News 2009 February 10

Cargo handling of Ukraine’s sea and river ports up 4.4% to 184.2 mln t in 2008

Throughput of Riga port up 12.4% to 2.5 mln t in Jan 09

New ferry line between Korea, Japan and Vladivostok to start operation in Q1 09

DP World opens new Doraleh Container Terminal

NOL loses US$149m in Q4 2008

Containerships starts a new weekly service between Riga, Klaipeda and Aarhus

Mitsubishi, Petrobras to build $830 million oil ship

YugTrans-2009 to be held on March 19-20, 2009 in Novorossiysk

In Tallinn Bekker Port to be invested 60 mln. kroons

Ukraine shipyard becomes a profitable subdivision

LUKOIL obtains a loan of EUR 1 bln

Sakhalin-2 will start exporting LNG next month

Gateway Terminals India Pvt Ltd expands capacity by 500,000 TEUs

Bourbon jumps after company posts 30% sales increase

Haifa to have the first privately operated port

Nigeria: 90 ships wWaiting to berth at ports

Tanker ablaze off Dubai port after boxship collision

Russian research ship sets off to probe 2007 Black Sea oil spill

Throughput of Yuzhny port (Ukraine) down 14.5% to 1.4 mln t in Jan 09

Throughput of port Vanino down 23% to 409,200 tonnes in Jan 09

Oil price down to $46.02 in London and to $39.56 in New York

Maersk sees Cape route a permanent unless Suez tolls cut

Piracy up 300pc in 2008, reports International Maritime Bureau

Shanghai's US-EU trade off, but 15.4pc more with Japan