News 2008 July 14

Gazprom's oil division raises $1bln in syndicated loan

Russian Navy resumes military presence near Spitsbergen

Shenzhen slowed H1 volume growth

Aker Solutions wins two drilling equipment contracts

Estonia to invest a billion kroons in extending Muuga Container Terminal

DP World and Yemen Gulf of Aden Port Corp establish long term partnership

Falcon records 240 tonnes of export coffee cargo to Russia from Kochi port

Kolkata Port to open bids for container terminal

French company to invest EUR 500 million in Varna shipyard

Horizon Lines back tax break bid

Drydocks World seeks loans for Singapore buyouts

Protesters block rail line to Newcastle coal port

Baosteel, China Merchants to expand a port in eastern China

APM starts building Ukraine terminal

Kalmar signs new deal with Colombian port in Cartagena

Norwegian Skaugen Group posts half year pre-tax profit of US$17m

Throughput of Tallinn port down 31.9% to 14.79 mln t in H1 08

Government might help out Sevmash

Putin calls on oil companies to boost output

Operation started to evacuate polar winterers from ice-floe

New oil field found in southern Iran

India's Kochi port targets 15% growth in cargo handling this year

Westports Malaysia Sdn Bhd container throughput rose 17% in H1

Indian flagged vessels drop from 40pc of national fleet to 11.8pc

Maersk starts intra-Asia loop (IA-4) from July 21

Throughput of Klaipeda port up 20.5% to 15.82 mln t in H1 08