News 2012 July 10

Russian State Duma endorses WTO accession protocol

Maersk, Hamburg Sud pullout will kill NZ port

Phoenix Petroleum to acquire shipping company

President Putin advises energy companies to increase dividends

Pac Basin targets Australian LNG terminal tug business

Qingdao Qianwan Container Terminal gets offshore loan

Xiamen Port invests in Gulei Port area

Port of Ust-Luga half-year traffic volume soars 2.1 times

China Merchants launches its own container operating system

Baosteel’s jv aims for 14 ships by 2015

China will spend $12bn on LNG ships through to 2020

Denmark to take 20 pct stake in N.Sea oil producer DUC

Shanghai Port container throughput up 5.7 pct y/y in June

Russia’s inland waterway bill to pass final reading in State Duma

Environmental watchdog to probe into oil spill near Novorossiysk

Paris MOU publishes 2011 annual report

MHI, CHDER set to promote natural gas-fired distributed generation system business

Oil shipments via Port of Baku drops 25 percent

MHI completes full-scale marine diesel engine testing facility

Golar LNG Partners adds West Java FSRU asset

Canada port targets East Coast gateway status

Wilhelmsen Ship Services restructures in Asia

Nobel Bros Shipyard starts building serial barges for Lena Shipping in July

SASCO buys multipurpose M.V. Kunashir

Stolt Tankers posts Q2 profit

Wärtsilä secures long-term service contract from Princess Cruise Lines

Hyundai Heavy Industries bags LPG carrier duo order, appoints new ceo

Port of Riga six-month cargo volume up 11.7 percent

IHC Merwede's unit renamed IHC Sealing Solutions

Box Ships Inc. withdraws preferred shares and warrants offering

Yujin cancels tanker order

Malaysia's Coastal inks order for 12 offshore vessels

Week opens with bunker prices continuing to fall

Philippines fuel retailer acquires Chelsea Shipping

Vasan inaugurated VTMS at Chennai Port

Container Terminal St. Petersburg cargo volume soars threefold

Crude oil price rebounds to $100,32 in London, in New York - to $85,99