News 2009 July 14

Medvedev calls for creating international court for sea pirates

Throughput of North-West Basin seaports up 2.1% to 106.7 mln in H1 09

OPK and Hyundai Heavy Industries made a protocol for mutual shipbuilding cooperation

Throughput of Sea Port of Saint Petersburg down 5% to 5.2 mln t in H1 09

Idle boxship capacity could hit 2m teu by year end

UK holds Rotterdam Rules consultation

OOCL announces revenue decrease of 42% for the second quarter

MOL, Rio Tinto sign iron ore transport deals

Marshall Islands fleet surpasses 50 million gross tons

Antwerp Port sees cargo recovery in 2010

Russian approval for Wilhelmsen Ships Service

Singapore June container traffic steadies from May

RUR 2 bln to be additionally allocated in July 09 for construction of SPb passenger port

St. Petersburg and Leningrad region to be integrated as a single transport hub – Sergei Naryshkin

Oil price up to $60.69 in London and down to $59.69 in New York