News 2009 September 10

Throughput of Russian seaports up 6.5% to 323.9 mln t in Jan-Aug 09

Throughput of Ukraine’s commercial seaports down 21.5% to 71 mln t in Jan-Aug 09

Port Vysotsky LLC expects 18.2-pct growth of coal transshipment to 3.5 mln t in 2009

Hanjin opens Chinese ship repair yard to foreign ships

Odense CEO quits his job

Boxes lost as ships collide off Rotterdam

China Merchants net profit down 14% in first half

Ship carrying iron ore sinks off Indian coast

Universal Shipbuilding Corporation launches a new VLOC for “K” Line

US to sign anti-piracy document

Evergreen Marine renews lease on pier in Kaohsiung

Nordic and Baltic ministers to discuss transport problems in Riga

Hanjin Shipping joins India – Far East service

SCF Primorye delivered

Added value in Russia's transport and communications is 10.2% down to Q2 2008

Shtokman gas to Lithuania

Throughput of Port Vysotsky LLC (Leningrad region) down 28.2% to 2.12 mln t of coal in Jan-Aug 09

Throughput of NCSP Group (Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port) up 8.2% to 58.14 mln t in Jan-Aug 09

Kherson Shipyard launches railway ferry Slavyanin project CNF09 for Anship

Kubanksoe River Shipping raised the credit

Estonia donates Leedo’s ferry business with billions of kroons

Dalian Port handling throughput up 12 % in August

Overseas Shipholding Group gets $389 million from China Exim Bank

First through Northeast Passage

Maersk divides Odense Shipyard in two

Oil price up to $69.83 in London and to $71.31 in New York