News 2007 May 29

Transneft's net profit under IFRS rose by 2% to 54.861 bln rub in 2006

Handling of the ports of Murmansk region up 2% in Jan.-Apr. 07, y-o-y

Government exempts tankers temporarily used as storage vessels at RF customs area

ABX Logistics partners with Vantec World Transport

Sembawang Shipyard wins US$221m contract

NOL shares gain on possible terminals sale

Hull & Hatch launches Indian Ocean loop

Hanjin and Heung-A team up on Korea-China-Indonesia

Orient Overseas Container Line takes its total order for panamax ships at South Korea’s Samsung up to ten

Singapore's Keppel to build US$191 million oil rig for PetroVietnam

COSL issues bonds on Chinese mainland market

Cargo owners are becoming drivers of port choice

Port of Cork (Ireland) plans new container facility

Shanghai builds China's biggest container ship

Team Lines to call at DCT Gdansk

Oslo Marine Group acquires Zapadnaya Companiya (port of St. Petersburg)

International seminar on «Baltic Maritime Safety Cooperation and Oil Spill Management Personnel Training» to be held in St. Petersburg, 05 - 06.06.07

Agreement on construction of near-Caspian gas main to be signed in September

MNP, Palmali and Marine Engineering Bureau present a project for construction of 47 tankers

Russkaya Troyka CJSC to start construction of container terminal in Vladivostok in 2007

Oil price down to $69.71 in London

Hanjin establishes Singapore tanker company

Russia president decrees Kaliningrad economic zone

Greek shippers demand to speed up the privatisation of container handling operations

RCL (Thailand) receives second's 1,108-TEU ship from China yard

Gulftainer upgrades Comoros facilities

Pakistan releases 1,100 impounded wheat containers

Port of Ningbo (China) plans initial public offering

Central Vietnam calls for port

Two companies to bid for Guaymas container storage area in Mexico

Melford International Terminal plans to build a $300-million US container terminal at the Strait of Canso

Dubai Drydocks World moves into Singapore maritime market

Mercator Lines mulls new shipyard in Palghar

Morocco sells state maritime company to France's CMA_CGM for 200 mln eur