News 2008 August 29

NZ Tauranga port's full-year profit up 7%

Tecplata to invest US$350mn in new Argentine container terminal

Bulgaria ports to build container terminals with Japanese loan

Kenya to build a multi-billion container terminal

Buckeye Partners, L.P. сompletes purchase of Albany terminal

Greece's Piraeus Port posts H1 loss of 4.3 million euros

Evergreen Marine's Q2 net falls 35%

BTS signs agreement with Maersk Line

LUKoil's crude output drops 3% to 345.5 mln bbl in 1H08

North Western Shipping Company accepts 37 sea-and-river going vessels and tugs of Volga Shipping

Russia to strengthen emergency response forces at the Baltic Sea by Nord Stream launch

Rosneft reports record financial results in Q2 2008

China, Iraq reach deal to revive oil agreement

IHC Merwede B.V. sets up its representative office of IHC Holland B.V. in St. Petersburg

UCL Holding В.V. consolidates 100% of Universal Transshipment Complex OJSC in port of Ust-Luga

Equity International invests in Brazil’s logistics sector

The Port of Houston Authority approves $35M Bayport project

China's biggest iron ore port Rizhao to raise handling fees

S.Korea Hanjin Heavy wins $198 mn bulk ship order

Morgan Stanley warns on bulker cancellations

Tailwind Financial to buy 20 ships from Hellas’ GrandUnion

Evergreen's cuts Thamesport on its NUE pendulum service

Japan's vehicle output up 24.1 percent in July on overseas demand growth

CSCL launches container service to Thailand, Vietnam

Oil price down to $114.17 in London and to $115.59 in New York