News 2008 February 1

Throughput of Yuzhny Commercial Seaport up 0.3% in Jan 08, y-o-y, to 1.72 million tonnes

Throughput of Murmansk Commercial Seaport up 28% in Jan 08, y-o-y, to 1.17 million tonnes

Russia's January customs revenue above target

Bristol to become one of UK's largest port

Russia hands over four shipping vessel captains to Japan

Port & Free Zone World, Russian Railways sign cooperation agreement

Russia hikes export duty on oil

Throughput of Vostochny Port OJSC up 11% in Jan 08, y-o-y, to 1.3 million tonnes

Vessel from Antigua and Barbuda brought afloat in the Gulf of Finland

Oil price down to $92.21 in London and to $91.75 in New York

Singapore's Keppel Corp wins 215 mln sgd worth of contracts from Maersk

Italian RBD Armatori places $180m order for ships

Maersk eyes $958 mln Halfdan field development

Poaching schooner detained near Russia FE coast after pursuit

OPEC likely to reject calls for oil quota rise

Latvian shipping company receives the twelfth tanker from Croatia’s shipyard 3.Maj

Hamburg port's 2007 container traffic up 11.6 pct

Ministry of Economic Development and Trade starts call for bids to create SEPZ