News 2012 March 23

OOCL announces port adjustment to G6 Alliance’s Loop 3 service

Australia seeks to revive domestic shipping

The new Wartsila X35 low-speed engine successfully passes Factory Acceptance Test

Spot rates ease in Asia-Europe trade

Smaller vessels prop up Baltic sea index

Bumi Armada grabs PSV charter contract

Iran's shipping companies turn to public sector insurers

Lloyd's Register designs software to monitor instrumentation

Hong Kong container throughput up to 1.65m TEU in February

Singapore Exchange to start dual-currency trades in April

Hapag-Lloyd posts loss of $38 mln

‘K’ Line upgrades intra-Asia services

More oil, containers spilling from Rena

Maersk halts North Europe-Asia bookings as terminals almost full

Five more bodies found in wrecked Italian ship

Dart Container to buy Solo Cup for $315mln

Bumi Armada gets PSV charter contract

HPH Trust to launch dual currency trading

Xiamen port net profit up 44% to $23m

Cosco Corp confirms PSVs order

Busa throughput up 14.1% in February

Dalian Shipbuilding to build two semi-submersibles for Sirius Offshore

Essar Shipping inks $121m offshore drilling contract

Crude oil price is down to $123,14 in London, in New York - to $105,35