News 2007 July 23

Integration of Severnaya Verf and Baltiysky Zavod to result in annual capacity of 500,000 dwt

Container loading of East-Siberian railway up 115.4% in H1 07, y-o-y

US ports aim to scan 'virtually all containers'

Azerbaijan exports 1.2 million tones of oil by Baku-Novorossijsk pipeline in H1 07

Krasnoye Sormovo Shipyard delivers its fifth dry cargo ship project RSD17

Lyse Gass and IM Skaugen set up a joint venture

Black Sea tanker rates fall to 3-year low

Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics gets Honda contract in Ohio

Shanghai gets NE Asia-New Zealand service

Pusan Newport gets CSAV shipping line

LA port clerks submit final offer in wage talks

Port-Active acquires 50% stake in M-Port

Damen Shipyards Ocean (Ukraine, Nikolaev) launches three vessels

Krasnoyarsk Shipbuilding Yard to invest RUR 1.22 million into equipment modernization

Throughput of Vladivostok Commercial Seaport exceeds 2 million tonnes in H1 07

Next round of consultations of Russia’s entry in WTO to begin

Oil price down to $77.64 in London and to $75.79 in New York

Flagship of Russian polar fleet to conduct research at North Pole

'K' Line launches 10-ship panamax building programme

Nordseewerke launches 2,700-TEU ship at Emden yard for Hamburg Sud

Suzhou Industrial Park's bonded cargo volumes rise 55pc

Shanxi foreign trade soars 84pc in first half of 2007

Port of Quanzhou sees January-June throughput increase 21pc