News 2012 December 24

Diana Shipping buys new Kamsarmax dry bulk carrier

Two Russian transport educational institutions to merge

Marco Polo Indon venture to list on 9 Jan, 2013

Rickmers-Linie contract Chinese shipbuilder

Swire to perform deepwater Atlantic salvage in 2013

Border Guard accepts delivery of patrol boat of Project 10410 "Svetlyak" (photo release)

Pella Shipyard launches first multipurpose vessel of Project SKPO-1000

More duel fuel engines ordered from MAN Diesel & Turbo

Essar Ports commissions 16-mln terminal at Paradip

Workers of India's ports to participate in the nationwide strike slated for February

China's Rongsheng warns of full-year loss in 2012

STX Shipbuilding wins 750 bil. won orders for 13 tankers

Somali pirates release longest-held hostages after 33 months

15 rescued from tilting cargo ship in Shanghai

China expects increase in coal imports next year

Hyundai Heavy Ind. Group wins orders worth $1.05 billion

Singapore's LNG terminal to be operational by Q2 2013

Malaysia's Pengerang terminal ready for VLCCs

EU targets air pollution with tightened shipping rules

Tougher EU sanctions against Iran come into force

Dredging Corporation to induct four more dredgers

US Maritime bill targets terrorist states targets terrorist states

Second ROV mobilised onto Seabed Prince

EMP to use data logger to show fuel savings

Gazprom Neft set to boost investment by 25% next year

Steve Jobs’ superyacht impounded in Amsterdam over unpaid bills

Transportation Ministry OKs port charges

Fincantieri buy majority stake in Singapore-listed STX OSV

Prime Shipping sees 30% gain in oil product traffic

Cosco Shipyard to build newly designed LNG fuelled bulker

Swiber increases bond programme to S$1bn

Baltic Dry Index down to just 700 points

Four PSV contracts made effective at Cosco Zhoushan

Autos-laden MV Samarga immobilized in Japan Sea

Rosmorport’s icebreakers lead 20 ships to the ports of Astrakhan and Olya

Tanker, Sena Primorsk, returns safely to Albany, N.Y.

Electric Boat awarded $1.8bn sub design work contract from US Navy

Ice class requirements effective at Vyborg and Vysotsk ports

Russia's Rosmorport and Port of Antwerp ink MoU

Ice restrictions go into effect in Big Port St. Petersburg

Somalia frees 22 pirate hostages, arrests 8 soldiers for hijacking

US Navy exercises tenth JHSV construction option

Azov Sea Icebreaking Center to meet on December 24

Icebreaker Botnica arrives in Tallinn

Icebreakers escort 3 convoys in the Sea of Azov

NCSP Group's 9M profit soars fourfold to US$ 320m

Icebreakers commence operations in Azov Sea

Sovcomflot inaugurates new office in St. Petersburg