News 2008 April 18

St. Petersburg Oil Exchange to start real trading in late 2008

LUKOIL completes reconstruction of Odessa refinery and puts it back to operation

Kazakhstan planning to introduce export duty on metals

Russia may occupy up to 7% of the global market of specialized vessels

CKYH Alliance agrees on service rationalisation

Nantes strike blocked 11 ships

Maersk Tangier port to handle 1 mln TEU this year

Virgina Port Authority and Morocco's Tangier Mediterranean Special Agency sign trade pact

Port of Montreal announces a 12-year development plan

Russian First Deputy Prime Minister says new seaport should be built in Murmansk

Foreign firms in Sea of Okhotsk predatory, shelf borders must be defined- Ivanov

Legal expression of rights to continental shelf to expand territory

Economy Ministry posts Russia's Q1 foreign trade

Sovcomflot IAS net profit up 30.8% to $470.8 million in 2007

Stolt-Nielsen S.A. reports unaudited first quarter of 2008 results

Billionaire Fredriksen becomes TUI's main investor

Maxicon Container plans direct Myanmar service soon

Hamburg Sud to up capacity from Far East to west coast South America

Transportation Investments Holding Limited makes an offer to purchase 15% of Petrolesport shares

Oil price down to $112.43 in London and to $114.86 in New York

Eukor secures long-term contract for Korean car transports

NYK, Hapag-Lloyd, RCL, HMM to launch new joint India-China service by end of month

Singapore's Sembcorp to operate Brazil shipyard

Vinashin reports a revenue of US$318.7 million in first quarter of the year