News 2012 March 6

First four container gantry cranes arrive in Wilhelmshaven

Venezuela to ship more fuel to Syria

Multipurpose cargo ship launched at Turku

India can use Chittagong, Mongla ports for transit

Saudi Ports signs SR500m contracts

Maersk Line says plans more slow steaming

India's KSINC to foray into bunkering business

Precious Shipping buys secondhand bulker

Swiber wins $36m in charter contracts

Idle boxship fleet to hit 1.1m teu by year end

BLT redelivers chemical tanker to FSL Trust

Downsizing in Gosmorrechnadzor to cut jobs by 12-15%

Hanjin increases Asia-Europe freight rates

Damen Shipyards and Afai Southern Shipyard to build DFe 3508 for LYHM

ICTSI to acquire controlling stake in Pakistan-port operator

Brunswick Rail, Extes-Transport sign three-year agreement

Maersk Supply Service wins three major contracts in Brazil

DSGo set to become leading regional shipyard

Icebreaker "Russia" reaches Baltic Sea

United Russia Party nominates candidates to govern Primorsky and Krasnodarsky territories

Tallinna Sadam, Unieveem ink JV agreement

China Shipping studies acquisition of shipbuilding and port operation assets

Pirates hijack chemical tanker off Oman

Indian oil tanker cancels shipment from Iran on E.U. pressure

Cosco Busan restoration work about to begin

Peel Ports announces plans for ?300m container terminal in Liverpool

Cargo handling at Port Kavkaz grows 5.22 percent to 679,460 tons

Port of Arkhangelsk throughput rises 6.6 percent

Ukraine’s Yuzhny port's traffic volumes up 1 percent to 3.5 mln tons

STX Finland makes management changes

STAR BULK's vessel sustains bottom damage in Eregli port

Turkmenistan to order new tanker from Krasnoye Sormovo

Russian oil exports rise 1.9 percent in Jan-Feb, to 39.01 mln tons

Nuclear-powered icebreaker Taimyr guides tanker Arctic Char

Production starts from first FPSO in U.S. Gulf

Yuri Kostin named Deputy Chief of Rosmorrechflot

Crude futures price up to $123,8 in London, in New York - to $106,72