News 2008 February 6

Oil output to grow in Russia

Gazprom Neft annual output unchanged

Container throughput of NCC terminals up 16.5% in Jan 08, y-o-y, to 129,411 TEU

Kalmar launches fully-automated Autoshuttle

Hapag-Lloyd and NOL could merge

Throughput of Petersburg Oil Terminal totals 936,000 tonnes in Jan 08

Throughput of port Temryuk down 19% in Jan 08, y-o-y, to 65,700 tonnes

Throughput of port Kavkaz up 10.4% in Jan 08, y-o-y to 369,300 tonnes

Samsung Heavy's 2007 earnings more than triple

Turkey shuts Bosporus, Dardanelles straits on fog

Palmali acquires 70% stake in Serbia’s Jugoslovensko Recno Brodarstvo

COSCO diverts ships for domestic coal transportation

Russian fish exchange to start operation in 2009 – National Fisheries Committee

Kuwait's Agility to acquire Starfreight Logistics

Oil price down to $88.82 in London and to $88.41 in New York

Xiamen Haicang port area box volume reaches 1.88 million TEU

Shanghai's Waigaoqiao Bonded Logistics Park trade value rises 85pc

Singapore launches truck-side container traffic system

India's Container Corp sees 16pc increase in Q4 earnings

Throughput of Ukraine’s state ports up 9.9% in 2007 to 123.73 million tonnes

PetroChina wins approval for its LNG project in Dalian

AP Moller Maersk to sack 200 Danish shipping staff

ABG Infralogistics to sell stake in ABG Kolkata Container

Ukraine signs deal opening way to WTO accession