Thursday 11 March 2010.

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Investors to amend plans The crisis has introduced a number of changes to the projects of construction of new port terminals in Russia. Volume of investment is reduced, project implementation period is rescheduled. However, large number of investment projects, that are on the early stage of implementation, have been worked out at the present moment, the most interesting of which are planned to be carried out in the Kaliningrad region, the port of Taman, Tuapse, and others.

Opinions

Vyacheslav Shport, The Governor of The Khabarovsk Territory, on the development of railway approaches to the port of Vanino: Turnover has increased. Investment in railways development has already yielded good results. Last year 4 billion rubles were invested in the Reconstruction of BAM area. Port Vanino is very important project -, Sovetskaya Gavan. According to the volumes, declared by investors, today there are up to 100 million tons. They say such figures will be reached by 2020. That is why this project was launched in time. Now people go to work, and considerable results are reached, including revenues in the budget.

Digest

Asia-Europe container cargo soars Westbound shipments from Asia to Europe rose nearly 11 percent in January...
Ocean carriers reactivate some idle box ships Laid-up ships are returning to active service with the introduction of new services, capacity upgrades on a few "loops" and additional extra slow steaming...
North German shipowners face perfect storm Yet most north German shipowners now run global businesses, not the regional operations Mann described. They control 35 per cent of the world’s container vessels, managing many of the ships that facilitated China’s export boom of the past decade...
Oil-tanker market expected to rebound with economy Oil-tanker companies, after posting heavy losses in the fourth quarter, are more optimistic for 2010 as the economic recovery is expected to stimulate oil consumption and boost shipping volumes...
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