News 2012 December 27

Vessel order dearth seen spurring China shipyard closings

More cruise ships to stop in Korean ports next year

Sinopacific Shipbuilding gets financial support from parent

Vitol to sell marine fuel

GD's Bath Iron Works gets $13.5m order from US Navy

OOCL to revise Emergency Bunker Surcharge

Russia unveils $25bn oil link to Pacific

Low water may halt Mississippi River transport next week

Imminent threat of labor unrest averted at US Northwest ports

Israel Ports Co progresses in Indian port tender

China to send women into the deep ocean

Prosecutor’s Office finds no fault in actions of Vostochny Port management

Nordic Yards secures orders for two rescue / salvage ships from Russia's Transport Ministry

Ukrainian official vows to complete Yuzhny port LNG terminal

Port of Arkhangelsk sees 20% growth in passenger traffic

Thoresen Thai Agencies plans to raise more than BT6 billion

Statoil expands its exploration portfolio in Brazil

HHI boosts its order book to $ 1.05bn with new LNG carrier order

Ocean drilling expedition retrieves “Greatest Hits of Paleoclimate” from the North Atlantic

US East Coast Ports Labor Negotiations to continue

Vyborg Shipyard starts building 16MW icebreaker of Project 21900M

Icebreakers escorted 16 ships at Big Port St. Pb

Maersk retrofits 10 boxships in Qingdao

Qingdao port throughput hits 400mln

Fishing boat with 24 seafarers adrift 60 nm off Tsugaru Strait

Lukoil boosts its Bulgarian bunker sales

Crude oil price rebounds to $111,07 in London, in New York - to $90,98

Freight rail traffic to Russian seaports rises 8% - Vadim Morozov