News 2008 October 22

PM Putin approves draft transport strategy of RF till 2030

NCSP launches new oil products terminal adding 1 mln. tons in capacity

Panama port traffic up 14.2% in eight months

Beirut Port Authority announced plans to expand Beirut Port

Shanghai port cuts 2008 container traffic target

Port of Gothenburg trusts Kalmar to supply empty container handling capacity

Russian Northern Fleet ships arrive in Turkey

Throughput of the port of Gothenburg to triple within 10 years due to development of railway transportation

Russian warship en route for anti-piracy mission off Somalia

PM Putin to chair conference on Russia’s draft transport strategy till 2030

Investors 'ready to back' Egyptian port project

Shenyang to become largest inland river port in northeast China

2012 deadline to scan all port cargo won't be met - US Homeland Security Department

Joint study measures the impact of ice on tankers trading in the Arctic

Euronav posts positive third quarter earnings

China Shipping profit rises 28% on oil-tanker rates

Highway approach to Zarubino and Posjet ports in Primorje to be reconstructed by 2011

Maersk's Boomerang service starts Chiwan calls

Iran's Bandar Abbas port up 15pc to 1.44 million TEU

Port of Auckland lifts cargo volume by 7% in July-September

Transneft on lookout for bigger loan

Commercial Port of Vladivostok ready for cooperation with Hokkaido

Oil price down to $90.56 in London and to $70.89 in New York

Port of Rotterdam throughput increased by 6.1 percent to 321 million metric tons in Jan-Sept 2008