News 2008 April 21

Annual meeting of Petrolesport shareholders to be held on June 11 according to standard agenda

Transport throughput in RF up 4.2% to 1.251.7 trillion t-km – State Statistics Service

Dalian Port profit down 3.3% at S$118 million

Marseille port workers to suspend strike

Port of Mombasa to dredge and build the second container terminal

TUI says to approach shipping buyers within weeks

CKYH Alliance makes reducing bunker consumption a priority

Middle East bank plans to develop an energy hub at Kazakhstan's Caspian port of Aktau

Environmentalists block Port Everglades expansion

APM Terminals JV to develop new Vancouver box terminal

EUROGATE chooses Kalmar EDRIVE® straddle carriers for its Hamburg and Bremerhaven terminals

Throughput of Estonian ports down 26.8% to 3.59 million tonnes in March

Baltiysky Zavod OJSC completes production of the first screw for Genesis

Iran says oil price too low at 115 dollars a barrel

India's ADAG charts $1.2 bn foray into shipping

Philippines to cancel single-hull licenses

Iran included in Tokyo MOU list

Pakistan Government to review ports and shipping policy

World's biggest container maker expects demand to fall this year

Special economic zone to be built in port Vostochny

Gazprom Neft to double crude output to 100 mln t and refining volumes to 76 mln t by 2020

Russia signs WTO accession protocol with UAE

Hyundai Heavy to build first Korean-designed LNG ship

COSCO to establish JV with Global Putra for coal transportation

Oil price up to $113.92 in London and to $116.69 in New York