News 2009 October 2

IMO auditors start working at oil terminal in Primorsk

KazMunayGas and SOCAR considering construction of new oil pipeline Baku-Black Sea

Helsinki port cargo turnover down by 21% in Jan-Sep, 2009

Stranded Russian sailors go on hunger strike in Dubai

Dalian Port plans Shanghai IPO

Maersk to replace Danish deck officers

Shanghai Dredging Corporation seals Brazil contract

India commits $4bn to 2009-10 port investment

Azov-Don basin cargo turnover up 1.6% Jan-Sep, 2009

Export duties on light and dark oil products are likely to become equal from Jan 1, 10

Freight One, Finnish VR sign agreement on management of JV

Container throughput of First Container Terminal (SPb) down 17.7% to 659,066 TEU in Jan-Sep 09

Throughput of Yeisk Seaport up 35.3% in Jan-Aug 09

Throughput of Sea Commercial Port of Illichivsk down 14.6% to 12.3 mln t in Jan-Sep 09

200 liters of oil products spill in Posyet port

BLG Logistics Group to build EUR 27-mln logistics center near Kiev

Oil transportation to the Russian Far East to lower in price

Oil export by CPC up 12.7% to 25.8 mln t in Jan-Sep 09

COSCO cancels car carrier contracts ?

ThyssenKrupp sells shipyard in Germany

Kawasaki reshuffles shipbuilding division

Almost 1.2 mln tons gasoil stored off Singapore -shipbrokers

Yangshan port box volume down 0.6pc in August

Hanjin Shipping launches new service from Muscat

India plans 25-year age limit on shipping vessels

Rickmers, Japan's ECL expand cooperation

Bundestag to vote on Hapag-Lloyd aid

Shipping Corporation of India delays fleet expansion

Panama Canal extends discounts

Oil price up to $69.19 in London and to $70.82 in New York