News 2008 June 10

OPEC reference basket reaches $130.87 per barrel

Loading of Oktyabrskaya Railway up 4.4% to 46.5 mln t in Jan-May 08

Helsinki encourages cruise ship companies to protect the Baltic Sea

Norwegians buy Murmansk engineering company

French group to build LNG terminal in Dunkirk

OSG ups dividend by 40%

Peugeot-Citroen, Mitsubishi open joint venture in Russia

Transshipment of transit cargo in Finnish ports up 39.3% to 2.5 mln t in Jan-Apr, 08

Throughput of Archangelsk port up 12.9% to 2.1 mln t in Jan-May 08

British rail maintenance workers to strike

New Russian nuclear icebreaker 'will be built by 2015'

Ust-Luga port can be among the first to receive the status of a special economic zone

China Merchants to shift focus to Chongqing-based logistics business

Eitzen Maritime Services buys Seven Seas for US$115m

LR prepares for “Bill of Rights”

Odfjell sells parcel tanker

EC clears AP Moller purchase of Eurogate Hoding

Strike intensifies at French oil port

Oil price down to $133.91 in London and to $134.35 in New York