News 2008 May 21

EU approves holding talks on partnership accord with Russia

TransContainer and TrasGroup to build a container terminal in port Zarubino

Ukraine demands closure of Russian base in Crimea in 2017

Azerbaijan's oil output up 14.1% in January-April

Net profit of Murmansk Shipping Company up 2.6 times to RUR 760.2 million in 2007

India's US$305 million container terminal at the Ennore Port gets 22 bidders

Hamburg city acquires a 20 percent stake in a consortium that plans to make a bid for Hapag-Lloyd

Baltic Dry Index extends record in London trade

Gevelco to expand DistriPort in the port of Rotterdam

Thoresen Thai Agencies Plc (Thailand) reports fiscal Q2 profit

Maersk cuts speeds on Europe/Middle East route

EU needs 140 extra handysize tankers for biofuels by 2015 - Port of Rotterdam

Federal National Council demands equal treatment for Emiratis at US ports

Taiwans Yang Ming Marine expands ship fleet

Shipping Corporation of India plans to double fleet of offshore supply vessels

Piracy figures up by 20% for first quarter of 2008

Evergreen announces new Taiwan-China-Australia Express

Cosco plans to buy stake in the Greek port of Piraeus

Maersk recasts east coast South America-Europe service

Seaports of Odessa region (Ukraine) handled 34.3 million tonnes of cargo in Jan-Apr, 08

Gazprom says $1 bln deal to buy Kovykta gas field delayed

Russian Railways eyeing stake in Deutsche Bahn

Vladimir Putin appoints Andrei Dementyev and Denis Manturov deputy Ministers of Industry and Trade

Port of Goteborg expands the boundaries

Oman, Netherlands and India link in new mega project for Sohar Port

Vale (Brazil) may invest US$ 1 billion in Oman

SOCAR acquired 65% of the stake in Caspian Shipbuilding Factory

Backlog of orders of Baltiysky Zavod makes RUR 10 billion till 2010

Azerbaijan lays pipeline across Caspian seabed for Russia

Commercial Seaport of Tuapse OJSC gets certificate of safe vessel operation under international standard

Kalmar to deliver 19 icon series terminal tractors to National Container Company

Oil price up to $127.84 in London and to $103.83 in New York