News 2009 March 31

Far Eastern Transport group forecasts decrease of Jan-Mar throughput by 4% to 4.9 mln t

Aleksandr Gorbatko – new Director General of Volgo-Don Shipping Company

Winteb gets orders from Pella Shipyard

Maersk to raise rates from North America

Malaysia gets 992m yen grant for security from Japan

Revenue of FESCO Transport Group is likely to fall by 30% in 2009 – Sergei Generalov

Northport throughput down 15% in Jan-Feb

Severnaya Verf to be the only supplier of frigates to RF Navy

The crisis of Ukrainian shipbuilding branch

RF President introduces amendments into Decree on United Shipbuilding Corporation

Transport Ministry suggests using state guarantee mechanism for purchases of rolling stock

Former Director General of Yantar shipyard and his two deputies convicted of stealing RUR 4 mln

Throughput of Leningrad region’s stevedores operating in the Gulf of Finland up 4% to 16.6 mln t in Jan-Feb 09

Integration of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski ports to be completed April 1

Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore gets a new chief executive

China Shipping Container Lines to cut capacity

Stolt Tankers and SLS Shipbuilding go to court over tanker cancellation

MOL halts iron-ore carrier orders on declining demands

Vietnam National Coal to build a deepwater port

Oiltanking Odfjell opens tank terminal in the Port of Sohar

China Shipping to increase freight rates 100pc from April 9

Oil price down to $51.50 in London and to $48.41 in New York

The research vessel Basalt sinks in Avacha Bay; noone was hurt either

Two migrant boats sink off Libya, at least 21 dead