News 2011 November 22

Maersk sets peak season surcharges from Asia to Mexico, Latin America

Counter Piracy Forces receive Lloyd’s List “Newsmaker of the Year” Award

S.Korea's Hyundai, Daewoo eye 1 bln euro GTT buy

Wartsila to buy Hamworthy for ?383 million

UAE to bypass Straits of Hormuz with new pipeline

Kinder Morgan reports fire at Port Arthur terminal

Bangladeshi ship builders Western Marine Shipyard gets order to build 4 ships

Nigeria to commence 24-hour port operations

Cavotec to electrify RTG cranes at DP World's Jebel Ali port in Dubai

Gulf oil producers to spend $15bn on ports in five years

UK company SeaTec establishes bunker oil analysis programme

Shipyards BLRT Grupp and Wartsila co-operate to install scrubbers

Okskaya Shipyard launches 9th bulker of RSD44 project Kapitan Shumilov

Shipping lines plan to stop NEMO service

BSF task unit back home from Mediterranean

DSME builds world's largest floating dock

Georgia Port board approves rail extension

Hamworthy to install its technology on 21 LNG carriers

Bimco warns 50% of yards could become idle

GD's unit bags a $73m contract from US NSWCCD

DSME, Dassault Systems ink MOU for 3D PLM

Seven missing after South Korean cargo ship sinks

Danish shipper Torm cancels order for new tanker

Pacific Northwest ports' imports down, exports up in Oct

CMA CGM plans to sell two post-panamax container vessels

Kuwait Petroleum opens $100-mln refinery in Rotterdam

Maersk beefs up its fleet on Asia-South America trade

UGC, Dalport sign LOI for construction of Far East grain terminal

General Dynamics secures two $56.7m contracts from U.S. Navy

Wartsila inaugurates its first X35 low-speed engine in China

Port of Odessa to scrap two harbor vessels

Shipowner, master and crew named responsible for Bulgaria boat sinking

North American Freight Index up 39pc in October, biggest jump since Katrina

Agriculture exports face delays at Port of Oakland

GD's Bath Iron Works lays keel of DDG 1000, first Zumwalt-class destroyer

Crude futures prices down to $106,88 in London, in New York - to $96,92