News 2009 November 24

Severnaya verf (St.-Petersburg) to lay the keel of frigate Fleet admiral Kasatonov on November 26, 2009

Lower Don and Azov-Don canal transit navigation over from December 2

Tallink stops Rostock–Helsinki service for two months

Israeli ports container throughput down 4% to 1.5 TEU in January - September '09

Ireland's Q3 shipping traffic falls 20% to 268,357 TEU

Drydocks World-Dubai announces first Offshore LNG Regasification Terminal conversion project

Murmansk port and Sovcomflot on privatisation list

Overall RF oil export volume up by 1.4%, Jan.-Oct. 2009

St.-Petersburg waterways navigation over from December 1, 2009

Shiprepair-Baltic LLC (Kaliningrad region) suspends its operation due to absence of orders

20% of capesizes stuck in ports

MOL signs 10-year contract with Jiangsu Shagang Group

MSC hikes US-Asia rates US$150-$225/TEU from January 1

Hapag- Lloyd to post 2010 loss - owner

Renovation project of Nevelsk Seaport (Sakhalin) approved at public hearings

COSCO hikes rates on its services

RF Ministry of Industry and Trade drafts Government regulation on construction of South Centre of Shipbuilding and Shiprepair OJSC

Oil price up to $77.46 in London and to $77.56 in New York