News 2007 August 23

RAS net profit of Murmansk Shipping Company up to RUR 444.5 million in H1 07

OAO RZD transports 162.4 mln tonnes of coal in Jan-July 07

Toll Holdings posts a 68 per cent rise in full-year profit

Peru to speed up sale of quake-hit port concession

IHI to build 3 mega ships for Nippon Yusen line

Somali pirates free Danica White

Stena Line orders two ro-pax pair in South Korea

Addax resumes bunkering in Senegal

Novorossiysk port prepares IPO

New Port in Dalian (China) to add nine berths

Evergreen Group Chairman Y F Chang awarded honorary doctorate by St Petersburg academy

India's Larsen & Toubro wins 70 mln usd shipbuilding order from Dutch firm

KONTUR SPb and Nevsky Mazut enter St. Petersburg Register of Bunker Suppliers

Russian research vessel picks up drifting polar station crew

Transportation load of Trans-Siberian railway up 54% in Jan-July 07, y-o-y

Russia regaining leading position in world’s coal mining - Ivanov

Two more companies enter Kaliningrad SEZ

Commercial Seaport of Vladivostok starts operation of car terminal

Iran begins construction of Bandar Abbas container terminal

AMB to open sports merchandise logistics centre in Shenzhen

Ningbo-Zhoushan port box volume up 37pc from Jan to July

GGL Line launches Singapore to Europe groupage services

Oil price up to $68.70 in London and down to $69.26 in New York

Chemtrade to expand Rotterdam Terminal

First private port to open in Israel