News 2009 February 24

Novorossiysk tanker Parade is in distress in the Sea of Okhotsk

Loss of Ukrainian Danube Shipping Company up to UAH 65.3 mln in 2008

Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port ups grain transshipment by 5.4% in Jan 09

Wadan Yards gets EUR 180-mln loan from German government

CMA CGM seeks general rate increase on most trades

Baltic dry freight index touches 4-month high

Pirates free crew abducted from Malacca Straits

Mormugao Port Trust to hit 40m tonnes this financial year

India’s Krishnapatnam port secures $161m investment

American Commercial Lines secures credit facility extension

Zim announced 'winter programme'

Australia regulator calls time on coal queue system

RZD suspends grain shipment to the port of Novorossiysk

Russian Navy to continue important patrols around the world

LDz: handling of potassium salt to continue at Latvian ports

Lithuanian Minister Masiulis dissatisfied with progress of erecting Klaipeda passenger and cargo terminal

FTS sets USD tariffs for handling and storing of ex-im cargo by Vostochnaya Stevedore Company

PRISCO “Zaliv Amerika” tanker rewarded for safety and trouble-free operation during 2008

RZHD invested RUR 9.7 bln in the crude transfer to China

Nippon Yusen may double scrapping of auto carriers

China's Beihai Port suspends $325 mln asset buy

Khalifa Bin Salman Port set to start operations

Moller-Maersk arm eyes stake in UK port

Lagos ports, oil terminals to handle 152 ships this week

Taipei launches 1.1 million TEU container terminal

Grand Alliance to re-route EU3 service via Cape of Good Hope

Oil price down to $40.99 in London and to $38.44 in New York