News 2012 October 23

BMT’S XSS design vessel launched at Holland shipyard

HPH’s Brisbane ops set to start by end of this year

Synthetic fuel firm loses $6.7mln

AVIC looking to buy shipyard network

Estonian Waterways Board gets two bids for icebreaking work

Port Everglades welcomes its largest container ship

Klaipedos Nafta calls LNG supply tender

Rolls-Royce to design, equip four new Brazilian PSVs

Petronet scouting for strategic partner for Gangavaram LNG terminal project

Hyundai Heavy 9 month 2012 orders dropped by 40pct YoY

Maersk says signs $694 mln drillship contract

Singapore opens new cruise terminal

Nigeria arrests 15 Russian sailors carrying arms

Turkey's Yildirim offers $1bn for energy, chrome, port assets

Sinopec selling bunkers in Rizhao

EU rejects French request to monitor Korean car imports

Maersk gains as U.S. imports most boxes in five years

Grand Alliance boosts Tacoma volumes

Bahrain hosts IMO World Maritime Day parallel event

Chinese ports container traffic up 8.1 percent in Jan-Sept

STX Rauma Shipyard start building new offshore patrol

Malaysia aims for 2% global shipbuilding share by 2020

Filling of ESPO-2 pipeline to be completed in early November

STX Shipbuilding wins drillship order

SWS bags order to build two 82,000 dwt bulkers

Customs eased control procedure for 90% of tankers at Primorsk, Vysotsk and Ust-Luga

Taganrog Commercial Seaport to buy three ships

Singapore unveils investment in marine and offshore industry

RTL boosts car imports via Russian ports

Singapore may build second LNG terminal

Port of Ust-Luga doubles its cargo volumes, as predicted

GE showcases futuristic technologies that could set new standards in electrical naval propulsion

FMC Technologies, Edison Chouest Offshore form subsea services JV

Building of largest Canadian CONRO starts

New ships to drop fuel use almost 20%

China to ban foreign ships from river trade

Rolls-Royce to power U.S. Navy’s new Ship-to-Shore Connector hovercraft fleet

Seadrill, Songa Offshore in agreement for potential puchase of Songa Eclipse

MAN Diesel & Turbo secures contract for G-type Tier III-compliant engines from Chevron

Sinopec expands bonded bunker sales to Rizhao

IMB reports drop in Somali piracy, but warns against complacency

Rosmorport invites tenders for creation of harbor fleet base in Ust-Luga

Crude oil prices down to $109,44 in London, in New York - to $88,65

Nobel Bros Shipyard lays down second serial barge of Project ROB07 (photo release)