News 2007 December 18

Throughput of Russian Railways up 7% in 2007, loading up 2.5% - Yakunin

Russian Railways to approve Transmashholding deal

Latvian-Russian border treaty comes into effect

ProLogis expands industrial platform in China

Aker announces more delays

Daewoo profits plunge 67% to 11.3b won

China shipping firms to expand oil tanker fleets

SECAs are not working, says DNVPS

European ports must improve transport links

Dip in US container traffic falls

Gazprom Neft starts supply of oil products for marine transport

Vopak, Gasunie to build Rotterdam LNG terminal

Tianjin Port plans to buy parent?s assets

Japan sets Russian hake quota in 200-mile zone

RF-Latvia BorderTreaty ratification instruments to be exchanged

Four seamen died in fire aboard fishing vessel off Sakhalin

Oil spill in Poland will not pollute Baltic Sea - ministry

S. Korea launches ice class tanker for Russia's Prisco

Commercial Seaport of Taganrog to raise throughput to 3 million tonnes by 2012

Polish oil slick may reach Baltic Sea by Sat.

Gazpromneft Marine Bunker plans to occupy 30% of Russian bunkering market by 2010

Iraq launches 1st oil tanker in 27 years

Norway plans world's first ship tunnel

Putin accepts proposal to become PM if Medvedev elected pres

Work on Port Said bunker terminal moves ahead

Korean shipbuilders expect overseas sales to top $30 bil. next year

Sinochem Fertilizer to build Logistics Center at Yantai Port

Medvedev officially nominated as presidential candidate

Oil price down to $91.29 in London and to $90.63 in New York