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‘Vale Sohar’, one of the largest bulk carriers in the world, was welcomed to Oman by members of the North Al Batinah community headed by H.E. Sheikh Hilal bin Ali Al Habsi, Wali of Sohar.

Despite the ailing economy, freight throughput in the port of Rotterdam grew by 1.7% in 2012. A total of 442 million tonnes of cargo went through the port.

The African Union Commission (AUC) has praised Ethiopia for its recent adoption of the 2050 Africa’s Integrated Maritime Strategy (2050 AIM Strategy).

Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading solutions and services provider, has been contracted to supply the complete dual-fuel

Pirates have kidnapped four sailors off Nigeria’s coast from an Italian platform supply vessel, the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) has said.

The National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia (Bahri) announces that its 80% owned subsidiary company National Chemical Carriers Ltd. Co.

Intercargo, representing the interests of dry bulk shipowners and operators, has found a general lack of information and understanding

On 22 December, 2012, OAO Sovcomflot held a grand opening ceremony for its new training & engineering centre (TEC) in Saint-Petersburg.

Ulrich Bauermeister, managing director of Rostock Port Development Company, states that Warnemünde remains the most popular German cruise port

The launch of the head multifunction complex port service vessel based under the project PELLA SKPO-1000 has been carried out at the Pella Shipyard.

Austal USA, Mobile, Ala., is being awarded a $166,881,824 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-08-C-2217) to exercise the construction option for Joint High Speed Vessel 10.

Nisshin Shipping, a shipowning company from Japan is set to buy seven resale kamsarmax bulkers from two shipyards for the estimated price of USD 23 million each, according to SinoShip News.

STX Offshore & Shipbuilding revealed on December 23th that the company has secured a contract worth USD 695 million to build 13 oil tankers for BP Shipping, Reuters reports.

With reference to the press release of 26 November 2012 (the Initial Announcement) and subsequent release on 17 December 2012

In connection with maintenance work on the installation vessel SEA JACK in the Keppel Verolme yard in Rotterdam

Arctic offshore vessel NB-506 Vitus Bering was delivered at Helsinki Shipyard on Friday 21.12.2012 to the client Sovcomflot

Within the framework of International Cooperation of the FSUE “Rosmorport” with foreign sectoral partners in December 2012

Global engineering group Cavotec has won a breakthrough order for its innovative MoorMaster automated mooring technology in the Netherlands

New regulations are to ensure that shipping companies can pay compensation in case of passenger accidents.

Diana Shipping Inc., a shipping company specializing in the ownership and operation of dry bulk vessels, announced that