News 2008 May 16

Net loss of shipbuilding plant Severnaya Verf up RUR 5.3 mln to RUR 120.8 mln in Q1 08

Loading at Oktyabrskaya Railway up 5.7% to 36.9 million tonnes in Jan-Apr, 08

Russia-Mongolia trade to exceed $1 bln - Medvedev

Net profit of Almaz Shipbuilding Company down 3.46 times to RUR 3.64 million in Q1 08

Samskip adds Greece to its pan-European multi-modal network

Gazprom inks memo to supply Canada’s Rabaska terminal

Russian Railways to pay dividend for 2007

Hyundai Heavy gets 1.2b won in delivery bonuses

Infrastructure firm bags $1.9b India's Vizhinjam port project

Non-CIS imports up 52.4% in Jan-Apr - FCS

TUI posts higher Q1 loss of 166.8m euros

Ukraine joins WTO

Oil export via port Primorsk up to 24.4 million tonnes in Jan-Apr, 08

Throughput of Big Port of St. Petersburg up 6% to 18.6 million tonnes in Jan-Apr, 08

Throughput of Izmail commercial seaport (Ukraine) up 4.7% to 2.6 million tonnes in Jan-Apr, 08

Throughput of port Hamina (Finland) up 11.8% to 1.8 million tonnes in Jan-Apr, 08

Throughput of port Kotka (Finland) up 12.3% to 3.75 million tonnes in Jan-Apr, 08

RAS net profit of Petrolesport up 1.9 times to RUR 537.5 million in Q1 08

A.P. Moeller-Maersk announces Q1 results

Bulgaria’s government approves the sale of 70% in Navibulgare

Scottish operator Svitzer Marine increases bunker surcharge

HK's April up 1.3pc to 2.04 million TEU, Singapore up 12.5pc from January through April

Guangzhou Port Q1 box throughput surpasses Kaohsiung, Rotterdam

Schenker builds new freight forwarding terminal in Austria

Two foreign crabbers seized in Russia's Far East

Philippine SBITC opens New Container Terminal-1

Oil price down to $121.25 in London and to $124.12 in New York