News 2009 March 2

Throughput of Ust-Luga port up 9.4 to 706,900 tonnes in Jan 09

Oil export via Primorsk port down 2% to 6.49 mln t in Jan 09

Caspian CPC February oil exports fall 0.4 pct vs January

Petronet to raise Rs 2,200 cr for captive port project at Kochi

Hapag-Lloyd and OOCL suspend Montreal – Europe service

Maersk Tankers restructures Brostrom

ICTSI cuts 2009 capex budget by 50 percent

Asian Terminal Inc announces $14.9m expansion plan

Samudera Shipping Line posts $26.8 million 2008 profit

India to increase handling capacity to 1,500 million tonnes by the end of the 11th five-year plan

Karachi Port Trust launches new cement export terminal

MSC to increase rates on its trans-Atlantic trade from April 1

arnaca and Limassol port staff ends warning strike

Throughput of St. Petersburg port down 28% to 2.9 million tonnes

Approval of RF seaports’ limits should be completed in 2009 – Aleksandr Misharin

Varna-Kavkaz rail ferry service is put into operation

Preparation to International Congress of Fishermen started in Primorye

Russian International Register of Vessels numbers 241 ships with total dwt of 1.27 mln t

Net profit of the Tallinn Port up over 20% in 2008

Djibouti port attracts major shipping lines

South Korea's Daehan Shipbuilding gets state emergency loan

India likely to double LNG imports this year

Chinese containers export plunges in January

Fangcheng port's 2008 throughput hit 100,000 TEU

India's annual US$200b export target to fall short at $175b

Ventspils nafta profit reached 40.2 mln lats in 2008

Port of Qingdao volume up 2pc in January 2009

Oil price down to $46.35 in London and to $44.76 in New York