Dubai's next target: 200,000 cruise tourists The Gulf emirate of Dubai, which has established itself as the leading cruise destination between Europe and Asia within the last few years, is targeting 200,000 cruise tourists for the 2007-2008 winter season.
Titan Petrochem to rely less on shipping oil Titan Petrochemicals Group Ltd is building China's biggest ship-repair yard to cut the tanker operator's reliance on shipping oil.
Persian Gulf tanker rates may extend slide The cost of shipping Middle East crude to Asia, the world's busiest market for supertankers, may fall for a seventh day as a surplus of ships compete for cargoes.
Novorossiysk tries again for IPO After an abortive attempt to raise $700M to fund its expansion plan a year ago, the Novorossiysk Sea Port Co (NTMP) has announced its intention to make an IPO on the London and Moscow stock markets next month
Greens protest at Baltic nuke boat GREENPEACE protestors have boarded a ship that was transporting 4.8 tonnes of spent nuclear fuel including plutonium from Sweden to the UK
New rules on seafarer medicals A SET of revised guidelines for conducting medical fitness examinations for seafarers has been issued by the Philippines' Department of Health
Dubai to build maritime university DUBAI Maritime City has announced that it will build a maritime university on a 300ha land reclamation site
JV shipyard project for Garware Garware Offshore Services is to set up a shipyard in India that will concentrate on building offshore supply vessels as part of a joint venture deal with the Norwegian builder Havyard Leirvik
Car carrier CO2 footprint studied WHILE flag states are still seeking a strategy to reduce ocean shipping's carbon emissions, an environmental performance audit has been launched for all transport modes including shipping
All time high on Stena Line's Poland service September was the first month ever with more than 9,000 freight units carried by the Stena Line vessels on the Karlskrona ' Gdynia route. In May, the service was expanded with the chartered-in Finnarrow and the time table has been ...
First private Danish pilot service established The first private Danish pilot service has been established in Fredericia. Eight former pilots from the Fjord & Bælt pilotage has formed their own private company called Danish Pilot Service A/S and is now offering pilot services to and from ...
Those who leave Norwegian tax system are punished Those shipping companies that chose to leave the new Norwegian tax system are punished severely. Not only must they settle all of the back-tax immediately, rather than over 10 years, but the tax is calculated on the vessels' market ...
INTERTANKO: Numbers still add up to distillate solution INTERTANKO official says new research is bad news for scrubbers, while distillate proposal is 'at worst CO2 neutral'.
Colonial revises barge rates
Cruise ship claims another victim Diver investigating sunken vessel dies, worries about uncollected fuel persisting.
EU could cap CO2 from ships by 2012 Shipping urged to be prepared for possible inclusion in EU trading scheme for greenhouse gas.
Kuwait: New barges to arrive soon One of two large, newbuild bunker barges launching in Singapore expected to reach Kuwait early next month.
Rotterdam market remains firm
Singapore: Aegean changes contact details
Singapore floating storage plans 'ideal for bunker traders' Phase 2 feasibility study to be completed by end-2008.
Typhoon closes Chinese ports Shanghai and Ningbo ports have temporarily ceased operations.
Australia: 380 cst prices surpass 180 cst Price differential between 380 cst material 180 cst material inverted.
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