News 2009 May 6

Port of Shanghai container throughput down 20% to 2m TEU in April

China container cargo down 13.4 pct in April

Panama canal expects to award contract by July

Throughput of ports within Azov-and-Don Basin up 10.7% to 3.2 mln t in Jan-Apr 09

PSA, Wharf delay China port investment - official

Throughput of Archangelsk port down 29.6% to 1.125 mln t in Jan-Apr 09

Navigator to deliver 150,000 t of oil products to storage tankers in Kerch and Kavkaz in May 09

EU slaps 17-month block on Hellenic Register

Maersk increases rates in the Intra Euromed and Asia-Europe trades

Port of Tallinn handles 10.5 mln t of cargo in Jan-Apr 09

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

Assets of Baltic Coal Terminal up 45.4% to LTL 59.5 mln in 2008

Throughput of Murmansk Sea Fishing Port up 43.1% to 102,000 t in Jan-Apr 09

Kuwaiti companies to establish shipping fund

China's government approves Fujian free zone

Abu Dhabi National Tanker Company seeks VLCCs for floating storage

BOCOM offers 30 bln yuan loans to China Shipping

Charleston prepares final offer for Maersk

PortNews to hold Round Table “Bunker Convention in RF: shipping and insurance” on May 26 in Moscow

Xiamen Port rises 22 percent to HK$1.56 on China-Taiwan zone plan

MSC signs five-year pact with Charleston

Oil price down to $53.84 in London and to $54.12 in New York

3 storage tankers to be placed by In-Transit for off-harbor transshipment of export oil in port Petersburg

Klaipedos nafta cuts oil product transshipment by 18.6% to 2.4 mln t in Jan-Apr 09

Transit navigation starts at Volga-Baltic waterway