News 2009 March 17

Throughput of Ust-Luga port up 21% to 1.2 mln t in Jan-Sep 08

Passenger seaport Giurgiulesti opens in Moldavia

Throughput of Ventspils port (Latvia) down 4% to 5.21 mln t in Jan-Feb 09

Container throughput of Big Port St. Petersburg down 39% to 178,000 TEU in Jan-Feb 09

Cargo transportation by Ukraine’s commercial fleet down 50.7% to 1 mln t in Jan-Feb 09

Maersk to upgrage Philippine service

United Arab Shipping to hike rates from April 1

Delmas announces two new ocean services

Shipping Corp of India defers expansion worth $1 bln

Greek-owned fleet up to 8.2% of the world’s total number of vessels

STX Europe posts loss of NOK 561 million for 2008

China's coal imports in Feb hit 22-month high

Sumitomo Heavy moves into suezmax building

Reconstruction is in process in port Vysotsk (Leningrad region)

Export of oil products via seaport Primorsk up 5% to 12.6 mln in Jan-Feb 09

First container train of project Trans-Sib in Seven Days leaves Nakhodka for Moscow

Throughput of Russian ports up 5.2% to 71.6 mln t in Jan-Feb 09

Norway eyes infrastructure hub near Russian border

Commercial Port of Vladivostok expands capacity of cargo reception during Arctic navigation

India-Europe box rates set to rise by $500

Caribbean tanker rates rise 12% this week

Maersk CEO says group needs no capital increase

A third of shipping lines face bankruptcy-experts

Clarkson FY08 profit down 29%

India’s Mercator Lines acquires jack up rig for Rs 1000 cr

Oil price down to $43.98 in London and up to $47.35 in New York

Lebanese government to launch a tender for the US$120 million expansion of Beirut Port at the end of April

Solemn startup of a new shop for abrasive - structural cleaning of blocks and hull constructions