News 2008 October 3

TNK-BP to start supplying ESPO pipeline with oil from Verkhnechonskfield in Oct

Russia touts Caspian economic cooperation organization

Throughput of Ventspils port to decline by 10% in 2008 - Vice Mayor of Ventspils

Novolesexport to get $49.8 mln as a loan from Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port

Stolt-Nielsen posts Q3 net profit of US$42.3m

EC to spend EUROS8.5m on waterways “platform”

Ireland-based Liebherr wins Slovenia order for two additional super post-panamax quayside gantry cranes

Qinhuangdao Port coal stockpiles rise to 8.7 mln tons

Vietnam's Tien Sa port port to be upgraded

Petrobras opens $837 million Campos Basin terminal

Shipping Corporation of India to acquire 10 offshore vessels

Brazilian Companhia Vale do Rio Doce eyeing USD 4.05 billion CAPEX plan for ports

Wilsons Sons adds third berth at Rio Grande container terminal

Sakhalin Railway dispatches 103,300 tonnes of oil products in Jan-Sep 08

Antalya Port to ease burden of Izmir Port

APM Terminals to invest Rs250 cr in capacity expansion at Jawaharlal Nehru Port

Hurtigruten leaves service between Tromso and Harstad

Russian Railways signs major agreements on investment projects

Klaipedos Nafta exceeds its projected volume of sales in 2008

Sakhalin Energy nears first LNG export from Sakhalin - Sakhalin Energy CEO

Stevedores of Leningrad region up cargo handling by 1.6% to 66 mln t in Jan-Sep 08

Aries Maritime secures period charters for two products tankers

Daewoo Shipbuilding falls to lowest in over two years

Ryder to acquire Transpacific Container Terminal Ltd. and CRSA Logistics Ltd.

Wartsila and HHI open dual-fuel engine factory in Korea

Keppel Shipyard wins FSRU and FPSO contracts

APL, Hamburg Sud, Hapag-Lloyd and Hyundai Merchant Marine team up with Evergreen

Transnefteproduct president resigns, to continue running St. Pete oilexchange

Hamworthy extends LNG reliquefaction system installations to DFDE propulsion plant

LUKOIL and RF EMERCOM hold training exercises at Varandey oil export terminal

Transneft considers extending ESPO pipeline to China

Oil price down to $90.56 in London and to $93.97 in New York

Throughput of Vostochnaya Stevedore Company up 13% to 310,678 TEU in Jan-Sep 08