News 2009 June 16

Russian Transport Lines opens temporary storage warehouse in Rostov region

FAS will complete rules for equal access to railway services

Chile's mining minister eyes start of LNG terminal

NYK wins Nissan contract

Teekay to launch long range tanker pool

Wartsila launches new services package for ship lay-ups

National Chemical Carriers and Odfjell sign a 50/50 joint venture agreement

Zim to up rates from Asia to Europe & Mediterranean

MPA of Singapore to launch financial assistance scheme for bunker surveying companies

Port of Long Beach box volume drops 21 percent in May

Westports sets new record in container ship handling

Russian ports up in Rotterdam ranking

Lithuania and Belarus to develop shipping via domestic water ways

Severnaya Verf launches supply vessel built for Siddis SkipperII AS (Norway)

Train services in Finland have resumed

Construction of 2.5-mln t grain terminal in port Novorossiysk to start in September 09

Throughput of Sea Port of Saint Petersburg down 26% to 17.9 mln t in Jan-May 09

Gazprom must extend pipelines by 2,000 km for South Stream project -Deputy CEO

Throughput of Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port up 11.4% to over 36 mln t in Jan-May 09

Trans-Asia Railway Network to link 28 APR countries and regions

Singapore's Jan-May container throughput down 18% to 9.93 mln TEUs

Throughput of Helsinki port down 28% to 3.46 mln t in Jan-May 09

Vnesheconombank becomes major Lukoil shareholder

Germanischer Lloyd plans to slash 380 jobs

Port of Antwerpen looks to strengthen Chinese relations

Maersk may acquire Italy-based Eni's North Sea oilfields

Cargotec gains two ship-to-shore crane orders for Latin America

Hanjin to launch Vietnam-US direct service from June 21

Oil price down to $69.44 in London and to $53.2 in New York