North Atlantic Drilling has been awarded an 18 month contract extension for the drillship West Navigator by A/S Norske Shell

A keel laying ceremony held at the Arctech Shipyard (Helsinki, Finland), on 19 January 2012, marked the start of the construction of an ultramodern multi-functional icebreaking supply vessel

The New World Alliance (TNWA) - Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM), APL Co Pte Ltd (APL), and Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) - announced the launch of a new Trans-Atlantic service connecting Europe and the UK with the US East Coast and Panama

In 2011 the turnover of JSC “Sea Port of Saint-Petersburg” (“SP SPb”), where as the result of reorganization First, Second and Third Stevedoring companies were included, amounted to 7.4 mln. tons, which is by 9% more than the total indicators of the above-mentioned companies in 2010

On 24 January Edith Maersk, one of the world’s largest container vessels, will perform her first call to Gothenburg with low sulphur fuel

Shipping company OPDR expects to have transhipped around 170,000 TEU in 2011, 10% more than in the previous year

Safe Bulkers, Inc. (the “Company”) (NYSE: SB) announced today that it has entered into a shipbuilding contract for the construction of one Japanese-built, drybulk Panamax-class vessel at an attractive price, with an expected delivery date in the first half of 2014

Hyundai Heavy Industries, the world’s biggest shipbuilder, hailed the New Year by naming two 318,000 DWT VLCC (Very Large Crude Oil Carrier) for an Indian shipping line, GESCO today

More bunkering has taken place in the Port of Rotterdam in 2011

Within the equipment modernization programme JSC “Sea Port of Saint-Petersburg” (JSC “SP SPb”), 2 Liebherr self-propelled rubber-tyred cranes (LHM 600) for handling of bulk and heavy-lift cargoes with the weight up to 140 tons were delivered to the berths of the company

The pool agreement governing the formation of a market leading VLCC pool has now been signed by the four partners

Safmarine has announced the appointment of Grant Daly as its new CEO, effective February 1, 2012

Odfjell SE has made an agreement to enter into a joint venture via its subsidiary Odfjell Terminals Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore), with Tianjin Economic-Technology Development Area (TEDA) via its subsidiary Nangang Port Company to develop a terminal and marine facilities for bulk liquid chemicals, petroleum products and gases in the Nangang Industrial Zone (Tianjin) in China

Cargotec has received an order for two more Kalmar E-One² rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) cranes featuring Zero Emission(TM) technology to Tan Cang Technical Services Joint Stoke Company, one of subsidiary of Vietnam's leading terminal operator Saigon Newport (SNP)