News 2009 July 9

Port Vysotsky handles 1.6 mln t of coal in H1 09

Murmansk Transport Hub development is financed

China creates world's largest by-volume cargo port company

StatoilHydro buying Bahamas terminal for $263 million

Palmali Group to put into operation three 14,000-dwt chemical tankers in 2009

Cambodian vessel stopped for poaching off Sakhalin

Ship traffic at Ventspils Port limited due to strong winds

Throughput of Aktau port (Kazakhstan) down 26% to 6.6 mln t in H1 09

Throughput of Kaliningrad port down 26.4% to 6 mln t in H1 09

Russian exports to decline by $190 bln 2009

Throughput of Vostochny Port down 12% to 6.968 mln t in H1 09

Hanjin delays order for 8 ships to save $1.3-B deal

Merchant fleet needs 20% cut on oversupply - Louis-Dreyfus

RP to get 170-m loan from French government to build modular ports

Port of Gulfport expansion begins

Sri Lanka, China consortium sole bidder for Colombo container terminal

Marseilles Port plans to buy stake in Intramar terminal

Fos-Cavaou LNG terminal delayed to end-2009-CRE

Panama Canal to name frontrunner for $3.4 billion contract

Hapag-Lloyd shareholders agree to aid package

Oka Shipyard launches chemical tanker, project 00216

Oil price down to $60.43 in London and to $60.42 in New York