Crude freight almost at 3 1/2-year low THE world's leading crude oil export routes came within a whisker of a three-and-a-half-year low last Friday on hefty ship supply, cuts by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries and a mild winter, ship brokers and analysts said.
Stolt to quit US bourse STOLT-Nielsen has announced that it will voluntarily de-list from NASDAQ, citing low trading volumes
Brazil dreams of exclusive ethanol carrier THE head of Transpetro, the shipping arm of Brazilian oil giant Petrobras, sees Brazil as 'the Saudi Arabia of renewables', and wants tankers specifically for ethanol transport
MCA brass seek coastguard dispute solution MCA managers have been considering concerns raised by volunteer coastguards while plans were put in place to cover rescue services during strike action this weekend
Ottawa ends rail strike THE Canadian Parliament has approved a law ordering an end to a round of strikes and lockouts at Canadian National Railway that had drawn the ire of national shipper groups
Customs says 97% of importers, brokers comply with commercial regulations Most importers and brokers receive high grades from Customs and Border Protection for their compliance with regulations.
Protesters blockade Toronto-Montreal rail line
S. Carolina Senate moves port project ahead
Mandatory truck e-manifest set for Canadian crossings
Daewoo clinches US$1.66bn of orders, including five boxships South Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding announced today that it had won US$1.66bn of new orders this month, for 16 vessels, of which five are containerships.
St Petersburg: "Area Four is Go" Container handling has started in "Area Four" of St Petersburg port, opposite First Container Terminal, with the weekly arrival of UniFeeder, with more to come, according to the port.
Valediction: Liner Alert goes "ci-offline"
Moth blights New Zealand's apple exports to Taiwan
65,000,000 reasons... ...why breaking up is hard to do for buyers Teekay Shipping and Torm and their acquisition, OMI Corp.
Begging to differ The dean of US shipping analysts at JP Morgan is touting Teekay and TEN one day after his counterpart at Citigroup told investors to sell both.
Clarksons shares plunge Top shipbroker's stock drops 18% over $54m of claims in Russian maritime fraud battle.
Berlian seeks $200m Singapore-listed tanker owner to launch bond issue to fund new ships.
Ultrapetrol ramps it up Latin American owner unveils enlarged share sale after stock jumps 10% in last fortnight.
Second bidder for Birka Eckero Line faces competition from unnamed rival in takeover battle for Finnish ferry owner.
Blystad in bulk sale Norwegian owner nets substianial profit from deal with India's Mercator for four panamaxes.
Ahlmark offloads veteran Swedish owner sells 1984-built general cargoship to Finnish start-up.
India cracks down on agents New rules require freight forwarders and brokers to register in bid to combat overcharging.
Tsakos docked Shares of Greek owner inflated by more than 10% says bank as it slaps a sell recommendation on the company.
Jinhui slides Asian bulker player sees profits decline by half on weaker rates and premature capesize punt.
Strike call Run of labour disputes leads to deficit for mutual that covers ship delays.
Exmar gets busy Belgian owner orders eighth LNG regasification ship at Daewoo and buys into Wah Kwong's small gas carrier newbuildings.
Sri Lankan exporters cry foul Shippers appeal for state intervention to lower IPBCC boxship group's terminal handling surcharges.
Drugs bust in US Three bags of cocaine worth $3m seized from German-owned boxship headed to New York from Ecuador.
Welsh coastguard strike continues Talks with MCA over insurance cover end unresolved as calls to coastguards go unanswered.
Yantai wins pipe-layer order Italy's Saipem picks Singapore yard for 2010 delivery of ice-strengthened ship.
Japanese trio launch fund Singapore has seen its first Japanese ship investment fund launched under its Maritime Finance Incentive.
ISU warns for complacency International Salvage Union (ISU) members recovered over 566,000 tonnes of pollutants during salvage operations last year. As against 2005, this ...
Mangen sold to Finland The Swedish shipping company Ahlmark Lines have sold their Netherlands Antilles-flagged 3,050 DWT dry cargo vessel Mangen to Finland ...
DIS flag for B&B newbuilding Bukser & Bergning in Oslo has decided to register its newbuilding, under construction at Astilleros Armon S.A. in Spain, in the ...
San Francisco grabs West Coast business Prices diving as supplier shifting barrels to cost-conscious customers.
Engine maker MANages top profit result Sales drive profit increase with order books already filled.
No decision in sulphur debate IMO chief calls for a 'specialist group' to consider all options for controlling emissions from ships.
Pollution control 'not as simple' as switching to distillates BP Marine's Director of Environment and Sustainability calls for "informed, rational and coherent" debate.
Worrying sodium trend reversed Curious fuel irregularities appear to have abated this month.
BP Marine relocates sales office Rotterdam team to take over bunker sales previously handled in the UK.
Rotterdam market holds steady
Vopak expands Singapore storage capacity Total storage capacity in Singapore will grow to 2.6 million m' in 2008.
Nigerian Government approves bunker licences in Niger Delta Presidential committee says stronger bunker industry would provide employment, add value to refinery operations and increase trade.
Singapore supplies stage recovery Bunker prices easing this week but softer trend may not hold for long.
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