1.   A Cabinet minister on Friday more than doubled the death toll in a January ferry sinking and said a court would investigate possible criminal charges against shipping officials.

2.   A Cabinet minister on Friday nearly doubled the death toll in a January ferry sinking and said a court would investigate possible criminal charges against shipping officials.

3.   Five dead and four injured Russians who were in a helicopter crash in Antarctica arrived in Cape Town aboard a ship, a shipping official said Thursday.

4.   Government envoys and shipping officials wrapped up an international summit on high-seas piracy Friday and agreed to work on a regional framework for combatting the seafaring criminals.

5.   Gov. Josephine Ramirez-Sato of Mindoro Occidental province, where San Jose is located, said government shipping officials should be investigated for allowing unseaworthy ships to sail.

6.   Nampo is the only port in North Korea with facilities to scrap the Pueblo, South Korean shipping officials said.

7.   Shipping officials have been anxious to resume traffic on the profitable line, which was one of the busiest on the Baltic.

8.   Shipping officials said earlier it might have sunk.

9.   The radio quoted shipping officials in Xiamen city in the southern Chinese province of Fujian.

10.   Top shipping officials Monday stressed the need to improve shipping safety, claiming widespread incompetence among seamen has caused an increase in fatal accidents.