News 2009 December 14

Turnover of St. Petersburg Big Port declined by 17% - to 46,58 million tons in January-November 2009

Over 11 months of 2009 throughput of Russian ports rose by 9% - to 454 million tones

Russia is considering the possibility of attracting Chinese investment to create a transport corridor Western China-Western Europe

S.Africa's coal port expansion delayed to Q1 2010

Philippine's ICTSI signs $100m loan agreement with Banco De Oro

Jakarta International Container Terminal signs loan deal to fund expansion

Jordan to expand container terminal

China's government OKs Tianjin port stake buy

MOL takes delivery of regasification vessel

Grand Alliance to introduce call at Vietnam's Cai Mep port

Vietnam's Saigon terminal gets two more box lines

Aker Philadelphia Shipyard finalizes settlement agreements with American Shipping Company and Overseas Shipholding Group

Throughput at Ventspils port (Latvia) in January-November, 2009 down 5.4 % to 24.49 million tons

Maersk opens logistics facility in Qatar

OJSC Sovcomflot and TNK-BP explore a possibility of fleet joint construction for transportation of mineral oil products through the Volga river

Petrolesport of St. Petersburg puts into operation a traffic interchange with the tunnel

Sea port Plastun customs office, a far-off post to carry out service procedure via Internet

Maersk to raise tariffs for terminal expenses of standard containers at the port of Poti (Georgia)

Cargo turnover at China ports in January-November 2009 grew by 8% - to 6,33 billion tons

Throughput growth at Novorossiysk port by 6% - to 78.8 million tons for January-November 2009

North-Caucasian Railway (NCR) completes the construction and reconstruction of artificial structures of Yurovsky-Anapa-Temryuk-Kavkaz line.

Port Posiet gets a 150 million rubles loan at TransCreditBank

The Turkish ship following from port of Tuapse, sank in the Black sea, there is a human wreck

China's Ningbo Port plans $1.5 bln Shanghai IPO

India's government to award 17 port projects to private players

DP World Maputo container throughput up to 13,700 TEU in November

Maersk to send 5 ice-class 2,500-TEU ships on Ecubex service

Maersk to expand US chassis program

Buyers postpone 20 percent of box ship orders - BIMCO

Salla 2 ship of Israeli ship-owner with a Ukrainian crew on board sank in the Mediterranean

OJSC "Vladivostok Sea Commercial Port" (VSCP) has launched a video surveillance system SecurOs

Latvia offers ports for Armenia’s cargoes to the West

Oil price up to $71.88 (+0.02) in London, down to $69.87 (-0,67) in New York