News 2008 April 28

Federal Customs Service plans to transfer customs clearance from ports to dry terminals

Russia, Ukraine set up consortium for navigation safety

Moscow Railways resolves problem with commuter trains

Ten bodies pulled from sunken Ukrainian tugboat off Hong Kong

Eide buys Eitzen subsidiary

Salvage firm Smit Internationale may consider takeover bid

Transneft changes the route of Eastern Siberian-Pacific oil pipeline

ICTSI inks deal to operate Mindanao port

Shipping Corp of India seeks partners for ship-building, port, dredging plans

Gazrpom Neft ponders raising large loan

Strike at Moscow Railway blocks the traffic – RZD

RF Government approves rules for state regulation of prices and tariffs for services provided by natural monopolies at transport terminals and ports

Gazpromneft hopes to secure go-ahead to export oil to China in 2008

Alexander Ananenkov: Gazprom will continue to work with Russian manufacturers

Global ship orders could fall by more than half in 2008

Korea ups to sixth place in number of ships

China needs 147 VLCCs by 2015

AADA ups bunker surcharge from China, HK to Australia

Fujian to add 2,000 kilometres of railway in next 10 years

SOCAR to open Kulevi oil terminal in Georgia on May 16, 2008

APM Terminals JV to develop new Vancouver box terminal

Dubai World to invest $5bn in Nigeria

Jebel Ali set to take over Port Rashid’s cargo business

China COSCO shares jump over 10 pct after results

10-year lease at Brooklyn container port approved

Oil price up to $116.34 in London and to $118.52 in New York

Sunken Ukrainian vessel lifted from seabed off China - TV