News 2009 June 26

BPS-2 will come to Ust-Luga (Leningrad region) in 2011-12 and will be managed by Transneft – Sergei Ivanov

Throughput of Izmail port (Ukraine) down 52% to 1.56 mln t in Jan-May 09

East-Siberian Railway (VSZHD) shipped more than 34,800 containers in Jan-May 09

Rongsheng confirms $500m order from Oman

Panama free zone losing $50m a day due to Customs strike

MOL secures car transport contracts in India

TransContainer to pay RUR 19.29 per ordinary share as dividends for 2008

India's Greatship boosts AHTS fleet

VLCCs shrink to 30: ICAP Shipping

Baltic Dry Index drops close to 2-week low

DB Schenker wins five-year Wilhelmsen deal

PetroChina to build largest refined products terminal in South China

Russian firm pledges to deliver frigates to India on schedule

Russia to take part in Indian diesel submarine tender

Transshipment of Russian heavy fuel oil via Estonian ports to cease in a year – Sergei Ivanov

Rosoboronexport, Thales sign cooperation memorandum

RF Navy will place order for frigate construction at Severnaya Verf in 2009

ICTSI launches expanded Brazil port

Daewoo Shipbuilding wins US$200mln order to build ferries

Commercial Port of Vladivostok to raise dividends for 2008 to RUR 0.113 per share

Hamburg stevedore HHLA to cut work hours for 2,000

Russia sends another warship to fight piracy off Somali coast

Russian FTS changes tariffs for container handling in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky seaport

Oil price up to $69.78 in London and to $70.23 in New York