News 2012 September 12

Wilhelmsen Maritime Services selected as finalist at Lloyd's List MEIS Awards 2012

LPG tanker involved in Singapore collision chartered by Shell

Djibouti, European maritime chief discuss anti-piracy capacity building

Phoenix Petroleum shareholders approve Chelsea shipping deal

Estonian LNG terminal can break Russian monopoly, experts say

OSR drills at offshore terminal of Big Port St. Petersburg (photo release)

MARAD cancels study questioning double hull wisdom

SITC aims for $10bn in annual revenues

Bunker suppliers Bakri Trading, Ocean Energy to not renew Singapore licenses

Brazil expects to auction iron-ore terminal in Rio

Kuwait Petroleum and the Port of Rotterdam sign an agreement

Jinling bags China’s largest PCTC orders

Port deal gives Chinese access to Sea of Japan

CCYIA joins int’l marine association

Ten ports shortlisted for ESPO Award

Egypt's Suez Canal August revenue increases to $446.6mln

VF Tanker-7 of Project RST27 passed sea trials

Hapag-Lloyd suspends its service to Costa Rica

Matson to hike fuel surcharge

TNK-BP in talks to sell Ukrainian refinery

OOCL warns of port congestion surcharge

PSA faces damages for not signing port deal

Spain vows to regulate Gibraltar bunkering

EU votes to adopt IMO sulfur limits

Port Ilyichevsk cargo volumes rose 12.87 percent in August

BP's GCRO update on Hurricane Isaac's impact on Deepwater Horizon clean up operations

Statoil and Bring enter into transportation & freight forwarding agreement

Grimaldi unit buys six Ro-Ro vessels from Pacific Basin

Russia may have new ice-free port in Kaliningrad region

P&O Cruises Arcadia calls at Odessa port (photo release)

En+ Port gets FAS nod to manage Port Vanino

BP to sell US Gulf Of Mexico assets to Plains

Drydocks World and ABB sign partnership agreement at SMM

Maersk hikes rates on India, Sri Lanka - Mediterranean trade

GL completes EEDI certification of four Carisbrooke eco-friendly vessels

Ingalls Shipbuilding starts fabrication on US Navy's Aegis destroyer John Finn

Hunan river port starts direct links with Keelung

APL and Con-way launch service from Jakarta to North America

Dongfang asset sale flagged

Precious sells delayed ABG Shipyard newbuildings

Moscow Shipyard secures contract for Project 21770 Catran workboat

Grand Alliance lines decamp to Da Chan Bay

Yantar Shipyard built RV Seliger sets out on sea trials

Nord Stream second leg to be launched on Oct. 8

Tuesday bunker prices move up

Crude oil price is up to $115,4 in London, in New York - to $97,17