Germanischer Lloyd Forms a World Class Technical Assurance and Consulting Company - Noble Denton Joins GL Group

LONDON - The merger of Noble Denton and Germanischer Lloyd forms a fully integrated technical assurance and consulting company to serve the worldwide energy industries. The new entity will provide assurance, inspection, and consulting as well as project management on a worldwide scale. It will focus its worldwide services along the entire life cycle oil and gas - upstream, midstream, and downstream, renewables and energy installations onshore and offshore. This includes safety, integrity, reliability and performance management.

Experts Gather to Save the Ocean

MAUI, Hawaii - The World’s First Conference on Marine Protected Areas for Marine
Mammals Begins

Swan Hellenic Extends a Helping Hand to Hebridean Spirit Passengers

LONDON - Swan Hellenic has reacted sympathetically to the recent
announcement by Hebridean International Cruises that it is to sell its
Hebridean Spirit cruise ship in April 2009.

Scotland Targets Increased Cruise Ship Traffic With New Marketing Initiative

ABERDEEN, Scotland - Cruise Scotland Launch at Seatrade Cruise Shipping Miami

- For the Special Attention of the Scottish Media

PIERS(R) Trade Horizons Reports: U.S. Exports Forecast to Reverse Growth Trends as Recession Slows Global Commerce

NEWARK, New Jersey - The global recession began to hammer waterborne commerce during the
second half of 2008, according to the latest containerized import-export
statistics from PIERS Trade Horizons. The just-released numbers dash any
lingering hopes that demand from emergent economies for U.S. exports would
provide a silver lining in an otherwise darkening outlook.

CelebrityCruises.co.uk First Dedicated UK Ship Sailing From Southampton

LONDON - Celebrity Cruises (www.celebritycruises.co.uk) ‘Celebrity Eclipse’
has been announced as the third-ship in the new Solstice class and is the
first to sail from Southampton for a full season, being inline with
continuing ship investment to markets outside mainland North America. The
five-star contemporary ship, uniquely designed with interiors by Tihany
Design, offers five different European and Mediterranean cruising itineraries
from April 2010 designed for travellers who prefer to depart from the UK.

Forth Ports - Group CEO Interviewed on Preliminary Results

LONDON - UK Ports operator Forth Ports announced Preliminary Results today. In an
interview with Cantos, Group Chief Executive Charles Hammond described the
Ports performance as ‘very strong with very good margins, very good volumes’
and pointed to the positive ‘Olympic effect’ underpinning Tilbury. He went on
to say that the difficult external environment had affected development
property prices: “We have reduced the market value of a number of our key
property assets including a land bank at Leith Docks. We take the very strong
view that the potential value of these assets remains undiminished.