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$13,750, for 1 year trading, to TOTAL

dely CJK 06 Dec, $7,250, for 3/5 months, to Seatrek

the ships that are planned for the GAPOG port for November and December 2018 from CAP TOWN

Miami based Victory Cruises Lines will charter an X-bow expedition cruise ship from SunStone Ships. The cruise ship with the Ulstein designed bow will be built in China to be delivered in 2021. http://cruisedeck.de/x-bow-expeditionsschiff-fuer-victory-cruise-lines/

$14,500, for 6/12 months trading, to SHELL

dely Zhanjiang 05/06 Dec, $11,900, for 5/8 months, to SDTR

The Sture terminal and the Kollsnes plant resumed operations Thursday afternoon after being shut down in connection with the collision between the frigate KNM Helge Ingstad and the tanker Sola TS at the Sture terminal early Thursday morning. Also North Sea installations affected by the shut-down of the two onshore plants are gradually starting up again.

Shree Ram Group said Thursday the European Commission has audited its recycling yard at Alang in Gujarat for the inclusion in the EU list of approved ports. The facility is among the first Indian yards audited by the European Commission and its inclusion in the EU list could help accelerate the transformation underway in the ship recycling industry in India, the company said in a statement. The European Commission (EC) visited Alang to assess two of the 11 Indian yards which have applied to be included in the EU list of yards where EU-flagged vessels can be dismantled.

$19,000, for 9 months trading, to TRAFIGURA

dely Zhoushan 10/15 Dec, $9,750, for 3/5 months, to Chart Not Rep

Jaime Vieira dos Santos, president of Leixões Port Community, has publicly criticised the way the SEAL trade union has undertaken its recent struggles with port management. Speaking at the Portuguese Logistics Association’s ‘Shipping and Ports’ seminar, he noted that unions have persistently tried to close down ports and that their way of conducting business reflected a “medieval world of port work”.

Contecon Guayaquil SA (CGSA), the Ecuadorian subsidiary of International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI), welcomes the recent decision by the Guayaquil government to dredge and maintain the channel leading to the Port of Guayaquil. Through an international tender, the Technical Commission of the Municipality of Guayaquil last 5 October awarded a 25-year concession to the Luxembourg-based Jan De Nul Group, which will undertake the dredging and maintenance of the 95-km main access channel leading to the port. With dredging works expected to be completed within the first year of the concession, mega vessels will soon be able to enter the port even with a 12.5-meter draft at high tide, from the existing access channel depth of 9.6 meters.