News Brief: Shipbuilding News: * New Yangzi wins Bangkok Max boxship duo * HMD faces new LPGC deal * SPP fails in RG for NB tanker octet * Korea to block low price order * "Korea to see 27% drop in NB orders" Shipping News: * CSSC pays $30m for 18-year-old VLCC * Dry bulk ship values retreated by at least 20% since mid-August says shipbroker Steel News:

Shipbuilding News: * Huatai won from Germany four container vessels * COMEC clinches Swedish MR TK order * DaeSun confirms 1,800 teu duo * “HHIC to report profits in Q4” * LNG bunkering TK marketing started Shipping News: * East African product tanker demand could see a major boost on increased demand * Dry bulk shipowners faced with loss of USGC-China petcoke rou

  News Brief: Shipbuilding News: * Guangzhou Wenchong wins twin boxship order from Lomar Shipping * Hyundai Samho wins PCTC quartet * HHIC sells land asset * “SHI offshore risk reduced” * Korean yards' credit downgraded * Korea tops new order contracting

News Brief: Shipbuilding News: * Jiangnan inks Greek VLGC * COSCO delayed drilling rig again * Merger of CSIC and CSSC may be completed ‘in one year’ * Sainty Marine wins arbitration * Scorpio orders more MR * Korea tops new order contracting Shipping News: * "Ship operating costs to increase for 2015-2016" * USGC-Europe MR freight rate falls to 8.5-mont

News Brief: Shipbuilding News: * CSIC bags large order of Sinotrans * Landmark Capital LNGC builder changed * DSME borrows short money * More rescue is expected for DSME * SHI revises 3Q results, turning into loss * SK denies rumors on buying troubled Daewoo Shipbuilding Shipping News: * New VLGCs taking toll on freight rates, open US LPG arbitrage * Glut of