News 2009 April 8

Throughput of seaport Temryuk up 1.7 times to 659,560 tonnes in Q1 09

Throughput of Sea Port of Saint Petersburg down 18% to 2 mln t in Q1 09

Throughput of Kaliningrad Sea Commercial Port down 46% to 756,200 t in Q1 09

Throughput of seaport Kavkaz up 17% to 1.3 mln t in Q1 09

COSCO Pacific 2008 net profit down 35.8 pct

Brazil government to invest BRL795 mln in Rio Grande Port

Two Norwegian shipping groups cancel 11 vessels

Tallink’s ferries on the Stockholm – Riga service transported 920,900 passengers

Finnlines changes ro-pax service

China Exim Bank to extend RMB 160 bln in loans to shipbuilders

CMA CGM profit plunged 87 percent in 2008

Somali pirates seize Maersk ship with 21 Americans aboard

Lay ups could reach 1970s proportions: GAC

Saudi Arabia to launch $2.5bn training facility

All-Russia Forum "Current State and Prospects for Development of Russian Bunker Services Market" to be held June 25-26 in St. Petersburg

Japanese shipyard closes down

Commercial seaport Reni (Ukraine) cuts cargo transshipment by 44% to 483,000 t in Q1 09

Finland, Estonia and Russia propose changes to the system of sea lanes in the Gulf of Finland

FESCO takes delivery of first B-178 containership FESCO DIOMID

Port Yuzhny (Ukraine) plans increasing of its net profit 2.3 times to $31 mln in 2009

Ukranian MinTrans devised over 200 investment projects to the sum of UAH 80 bln

RZD states fall of freight traffic volumes by 22 % in March 09

RosPrirodNadzor and RorMorRechFlot to create an interagency group to monitor navigation-09

Specialized sea oil-loading terminal in Kozmino Bay to handle first tanker in Dec 09

Oil price down to $51.22 in London and to $49.15 in New York

Maersk Line ups general rate in the Europe to Middle East & South Asia trade

Kochi port throughput drop 3.34% in 2008-2009

RESO Garantia pays $605,000 in connection with vessel grounding

Bahamas port to accommodate world's biggest ships