News 2009 October 8

Free IMO audit is completed in Russian ports

Free Port of Riga turnover (Latvia) up 1.9% within 9 months, 2009

Oil products delivery volumes ex Volgo-Balt to Saint-Petersburg port up 10% May-Sep, 2009

Greek shipping ministry to be abolished

Pirates mistakenly attack French naval vessel

Japanese stocks advance for third day, led by shipping lines

Goteborg builds a new facility for crude oil transit

Oil export pipeline service through the Varandey terminal amounts to 694.7 thousand tons, Sep 2009

Australia's BBI announces $1.6 bln recap plan

CMA CGM, Maruba and Hapag-Lloyd combine South America services

MOL to apply peak-season surcharge for Europe-Asia shipments

LUKOIL-Bulgaria Bunker company carries out 1,800-ton bunkering of the NS Lion tanker

Kaliningrad port administration approves access permit rules into the Russian part of Kaliningrad (Vistula) Bay

TransContainer launches service ex Russia to Armenia

Petronas, Gazprom in talks to expand gas ventures

GDF Suez eyes Asian shipments

Taipei Port berths 3, 4 to open in 2010

Evergreen re-launches FEM, cuts capacity on TPS services

Oil price down to $67.20 in London and to $69.57 in New York