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Miami - Major United States cruise companies suspended visits to Mexican ports on Tuesday due to the swine flu outbreak. As the virus continued to spread, Royal Caribbean, Carnival and the Norwegian Cruise Line - who every day transport thousands of holiday makers everyday around the Caribbean - announced the preventative move. Royal Caribbean Cruises t...
In London, the Brent Crude contract was down $0.33 on April 28 to $49.99 per barrel on the ICE Futures exchange. Light Sweet Crude fell $0.22 to $49.92 on the New York Mercantile Exchange, RBC reports. Source: PortNews
Crew of the Russian antisubmarine ship Admiral Panteleyev detained and examined a boat with Somali pirates aboard Tuesday night, Itar-Tass reports. The detention took place at 18:10 Moscow Daylight Saving Time /14:10 GMT/ some 15 miles east off Somalia's coast in the zone of intensive commercial navigation. During the inspection, the crew found seven K...
The Panama Canal Authority added five new tugboats to its fleet that assists ships transiting the waterway. Cheoy Lee Shipyards built the boats with an output capacity of 4,800 horse power and a bollard pull of more than 60 metric tons each. These new tugboats are an important acquisition for the operation of the Panama Canal, said ACP Executive Vice Pres...
Grigory Ermolenko was appointed as Manager of the RS (Russian Register) Representation in Vietnam. Grigory Ermolenko joined RS in 1984 in Novorossiysk as surveyor. Later for a long period he worked in the RS Representation in Argentina, in 1999-2003 he was the head of the Representation. RS Representation in Vietnam was established in 1983. Region of ac...
Mercator Lines (Singapore) Limited, a subsidiary of Mercator Lines Limited, has won Singapore Corporate Awards 2009 (SCA), in two categories viz; Best Annual Report Award (Bronze) in the $300 million to less than $1 billion market capitalisation category as well as the Best Annual Report Award (Silver) in the Newly-Listed Companies category. The award was p...
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK Line) and Mitsui & Co., Ltd. – have signed an agreement with United Industrial Corporation (OPK), one of Russia's largest diversified corporations, to implement a feasibility study on constructing large-size liquid natural gas (LNG) carriers at the shipyards of an OPK aff...
A Maersk Alabama crewman has sued Maersk Line and Waterman Steamship Corp. for allegedly not providing adequate security during the ill-fated voyage past Somalia, the Houston Chronicle newspaper reported. Richard E. Hicks, the ship's chief steward, said the companies didn't do enough to protect the vessel from pirates. Hicks said he thought he was going ...
Port of Tallinn is the biggest port authority in Estonia and as far as both cargo and passenger traffic are taken into account, the biggest port on the shores of the Baltic Sea.
Qingdao Saint Voyage Logistics Inc. (SVL) is an Experienced International Shi
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