News 2009 September 15

Conference "Beyond the crisis outline. New routes of water transport development" to be held Sept. 24 in SPb

Kleven Prosjekt IV (Norway) takes delivery of 2nd anchor handling supply vessel from Kherson Shipyard (Ukraine)

Ukraine’s sea and river commercial fleet carried 5.8 mln t of cargo (-57.4%, y-o-y) in Jan-Aug 09

Port of Auckland reports 74% profit fall in annual profit

Singapore container throughput down 13.8% to 2.28 mln TEU in Aug 09

NYK raises rates on North American routes

Somali pirates release Greek ship

DP World stops sale talks

Maersk rises Mediterranean-Africa rates

Estonia: transit rail freight carriage improves slightly

Russia to raise oil duty to $240.7 per metric ton from Oct. 1

Ust-Luga port (Leningrad region) handles large batch of Toyota and Hyundai automobiles

Russkaya Troyka acquires land in Vladivostok port for construction of container terminal

Transas supplies automated systems for three state basin departments of RF inland waterways

Russian, Chinese warships escort large convoy off Somali coast

FAS satisfies TAM’s motion to manage transport assets of 7 UCLH companies

EBRD to invest in Ukrainian rail transport

259.5-meter long container carrier calls on port of Klaipeda

NOL moves 7 pct less cargo in 4 weeks to Aug 21

Cosco Pacific sells logistics stake

Israel Corporation board approves ZIM transaction report

MISC Berhad to upgrade Halal service

CMA CGM, Maersk combine Latin America services

Trans-Pacific carriers to raise bunker charges

Oil price down to $67.44 in London and to $68.86 in New York