News Brief: Shipbuilding News: * RCL splashes out $46m on boxship duo at Yangzijiang * Sungdong in talks for crude tankers * HHI-labor union negotiation fails * DSME uses big data to forecast market Shipping News: * China Merchants and Sinotrans & CSC start merger talks * CS Haisheng benefits from $1.3m in state subsidies * Aframaxes could face headwinds af

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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