News 2008 October 31

Kenya's Mombasa port cancels tender for second grain handler

Wilh Wilhelmsen's 9-month operating profit up

MOL splits from PIL on S America service

Falling freight rates to hit Thoresen Thai

Mitsui, Kawasaki share prices up

China Merchants and Citic to develop a new port in Daxie in the Yangtze River region

OJSC "VMTP" increased net profit in 2.5 times RUR 479 mln in Jan-Sep 2008

Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding workers OK labor agreement

DFDS and Polferries to start to cooperate on the ferry route

St. Petersburg not acquires shares of Stella Naves Oy

RUR 460 mln allocated for construction of grain terminal of OJSC "TMTP" in 2008

North-West shipping company carried 3.9 mln tons of cargoes in Jan-Sep 2008

Admiralty shipyards float today Arctic tanker "Mikhail Ulyanov"

St. Petersburg can reduce financing Western high-speed diameter in 2009 because of crisis

Tax payments of «Sea port of St. Petersburg» amounted RUR 777 mln in Jan-Sep 2008

In St. Petersburg decisions on simplification of stevedoring companies operation made

Revenue of Oslo Marine's Western terminal up in 10 times to RUR 68.5 mln in Jan-Sep 2008

Concession agreement for Western high-speed diameter construction expected by end 2008

St. Petersburg authorities not exclude reduction of port dues for Stella Naves Oy

Throughput of Vyborg port up 22% to 944,700 tons in Jan-Sep 2008

Maersk ups Colombo presence

China Merchants and Citic Group sign up for Ningbo port investment

Taiwan Maritime Transportation Co. urges fellow owners to scrap more ships

Gangavaram port to be inaugurated in November

CMA CGM's Bangladesh operations license revoked

Oil price down to $63.71 in London and to $65.96 in New York

EU parliament acts to criminalize piracy