News 2012 February 1

Severnaya Verf lays down 3rd warship of Project 22350

Transport Ministry for competition of pilots at Primorsk and Prigorodnoye ports

Rosmorport mulls serial ice-class pilot boats

Kiel gets container wayport status

Hutchison Whampoa prices US$1 bln-bond deal

Union launches strike at Australia coal terminal

13,000 TEU Cosco ship visits Kaohsiung

FESCO’s Kapitan Khlebnikov to escort oil tankers and LNG carriers

Government of Canada invests in ports

Varna closes port to shipping amid Bulgaria’s big freeze

Unique Maritime Group’s marine buoyancy solutions help stricken vessel and world’s largest windfarm

Shipping recovery unlikely until 2014, says CIMB

Crowley adds weekly express LCL service from Houston to Puerto Rico

Vale-China standoff over mega iron ore ships deepens

New Orleans container traffic rises 11.6 percent

MOL appoints new shipping agent in Turkey

Federation Council approves bill on judicial protection of Russian sailors

Port of New Orleans sets container volume record

Iran tanker group boss steps down

USS Vella Gulf docks at Odessa port

Maersk targets expansion in Africa

Gazprom nine-month profit soars 41.2 percent

Russian Minister of Industry and Trade resigns

CMA CGM, CSCL, UASC offer new Asia-Middle East service

Mercator Lines warns of strain on cash flows

Seaport in the Troitsa Bay resumes car transshipments

Atomflot’s nuclear-powered icebreaker reaches the Baltic Sea

EUROGATE's CTW anticipates delivery of world’s largest container gantries

ABT Optima terminals throughput doubled in 2011

Ship sinks off Turkey, 8 seafarers missing

Crude futures price is up to $110,98 in London, in New York - down to $98,48