News 2008 January 22

RF PM Zubkov signs decree to appoint Vladimir Kirillov new head of Rosprirodnadzor

Transneft and Sovcomflot sign agreement on cooperation

Oil spill response challenges in Arctic waters

Russia, China agree on protection of trans-border water bodies

Throughput of Lithuanian Railway up 6.5% in 2007 to 53.5 million tonnes

Yangpu port third phase to kick off construction

Gazprom's gas output declines 1.3% to 548.5 bln cu m in 2007

FECF lifts UK congestion charge

MISC in RM3.2b reverse takeover bid for Ramunia

WTO warns Pakistan on congestion

Mitsubishi awards a further five year UK warehousing contract to NYK Logistics

Maersk Line introduces a new BAF formula

Hamburg Port appoints Russia director

Throughput of Tuapse Commercial Seaport down 8% in 2007 to 19.6 million tonnes

Floating rigs temporarily taken into RF are given complete conditional relief from customs duty

Murmansk port investigates incident with tanker Usinsk near the floating oil storage

Deutsche Bank to lend $422 mln to Russian Railways

Volume of cargo transported by Ukrainian water transport up 5.6% in 2007 to 24.2 m t

S.Korea STX Group to set up $150 mln Vietnam unit

Blast on tanker at Philippine port

DP World to build container terminal at the busiest Peruvian port of Callao

Brazil to build a new $225 million container and cargo port

First vessel booked for new Turkish bunkering service

OOCL to launch new Asia Middle East (AIM2) service

China-Russia trade via Manzhouli reaches record high last year

Fesco to take delivery of containership from Polish yard

Kuehne + Nagel to provide logistics services for Siemens in Europe, US

Russia gets its first naval turbines

Viktor Khristenko: We continue to support Russian exporters by subsidized credit interest rates

Viet Nam to build several major seaports in 2008

Russian Railways wins $800 million Saudi project tender

Caspian Oil Fleet received international certificates

New union in the Russian shipbuilding

Siem Offshore Inc acquires PSV shipbuilding contract

Dubai World in $800 mln Senegal economic zone deal

Oil price down to $87.51 in London

Throughput of Kaliningrad port up 2.6% in 2007 to 15.6 million tonnes