News 2011 December 7

Throughput of Helsinki port climbs 3 percent to 9.35 mln tons

CPV handles FESCO’s 3.100teu boxship

Volga Shipping traffic grows 22 percent to 6.7 million tons

CNRG Group buys 80.16% stake in Astrakhan-based shipyard

Damaged Vale ore ship moved, shipments normalized

CSAV, Boskalis set $990 mln value for tug venture

Hong Kong container throughput up 2 percent

Shanghai plans expansion of shipping derivatives market

Maersk may end another Auckland service

Newcastle port plan may be ditched

Xiamen Port to take over Maersk’s Songyu terminal

Coal stocks at China's 4 major Bohai Sea ports up 10% on week

Azeri oil shipping from Turkey’s Ceyhan port fell by 18% in November

Dubai to be Hamburg’s strategic transit port

Panalpina begins two direct LCL Asia-Poland services

Scan-Trans and Staureby Shipping form strategic partnership

Angola LNG Supply Service appoints GAC to handle port & bunker fuels services

Mitsui sells 1995-build double-hulled supertanker to scrap

MSC-CMA CGM pact worries European shippers

Malaysia to boost shipbuilding and repair sectors

Europe's debt crisis hits South Korea's shipyards

Tauranga Port raises container volumes forecast

Botlek Tank Terminal starts operations

APL takes slots on MOL's Japan - Thailand and Philippines service

Precious Shipping pays $39m for bulker duo from STX

Damaged STX Pan Ocean VLOC moved to anchorage says Vale

Hapag-Lloyd offers new Vietnam-US service

Crude futures price is up to $110,81 in London, in New York - to $101,28