News 2008 June 18

Burevestnik OJSC to pay RUR 12.74 million as dividends for 2007

Rolls-Royce goes to Shtokman

Port of Antwerpen looks to invest in Indian ports

Analysts split as shipping rates continue to plunge

South Korean strike halts trade to the tune of US$5 billion

Hong Kong proposes incentives to combat shipping emissions

Weekly container service between Helsinki and Ghent will start in October

French strike blocks 37 tankers

TUI may sell Hapag-Lloyd without Hamburg real estate

ESPO first phase facilities to be put into operation in late 2009

Shanghai port ups trade volume by 7.4 % year on year

Ukrainian shipyard Zaliv prepares for the largest order since soviet times

Ussuriisk firm wins tender to build unique bridge across the Zolotoy Rog Bay in Vladivostok

Port of Tallinn focuses on container cargo

500th tanker load of oil pumped by Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline

Japan ready to cooperate with Russia as Pacific state - Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda

Throughput of Odessa port up 7.3% to 14.9 million tonnes in Jan-May 08

Oil price down to $133.72 in London and to $134.01 in New York

Sinotrans Shipping says parent in merger talks

HK's May up 1.6pc to 2.01 million TEU year on year, Singapore up 12.3pc to June 1

Shanghai holds transport logistics trade show

TUI chief executive tours Asia to find buyer for Hapag-Lloyd

DP World acquires stake in Spanish firm

Volker Wessels starts construction of Chinese Trade Centre in the port of Rotterdam

Liepaja Port to build two container terminals by 2017

Port of Tallinn gets strategy until the year 2015

Two foreign investors to bid for two Polish shipyards

Kalmar launches the world’s first straddle carrier featuring hybrid technology

Greenway invests EUR 1.3 mln into development of its container trucks fleet

Tanker Vasily Dinkov embarks on her maiden voyage