News 2008 April 9

Throughput of port Tallinn down 29.6% to 8.1 mln t in Q1 08

Throughput of Ventspils nafta terminals up to almost 4 mln t in Q1 08

Eastern Siberian Railways reduces oil shipments to China in Q1 08

Throughput of Murmansk Commercial Seaport up 16.1% to 3.559 mln t in Q1 08

China's top port builder's H2 profit up 55 pct

Shipping Corp of India to order 40 ships by 2012

Hanjin Shipping drops Hong Kong from its revamped Northeast to Australia service

Container maker Singamas more than doubled its second-half earnings

Singapore-listed STX Pan Ocean wins $300 mln deals

Rosprirodnadzor wants ESPO rerouted away from Khabarovsk water supply

European Union ministers have rejected two Brussels maritime safety laws

India plans to double port capacity to 1,500 million tonnes by 2011/12

Sinotrans Group confirms merger talks with CSC Group

Throughput of port Riga up 20.5% to 6.99 million tonnes in Q1 08

Captain of Kapitan Barinov ship fined 100,000 roubles for illegal crab catches in Kamchatka

Big Port of St. Petersburg may be handed over to the municipal jurisdiction

Throughput of Petrolesport OJSC up 13.2% to 1.77 million tonnes in Q1 08

Throughput of Taganrog Commercial Seaport down 47% to 243,720 tonnes in Q1 08

Yuri Kruk to head commercial seaport Yuzhny

Sovcomflot and Vyborg Shipyard conclude agreement on cooperation

Gulf tanker rates may extend decline

Pakistan National Shipping Corporation to acquire new vessels

Oil price down to $106.34 in London and to $108.5 in New York

ZIM’s East-West Express Service adds Hong Kong to its schedule

Hamburg-Sued shipowner not interested in buying TUI's Hapag-Lloyd

Indonesia ends port operator Pelindo's monopoly

Export of oil products via seaport Vitino totaled 1 million tonnes in Q1 08

S Korea's Daewoo shipyard workers to strike against stake sale

Krasnoe Sormovo net profit down 35.2% to RUR 132.2 mln in 2007