News 2009 September 8

Throughput of Odessa Commercial Sea Port down 22.2% to 18.43 mln t in Jan-Aug 09

Throughput of Murmansk Commercial Seaport up 12.5% to 10.45 mln t in Jan-Aug 09

Throughput of Liepaja port down 6.4% to 2.71 mln t in Jan-Aug 09

The hundredth batch of oil shipped from Varandey terminal in Barents Sea

Throughput of First Container Terminal (SPb) down 19.2% to 575,300 TEU in Jan-Aug 09

Nordic Ferry Services gets a new chairman

Dubai cruise terminal may open in January

CMA CGM terminal secures $37 million loan

Port Klang dredging to finish by December

Wuhan plans Asia's biggest river port

Evergreen revises Asia-Europe surcharges

Hanjin's ZESCO yard gets approval for foreign shiprepair

Cargo vessel sinks off Philippines coast

GE Capital sues Zim for contract violation

Indian government to award INR 20,000 crore port projects

Port of Rotterdam Authority to invest 370 million in the port this year

Maersk loads Ro-Ro at Portsmouth

Throughput of Vostochny Port OJSC down 6% to 9.84 mln t in Jan-Aug 09

Throughput of Kaliningrad Sea Commercial Port down 2.4 times to 1.42 mln t in Jan-Aug 09

Throughput of Klaipeda port down 13.7% to 17.84 mln t in Jan-Aug 09

Throughput of Aktau port (Kazakhstan) up 31% to 9.7 mln t in Jan-Aug 09

Cargo turnover at Freeport of Riga grew by 19.4% in August 2009

Barents Rescue joint exercises begin in Murmansk

Slesers: investments in Riga Port to reach several hundred million lats