News 2008 December 24

Climate change opens northeast route to foreign ships - Ivanov

Antitrust regulator fines Rosneft $53 mln, LUKoil $51 mln

RF State Duma passes the draft law on biometric ID for seafarers

Measures supporting sea and river ports to be developed by year end – Sergei Ivanov

Japan govt asks Russia not to raise import duties on automobiles

Ford plant near St. Petersburg halts production until Jan. 21

Hutchison pulls out of Thessaloniki port tender

EMGS launches world's first purpose-built EM survey vessel

New seismic vessel coming up for PVEP

Hamburg Sud, Alianca change Americas service

HPH takes control of Amsterdam's Ceres Terminals

"Riga bunker samples off-spec": Lintec

MSC's and CMA CGM's mega ships to call at Busan

Maersk quits Charleston after ILA refusal to give up jurisdiction

Moody's cuts CMA CGM debt rating in face of heavy commitments

Proposed Charleston intermodal transfer yard sparks row

Oil price down to $40.36 in London and to $38.98 in New York

Russian govt commission approved list of enterprises to be supported