News 2009 July 29

LUKOIL starts transportation operations to assemble fixed offshore ice-resistant platform

Cargo turnover at Latvian ports up 0.3% to 32.3 mln t in H1 09

Russia to raise oil export duty to $222 per ton from Aug. 1

Owners back Baltic Max Feeder project

Rhinecontainer extends service and fleet

Team Lines plans to purchase slots on APL's Northern Baltic Express service

Varun Shipping Q1 net plummets, shares slide in April-June

Dalian Port sees substantial fall in H1 earnings

Ghana to spend $700 million on port upgrade

Russia interested in cooperation with GDF Suez on LNG market

Russian Transport Minister: oil transit via Ventspils Port unlikely to resume

Oil giant Rosneft reports almost 50% net profit drop in 1H09

FESCO takes delivery of the 1,730-TEU Vladimir container carrier from Stocznia Szczecinska Nowa

Hellas Signed Agreement with Russian Maritime Register of Shipping

RZD's board decides on placement of 11.3 bln rubles in additional shares

Oil price down to $69.88 in London and to $67.23 in New York

Bunker sales in Rotterdam down 10% year-on-year

China COSCO sees H1 loss amid shipping downturn

Hapag-Lloyd to sell box terminal stake for $446m

MOL adds first direct Da Chan-Japan link

Mitsubishi and Mitsui may get rights in the Sakhalin-3

Hanoi urges PetroVietnam to help Vinashin