News 2008 October 15

Throughput of Latvian railway up 6.3%, ports – up 0.8%, y-o-y, in Jan-Sep 08

RTL Group clears a batch of automobiles in the Far East

Mitsui, K-Line to cut US container service

Brazilian port operator Santos Brasil expands operations

Keelung, Taichung ports see volume growth

Throughput of Russian ports up 1.6% to 340.9 mln t in Jan-Sep 08

Skaugen Group posts third quarter results

Westports Malaysia Sdn Bhd container throughput up 20 pct in Jan-Sept 2008

RailTransAuto delivers first regular train with Mazda cars via TSR

Throughput of Archangelsk Sea Commercial Port up 24.5% to 1.39 mln t in Jan-Sep 08

Throughput of Kaliningrad Sea Commercial Port up 5.3% to 3.6 mln t in Jan-Sep 08

Over LVL 200 mln to be invested in development of railroad and ports in Latvia

Baltiysky Zavod to deliver first batch of metal for Gazprom’s drilling platform in November

Panama draws $2.3 billion in loans to expand canal

Kazakhstan oil pumping by BTC to start in late October

Medvedev to appoint Kozak deputy PM for Olympic Games

Kaohsiung port's container handling volume unchanged from 2007

Samsung wins first conro order

Ulsan oil terminal sold to HHI

New bunker supply chain standard in Singapore

Crude delivery by Druzhba pipeline may resume on Monday – MOL representative

Farstad Shipping ASA signs сharter agreements

Singapore's Wilmar pays $9.6 mln for shipping stake

Somali forces storm hijacked ship, free crew

Crude transportation by BTC pipeline to Turkey up to 195.8 mln barrels in Jan-Sep 08