News 2007 May 18

Throughput of the ports of Estonia up 3% in April 2007

Throughput of Iljichevsk Commercial Seaport (Ukraine) up 2.9% in April 2007

Lisichansk Refinery (Ukraine) to decrease output by 6% in May, 2007

Coal, iron ore shipping rates fall after record rise

North Korean cargo ship to make historic call at Busan

Work begins on Charleston's new container terminal

Germany, Italy, Finland top 2006 EU exporters to Russia -Eurostat

Nakhodka Commercial Seaport (Far East) opens new shipping line to the port of Brownsville (USA)

Hyundai Heavy Industries launches PRISCO’s first Suezmax tanker

Vinashin gets 8% per annum interest with investment

Govt. puts Rosneft back on strategic list to deter stake decline

Prosecutor says police fail to fight poaching in Far East

Oil price makes $70.27 in London, and $64.86 in New York

Latvia favors laying Nord Stream pipeline onshore rather than seabed

Container fears drive COSCO to ports move

Kazakhstan to start building a $5.2 billion petrochemical plant

Hong Kong falls to third place among world container ports

Boskalis signs US$60m contract with Hutchison Port Holdings

China's rail network set for break-up into five companies

MSC, Conbulk buy three upgraded 2,680 TEU ships from Maersk

New S.Africa container terminal should be ready by 2009

France’s Le Havre Port seeks links with Vietnamese businesses