News 2009 April 6

Volgograd Shipyard launches new sea-and-river going vessel

Throughput of Nikolaev Sea Trade Port down 9.9% to 1.9 mln t in Q1 09

RAS net profit of Tuapse seaport down 14.2% to RUR 739 mln in 2008

Net profit of Murmansk Commercial Seaport up 6.6 times to RUR 970.8 mln in 2008

Throughput of Odessa Commercial Sea Port down 19% to 7.4 mln t in Q1 09

Stolt Tankers reports $2.5m loss in Q1 2009

Japan's first Sakhalin II LNG arrives from Russia

Hyundai Heavy Industries completes world's largest dry dock

Transshipment of oil products at outer anchorage of Kavkaz port to be carried out via a single storage tanker in 2009 – Harbor Master

Daewoo Shipbuilding, GM Daewoo may face restructuring

China Shipping to cut rates

Marseille port privatises stevedoring operations

Pirates seize British cargo ship

Shreyas Shipping joins alliance for Kolkata-Colombo feeder service

MSC to hike Suez Canal surcharges 5.5 times from April 15, 2009

Ukrainian Government forecasts double increase of seaports’ container throughput by 2012

Vostochnaya Stevedore Company handles first batch of Mitsubishi automobiles made in Japan

Eimskip lost $54m in Q1 2009

APM Terminals Bahrain opens for business

Taiwan's Kaohsiung Harbour to build deep-water container terminal

India's Paradip port cargo handling up 9.36% in 2008-09

RAS net profit of Vyborg Shipyard made RUR 401.8 mln in 2008

Linda Line starts operating on the route between Tallinn-Helsinki

Pirates seize German cargo ship

Germany's Duisburg port tops 1 million TEUs in 2008

Chennai port's 2nd pvt terminal to begin operations by month-end

Tuticorin port handled 4,38,548 TEUs in fiscal 2008-09

Chennai port net profit declines 36 per cent in fiscal 2008-09

India's NMPT handles 37 mt in 2008-09

Wuhan to build mega terminal complex

China's Sanduao box terminal starts construction

Oil price up to $53.47 in London and down to $52.51 in New York

China's Nanshan freight port to be operational in H1