News 2012 July 12

Statoil suspends production at Hammerfest LNG

Port of Nakhodka half-year cargo volume up 11 percent

TS Lines helps expand China, India network

Transpacific lines plan August rate hike

Shenzhen container throughput down 2.4 per cent to 1.88 million TEUs last month

Turkey’s Trabzon port can ease Armenia’s blockade

Iran oil trade skirts ship insurance ban

ABB provides ferry terminal shore-to-ship power units

Air-lubrication system offers 6% reduction in CO2

Sugar waiting at Brazil's main ports falls 12% on demand

Malaysia detains Singapore tankers

Estonian railway freight traffic down 9% in H1, 2012

Krasnoye Sormovo Shipyard launches sixth tanker of RST27 project «VF Tanker-6"

Greatship adds new offshore vessel

Shanghai confidence index slips further

Sri Lanka Ports Authority sees for $15 billion in investments over the next 10 years

Gopalpur port operations set to begin from March 2013

China Maritime Centre launches in London

Sri Lanka seeks $1 bln in second round of funding

China Shipping Haisheng predicts first half loss

Port Vostochny traffic grows 10.4% to 13.01m tons in H1, 2012

Gazprom eyes foreign expansion

Authorities of four Russia’s Far Eastern ports merge into Primorsky Territory PA

Daewoo Shipbuilding announces $438m bond issue

Lianyungang Port, China Shipping Terminal form alliance

Mozambique inks IMO anti-piracy Code

Singapore sees 50% increase in ship arrests

Russia’s crude exports via Kozmino Terminal rises 2.7 percent

Titan hit with winding-up petition

Krasnoye Sormovo to launch six tanker of project RST27 for VF Tanker

New Regulations on ship’s crew certification effective July 10, 2012

Russian classification society inaugurates new office in Rotterdam

Hapag-Lloyd Cruises’ Europa 2 leaves drydock at St Nazaire

Murmansk Port closes its St. Petersburg office

Indus Container Lines obtains ISO 9001:2008 certification

Bunker prices lack direction in many ports on Wednesday

Viking River Cruises named No 1 river cruise line

New Managing Director for Damen Shipyards Singapore

Russian Navy will protect Russian ships bound for Syria will - FSMTC

Crude oil price soars to $100,23 in London, in New York - to $85,81

Sino-Russian Manzhouli crossing cargo rises 11.9% in five months

Superyacht Amels 212 receives first green passport