News 2012 July 3

Russia’s Rosatom invites bids for $1.14bn icebreaker contract

Northern Sea Route bill passes Russian State Duma

Delay confirmed on Panama Canal expansion project

Sanko Line files for bankruptcy, appoints new CEO

Gazprom and E.ON ink revised gas price deal

Groups sue to halt cruise ship terminal in South Carolina

Foreign investors buy up Russian grain terminals

Asia tankers-supertanker rates to down near 2012 low

China's Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Corp aframax order denied

TNK-BP mulls role in Nord Stream

China's research vessel Xuelong leaves Qingdao for 5th Arctic expedition

Cargotec expects $912m annual sales from venture

Ukraine’s Black Sea Shipyard secures a tugboat contract from PKL Flote

Hapag-Llloyd sees rival Hamburg-Sud as ideal partner

Shipping Corporation of India hikes rates to Europe

APM Terminals gets nod to expand Pipavav Port

Maersk wins U.S. cargo deal worth up to $2.1 bln

India's Adani Ports to build $216 mln terminal in Gujarat

DP World sells Adelaide container port to Flinders

South Korea shipbuilders to post first export drop in 19 years

NOL intends to sell Singapore headquarters

Bunker prices up on Monday

Japan's Mitsui and Russia's Sodrugestvo ink agreement to strengthen grain export business

Hyundai Heavy Industries wins 10 containership order

Sanko Steamship files for bankruptcy

Abu Dhabi Ports Company signs MoU with ADFCA

Thoresen Shipping buys secondhand supramax

Crude shipments via Ventspils nafta terminals rises 19 percent

Busan - Vladivostok shipping line opened

Transneft starts to fill ESPO-2 pipeline with crude oil

Port of Tanjung Pelepas to spend $443m for mega-boxships

CMA CGM, Bridgepoint ink formal agreement on a cruise line acquisition

DFDS Seaways adds more voyages on Kiel-Klaipeda route

Concordia Maritime takes delivery of new tanker from Samsung Heavy Industries

K Line to raise $734mln

Basic Element finalizes cargo port in Sochi

Container volumes increase at West Coast Port

Hapag-Lloyd hikes rates on East Asia-North Europe trade

Crude oil price down to $97,34 in London, in New York - to $83,75