percent in Jan-Oct

Iran to launch first research vessel by the end of 2012

Scana Volda equipment picked for STX OSV stern trawler newbuilds

DP World Australian ports hit by strikes

Black Sea basin ship owners suggest forming new association

Stolt-Nielsen secures $600m credit facility

Hanjin Shipping posts Q3 net loss of $77.2 million

Norway's Bourbon Offshore secures two charter extensions

Russian President inks law encouraging domestic shipbuilding and shipping industry

Otto Marine enters agreement to sell AHTS vessel

Maersk Tankers takes two VLCC newbuildings on bareboat

Shippers have paid $110m in ransom this year

Maersk wins $550 mln rig order from Total

Australia's Port Hedland iron ore shipments down in October

Vietnam, Japan form venture to build two wharves in Lach Huyen Port

Rotterdam expects cargo slowdown in Q4

Port of Melbourne could hit max capacity by 2015

EU NAVFOR warship disrupts and sinks Pirate Action Group

FESCO posts a 28.2 percent gain in export / imports to 282,360 TEUs

Palawan to upgrade sea ports

MOL provides support for Thai floods relief efforts

Namura Shipbuilding iron ore carrier delivered to NYK

Helsinki shipyard starts production of second icebreaking supply vessel

Maersk Oil Qatar added to Offshore Middle East Advisory Board

CMA-CGM sells half its Malta Freeport shares

Shipping Corporation of India takes delivery of Supramax bulk carrier

Rosimushchestvo unveils Murmansk port shares buyer

Throughput of Port Vanino down 5.3 percent in Jan-Oct

Construction of Ust-Luga approach channel enters final phase, Rosmorport says

Seawater solution for stricken Rena

DCD-Dorbyl inaugurates upgraded Cape Town repair quay

American Feeder Lines seeks exemption to use foreign ships

Fujian traffic infrastructure investment up 13.6pc in first three quarters

CMA CGM transfers half of Malta Terminal to Yildirim

Ferguson Shipbuilders secures order for two hybrid Ropax ferries

Yang Ming to order its first set of 16,000 teu ships

Ships hijacked off both east and west coasts of Africa

BG Group to import more LNG in Singapore from 2013

Sevmash to assemble Russian nuclear-powered aircraft carrier

Crude futures price is up to $111,97 in London, in New York - to $94,26