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Singapore: With eight months to go before the April 2011 edition of SEA ASIA, the region's leading maritime conference and exhibition held every two years ... [full story]

Dehli: The Indian Navy successfully thwarted a Somali pirate attack on Sunday. Guided missile destroyer INS Delhi was escorting a convoy of 12 ships through the ... [full story]

Tokyo: NYK Line (Japan) is changing its name with the transfer of business from Tokyo Senpaku Kaisha (TSK Line). TSK Line’s intra-Asian container business will be ... [full story]

Singapore: Marco Polo Marine has bagged a one-year Indonesian coal shipping contract worth S$4m. Its subsidiary Marco Polo Shipping has signed a one-year contract to ship ... [full story]

Hanoi: Four more senior officials from Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Group (Vinashin) have been arrested. As investigation continue into the debt laden state shipbuilder that came ... [full story]

Indonesia: Japanese tanker has become the 27th vessel this year to be hit by pirates in Indonesian waters in the South China Sea. The chemical tanker ... [full story]

Singapore: Yangzijiang Shipbuilding has cut how much it will pay for PPL Holdings to $116.3m from $155m previously. The Chinese shipbuilder is seeking buy PPL Holdings ... [full story]

Singapore: A Sovcomflot tanker was holed in a collision with Malaysian cargoship in the Singapore Strait on Friday. Sovcomflot said the 47,357 dwt Laptev Sea had ... [full story]

Shanghai: Wilh. Wilhelmsen has sold four of its car carriers to China for recycling, writes ShipGaz. Since the market for vehicle carriers collapsed in 2008, ... [full story]

Seoul: Russian railfreight company TransContainer has set up a subsidiary in South Korea to deliver container cargo from South Korea to Russian regions, and also ... [full story]