News 2007 September 4

Bertschi inaugurates new intermodal terminal in Port of Rotterdam

Record capesize rates set to continue rising

Gulf tanker rates may fall for second week

Chittagong (Bangladesh) opens new container yard

Shell and PetroChina in long term supply deal for Gorgon LNG

Nationwide strike disrupts Brazilian ports

Throughput of the port of Sillamae (Estonia) to be 1 million below plan in 2007

Russian United Shipbuilding Corp. equity capital to total $43 mln

Throughput of the port of Tallinn (Estonia) down 4.4% in Jan-Aug 07, y-o-y

Sakhalin-1 to be Russian Far East's only gas source

Export of Azerbaijan oil via Novorossijk totals 816.98 thou tonnes in Jan-Aug 07

China COSCO to buy $4.6 bln dry bulk shipping assets

Throughput of Berdyansk port (Ukraine) up 32.6% in H1 07, y-o-y

Russia ups oil production 2.8% in 8 mths, gas down 0.6%

Aton International increased a share in Akron

Russia may introduce grain export restrictions

Novolipetsk Steel posts US GAAP-based net profit

Rosneft plans to produce 103 million tonnes of oil this year

Capacity of Russia’s shoaled internal waterways to be recovered within 5 years

Russian-Estonian railway freight hits record low

Oil price up to $69.85 in London

Panama begins expansion of its interoceanic canal

Russia eyes construction of a deep-water port near Archangelsk

Iran to grab Indonesia gas contract

Shanghai trade surplus soars 63pc in July

APM Terminal Bahrain recruits 600 to run container facility after new investment

Port Qasim Authority signes MoU for building grain and fertiliser terminal

Israel to begin implement the CSI program at Ashdod Port

Titan Petrochemicals Group buys US$170m shipyard in Quanzhou

Maersk Giant spuds 15/12 well for Pertra

Fishing schooner runs aground on Sakhalin