News 2008 March 19

Primorye shipyards get united within FE Centre for ship-building and ship-repairing

Project of bridge to Sakhalin was discussed at "Round Table"

Throughput of Turku port down 16.57%, y-o-y, in Jan-Feb 08, to 580,300 tonnes

Deutsche Bahn acquires a majority in Spanish Transfesa

Cargo handling in Baltic ports in January-February 2008

New Zealand's Port of Tauranga to cut 78 vessel calls per year

RF Ministry of Transport to get RUR 452.6 billion in budgetary allocations in 2008

Throughput of Muuga Container Terminal up 8%, y-o-y, in Jan-Feb 08, to 26,420 TEU

US port unveils $19m port clean-up plan

RF Federation Council approves accession to agreement on privileges and immunities of the Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission

Ukraine to charge Russia for Kerch Strait oil spill

RF Federation Council ratifies agreement with Norway on differentiation of sea spaces in area of Varanger Fiord

Shipbuilding plant “Zaliv” lays down a hull of service vessel for ULSTEIN HULL AS

LUKoil plans to raise natural gas output 30% in 2008

First Deputy PM says Russia needs new ports at the Pacific Ocean and in Murmansk

TUI posts increase of 47% in operating earnings for 2007, shipping to grow 7% in 2008

UK James Fisher FY pretax pre-ex up 21 pct in 2007

HK up 3.7pc to 3.08m TEU , Singapore up 12pc to 4.6m TEU, Shanghai up 2.5pc to 1.8m TEU in February

Cosco launches Quanzhou-Manila container service

Kalmar to build 22 RTG cranes for South Africa’s Transnet Limited

Freeport of Riga ups throughput by 28.4%, y-o-y, in Jan-Feb 08, to 4.7 million tonnes

Oil price up to $105.56 in London and to $109.42 in New York