News 2008 December 5

First Container Terminal plans to handle 1.3 mln TEU in 2009

Murmansk Governor wants lower prices on fish transport

First Container Terminal to invest $42 mln in infrastructure and handling equipment in 2009

Transport Prosecutor’s Office to inspect companies supplying oil products to St. Petersburg seaport

DP World’s Jebel Ali Port wins Lloys’s List Award 2008

UK govt pumps ?1bn into misdirected transport projects, says PD Ports

Indonesian cap urged on port charges

Philippine ports fail November collection targets

Ghana port plans oil services hub after crude find

Zeppelin Group buys into SkySails

Iran interested to establish shipping company in Pakistan

New CMA CGM and Maruba South America service departs from Hamburg

Rotterdam port to increase dues by 1% in 2009

Gazprom to spend 80 bln rubles on Nord Steam overland section in 2009

Throughput of First Container Terminal exceeds 1 mln TEU in 2008

Commercial Seaport of Tuapse invests over RUR 16 mln in ecological projects in Jan-Nov 08

Oil price monitoring period reduced in Russia

Neftehim Ltd. enters Russian Association of Marine and River Bunker Suppliers

Russian Railroads Co. expects a 19% reduction in cargo traffic

Management of port Yuzhny sees no implications for performance degradation

Vietnam Ocean Shipping JSC launches new route

Cruise ship stranded in Antarctica

Somaliland offers ports to anti-piracy forces

Larsen and Toubro slashes shipbuilding ambitions

MEG-East tanker rates set to surge

Shanghai Port to buy section of Yangshan Port

Russian Navy to replace warship policing Somali waters after Dec.

German shipyards may risk one of every fourth order

CTSA lines reduce bunker surcharges 66pc over two months

Overall east-west container shipping capacity drops 6.7%

Oil price down to $42.28 in London and to $43.67 in New York

RZHD against Mintrans proposals