News 2008 October 7

Container throughput of NCC terminals up 18.2% to 1.3 mln TEU in Jan-Sep 08

Ryder to acquire Transpacific Container Terminal and CRSA Logistics

Kuehne + Nagel expands in Germany and Norway

Born terminal in the port of Rotterdam heading for quarter of a million TEU

Ventspils Port cargo turnover decreased by 10.7% in the first nine months of 2008

Maersk adds Hamburg call to its Far East services

ITF starts Baltic Sea action

OAO RZD increased the volume of cargo transportation

NSTP to fund urgent syndicated credit in the volume of $225mln

OZD to invest nearly US$ 5bln in 2009-2010

Throughput of Murmansk Commercial Seaport down 2.1% to 10.3 million tonnes in Jan- Sept 08

Throughput of Vostochny Port OJSC down 11% to 11.3 mln t in Jan-Sept 08

Oil price down to $84.44 in London and to $87.81 in New York

Evergreen Line, Yang Ming Marine and Cheng Lie Navigation launch a new joint service

Inpex to construct LNG terminal off Indonesia

Vancouver port buys crane

ASL Marine wins new shipbuilding contracts

Chinese port city Qingdao raises tax rebates for exporters

Revised MARPOL Annex VI implementation delayed

MSC to benefit from EMX service suspension

China’s container exports down 5% y-o-y

Norwegian shipping company Wilson buys two vessels for NOK 39 million

Stena Nordica stops sailing on the Karlskrona-Gdynia route

New South Carolina-Georgia port terminal would bring in $2.3B by 2020

Tanzania plans to build new ports