Bulk carrier orders threathened

Around 20% of orders for building new dry bulk shipping vessels may be cancelled in 2009 as the financial crisis is hitting the shipping industry hard, a shipping industry executive told Dow Jones Newswires. "A lot of shipowners gave orders for building ships over the past two to three years ...

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