News 2008 April 3

Throughput of Port Vysotski up 3.7% in Q 1 08 to 973,259 tonnes

Interforest Terminal Rotterdam completes investment programme

RAS net profit of Zvezda OJSC down 4.6 % to RUR 22.7 million in Q4 07

CEVA announces four developments in Italy

Rotterdam Europe's major shortsea port

Chinese port of Dandong to start expansion

Strike renews public-private sector docker strife in Marseilles

Singapore's Neptune Orient Lines box trade grows 10pc in February 2008

India’s JNPT sees throughput up 23to 4m TEUs

Japan logistics companies unite for Hong Kong express service

Hanjin Shipping revamps its China-Australia service

ICTSI beats Maersk to Mindanao terminal project

Throughput of National Container Company up 21.1% to 423,103 TEU in Q1 08

17 companies fined in the North West by RosPrirodNadzor for oil spills in 2007

Norilsk Nickel raises its share in Archangelsk Sea Commercial Port to 73.23%

Feasibility study for major oil pipeline to be approved soon

Russian Railways to attract $6 bln by 2010 by selling stakes in subsidiaries

Throughput of Vostochnaya Stevedore Company up 16% in Q1 08 to 92,756 TEU

First amounts of oil pumped into ESPO trunkline

New Maersk Line BAF formula: North/Latin America - East Africa trade and Pacific trade

Bunker levy could boost fuel saving technologies

Singapore's Neptune Orient Lines box trade grows 10pc in February

MOL offers two new direct shuttles between Asia and the US West Coast

Ports of the world look to Sweden to reduce their environmental impact

China Shipping and Baosteel to set up Guangzhou shipbuilding jv

St. Petersburg seaport administration is renamed

Cuba, Russia take big step in developing bilateral relations

New owner of Damen Shipyards Ocean (Ukraine) is FLC West Holding (Luxemburg)

Oil price up to $103.75 in London and to $104.83 in New York

Throughput of Russia’s southern ports up 1.3% to 161.9 million tonnes in 2007