News 2007 November 26

VMTP and Severstaltrans to invest RUR 917 million into new container terminal

Employees of Sea Port of St. Petersburg terminate strike

There will be six seaports in Primorye

Gazprom to stick to Nord Stream timeframe despite ecology study

Putin signs decree to transfer 90.6% of Kamchatgazprom to Rosneftegaz

RZD to build a container terminal in Vladivostok

Leningrad region needs 300 kilometers of new roads for development of ports

Presidential election to be held on March 2

Ivanov seaks of importance of circular road around Petersburg

China Shipping receives approval for US$1.6 bln IPO

China iron ore ocean shipping seen surging by 2010

China and Russia agree to build oil refinery in Tianjin

Philippines braces for typhoons return

Rate slump pulls down Sinotrans' Hong Kong IPO 13pc

Port of Yantai container throughput up 8pc in first nine months

CIMC sets up Chongqing plant with 100,000 TEU annual output

Demand for storage facilities continues to grow in Shanghai

East-west trade lifts Marseilles volume 3.7pc to 826,000 TEU

Hamburg Sud to takeover Costa Container Lines

Dubai Ports awards $150-million ICTT project to Simplex Consortium

CMA-CGM Malaysia expects 1.6 million throughput at Westports

STX targets w20 tril. in sales next year

Sembawang wins $208 million conversion contract

RF Transport Minister supports project on construction of deep-water seaport in Archangelsk

South Korea eases shipping trust rules

Evaluation of new Baku Port Project to be finished by late December

Oil price up to $95.76 in London and to $98.18 in New York