News 2009 March 10

Throughput of Liepaja port down 24% to 600,400 tonnes in Jan-Feb 09

Navigator LLC to carry 1-1.2 mln t of cargo in navigation 2009

Program for port section of NEVA-2009 presented to ASOP Committee on port infrastructure development investment programs

Suez terminal rises 34% in 2008

Greece to cancel Thessaloniki port tender -sources

Sinotrans says to invest $388 mln in new ships

Ningbo Port aims for dual listing

Bulker and car carrier collision off Japanese coast leaves 16 crew members missing

Cargo throughput at Port of Shanghai ranks first in world for four consecutive years

Maersk to idle up to 25 box ships in 2009

Throughput of Archangelsk seaport down 36% to 426,164 t in Jan-Feb 09

Freight One boosts transport 4% in Feb

Russian oil export duty to drop to $108-$112/tonne April 1 - MinFin

Russian dry cargo carrier ran aground in Mediterranean

Cargo load in Klaipeda port decreased by 14.5% over two months

STX Shipbuilding (S.Korea) launches 51,000-dwt Prisco Elizaveta built for PRISCO

Gazprom, Rosneft ponder ordering ships

Cyclone leaves Sakhalin, Vanino-Kholmsk ferry line resumes traffic

Maersk to rise bunker charges

Hamburg Sud combines Med-SA services

Beijing urged to use tankers for oil storage

Kuehne + Nagel to acquire Norwegian logistics company

ICTSI revenues up 37% in 2008

Grain demand sends panamaxes soaring

Oil price down to $44.13 in London and to $47.07 in New York

OCTAL Petrochemicals and Port of Salalah sign cooperation agreement

Port of Mumbai to extend box concessions

U.S. ports' container volume drops in January and February

All India major ports 5 federations threaten to go on strike from 10 March

RF government to support shipbuilding industry

Tianjin Port Group to invest $1.87 billion in 2009

APL to increase freight rates Europe-to-Asia from March 15

Taiwan's Taipei port to open two container piers this week

Norwegian police let detained Russian cargo ship leave Bodo port

China's box volume posts continuous drop in February of 17pc