News 2009 April 10

Throughput of Iljichevsk Commercial Seaport down 9.8% to 4.3 mln t in Q1 09

Throughput of Murmansk Commercial Seaport up 1.7% to 1.3 mln t in March 09

LNG tanker rate to stay low - Merrill Lynch

Iraqi premier discusses oil projects in Russia

Maersk moves from Southampton to rival container port Felixstowe

First Russian gas shipment to reach Korea on Saturday

Arcelor-Mittal plans captive port in Orissa

Klaipedos Nafta plans lower profit in 2009

Cargo turnovers of Latvijas dzelzcels fell down by 1.1%

Dutch exporters optimistic about rest of 2009

Throughput of Aktau seaport (Kazakhstan) totals 3.2 mln t in Q1 09

ENI (Italy) and Calik Energy (Turkey) to start building Samsun-Ceyhan pipeline in Q1, 2010

Damage caused by 2,000-tonne oil spill of 2007 eliminated in Kerch Strait

Iraq to build its biggest port with private investment

Terminal for transshipment of vegetable oils costing $7.4 is to be built in port Reni (Ukraine)

Oil price up to $54.06 in London and to $52.24 in New York

Navigation in St. Petersburg to start April 15, 2009

Port of Rotterdam posts profit of €151 million for 2008

Volga-Don Shipping Company fined by Georgia for M/V Uspenski’s violation of navigational discipline

Throughput of Liepaja port down 15.2% to 1.15 mln t in Q1 09

Dalian postpones box terminal expansion

Baltic Dry down 36% to 1,463 last month

Evergreen speeds transpac transit times to 12 days

Bulgarian shipping firm Navibulgar to purchase 10 new ships

Cosco Pacific to cut capital expenditures and port investments

'K' Line to trim container, ro-ro fleet 10pc over 12 months