News 2013 January 16

Middle East tanker glut rises from six-week low

Alfa Laval wins SEK 130 million offshore gas order in South Korea

EU Naval Force French frigate Surcouf rescues ten sailors in Indian Ocean

Hong Kong offers $1.3 billion to replace polluting vehicles

Port of Los Angeles cargo numbers drop in 2012

Kenya plans to replace Mombasa-Nairobi oil pipeline

S.Korea's Hyundai Heavy wins $600 mln order from Seaspan

Throughput of Nakhodka port up 13% to 16.91 mln t in 2012

CMES places VLCC orders at Jiangnan Shipyard

Valemax able to dock at Chinese ports in 2013 - Vale

Gas exports from U.S. surge as sanctions undermine Iran

Daoda to build the largest floating dry dock in the US

Naming ceremony for Sovcomflot’s tanker Anatoly Kolodkin held in South Korea (photo)

Pirate attacks fall to five year low in 2012

OOCL celebrates the christening of OOCL Miami

SA's bulk exports up 4.8% last year

Kalmar secures large order for 12 all-electric RTGs for Piraeus Container Terminal

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to establish marketing and design company in China for small/medium-size steam turbines

OW Bunker note successful start for U.S. physical operations

Net profit of Odessa Commercial Sea Port (Ukraine) totals UAH 416.1 mln

Seaspan chooses CleanBallast

Vigor inks deal for 80,000 ton drydock

Oman mulls second crude oil export terminal near Duqm

Shippers cite barriers to low-sulfur fuel use in Hong Kong

Baltic-UKC handysize fuel oil freight rates fall on little cargo movement

Export of Russian oil via Kozmino terminal up 7.2% to 16.23 mln t in 2012

Shenzhen Port saw container volumes fall 2% to 1.89m TEU in December

Cargo traffic of RF inland water transport up 12.1% to 142 mln t in 2012

Shipyard of Odessa port boosts revenue from ship repair in 2012

Alam Maritim bags six vessel charter deal

PORT FLEET vessels stop handling shipboard waste in port St. Petersburg

Yangzijiang Shipbuilding to raise $15m from warrant issue

South Korea LNG prices up in December

Last voyage for icebreaker Rossiya

Nacks clinches bulker order from Oldendorff

Hyundai Heavy Industries confirms $600m five-boxship order

Bunker prices firm in Europe

Kontur SPb signs contract with Rosmorport for shipboard waste collection in port St. Petersburg