News 2009 September 9

OPK shipyards launch a platform supply vessel

Russian fisheries agency urges foreign investors’ help

Teekay Offshore Partners to buy vessel for $320 mln

Hutchison Whampoa plans to sell $3 billion of bonds

Singapore, Hong Kong lead world in trade and port index

Port of Rotterdam sees lower revenues in H1

OOCL announces rate increases on Asia - Australia services

The biggest monthly cargo turnover in Klaipeda port in August 2009

Gazprom Neft posts 56.5% U.S. GAAP net profit drop in 1H09

Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port pays dividends for 2008

Sailors in Russia's Far East set for hunger strike over wage arrears

Volume of cargo transported by LDz Cargo increased by 1.1% in

Throughput of Commercial Port of Vladivostok down 5.8% to 3.87 mln t in Jan-Aug 09

Throughput of Archangelsk Sea Commercial Port down 29% to 855,600 t in Jan-Aug 09

First grain cargo from Belarus handled at Ventspils Grain Terminal

Throughput of Ventspils port down 0.8% to 19.09 mln t in Jan-Aug 09

Throughput of Vanino Port down 11.9% to 3.99 mln t in Jan-Aug 09

CMA CGM, Maersk and Hyundai to suspend USEC service

Tianjin plans to build the biggest China's northern shipping hub by 2015

Liner companies loss more than $6 billion in H1

Hong Kong port cargo throughput down 9% in Q2

Oil price up to $69.42 in London and to $71.10 in New York