News 2009 December 17

Board of Directors of TransContainer approved development strategy till 2015

Radioactive cargo laden ships may call in Russian Seaport Kavkaz

JSC TransContainer to open a rep office in Abkhazia

Large Tanker "Kirill Lavrov" to be launched on December 18th

Customs clearance of vehicles below the environmental standard Euro-4 in Russia to be abolished in 2010

Baltic Customs detained thousands of counterfeit goods this year

Port of Taman to handle 75.61 thousand tons of vegetable oil for 11 months in 2009

New TS Warehouse for cargo passing through Irkutsk Customs Office

Illichivsk seaport continues handling cargoes though rough weather

China Merchants Holdings to form 50-50 JV in Qingdao

Finnish government rejects ECA emission limits

Maersk agrees $498 mln sale of Norfolkline to DFDS

Asian Terminals may get Philippine Batangas port contract soon

Capacity of port Kavkaz for January-November 2009 up by 14.58% to 7.5 million tons

Port capacity in Temryuk for January-November 2009 down by 6.67% to 1.9 million tons

FAS Russia considers Kuibyshev railroad actions on overrating of non-public railway tracks use to be unfounded

EBRD Board of Directors to give $ 100 million loan to FESCO Transport Group

Over 6 million tons turnover expected at Vladivostok port by the end 2009

Russia and Belarus to create conditions to boost freight traffic in the Kaliningrad area

Jack Hayward sells Freeport stake

Daewoo Shipbuilding wins $300 mln Italy ship order

OOCL to raise Hong Kong – Australia rates

Los Angeles-Long Beach container volume up 17.8 percent in November

Oil price up to $73.55 (+1.50) in London, to $72.66 (+1,97) in New York