News 2008 February 12

Throughput of Mariupol Commercial Seaport down 70% in Jan 08, y-o-y, to 467,000 tonnes

Khorfakkan expands new Far Eastern service

K Line joins Central-China/Red Sea (CRS) Service

Clean up operation after oil spill in Caspian Sea to end

Port Klang Free Zone secures 4 new investors

Cargo handling of Archangelsk Sea Commercial Port up 60.69% in Jan 08, y-o-y, to 109,430 tonnes

NCSP acquires the second half of Baltic Stevedoring Company for $10.75 million

Throughput of Archangelsk port up 29.7% in Jan 08, y-o-y, to 0.3 million tonnes

All Greek ports to start strike on February 13

Throughput of the port of Helsinki (Finland) up 16% in 2007 to 11.9 mln tonnes

AS Nord Gas to build a 800,000-m3 terminal for transshipment of liquefied gas in Muuga or Sillamae

Panama Canal contracts under investigation

Sharjah container volume grows 8%

Oil price up to $93.53 in London and to $93.59 in New York

S.Korea's Daewoo to receive $20 bln Oman order

Throughput of the port of Kotka (Finland) up 3.6% in Jan 08, y-o-y

Marine fuel sales in Rotterdam up to 1.7 million metric tonnes in 2007