News 2010 February 2

Throughput of St. Petersburg’s FCT up 20.7% - to 76.403 TEUs this January

Net profit of the Port of Tallinn (Estonia) down 2% - to about $36.8 million in 2009

Rizhao port posts highest iron ore import volume in China in 2009

Myanmar to privatise business ports

Petrobras opens office in Rotterdam

Russian FCS sees a problem in oil product river shipments, to regulate control

The volume of containers handled by Sovmortrans JSC made up 40 thousand TEUs in 2009

Finnish government approves the support of Turku Shipyard

Russian Customs freezes changes in clearance procedure at Russian seaports until November 1st

GSP SA begins construction of Dzhubga-Lazarevskoe-Sochi pipeline from March this year

Government regulates subsidies for fishing ships construction and upgrade program

Belgorod Dnestrovsky seaport (Ukraine) invites bids for dredging contract

RVK-Finance freezes payments of dividend, troubled by financial pressure

Belarus Railway cuts its tariffs for Novopolotsk-Vysotsky oil transit this year

Vera Firm (Voronezh region) to manufacture casting propeller parts for military and civilian ships

Traffics reopened, delays caused by explosion accident

KOGAS to boost Russian gas imports by 2015

Vladimir Putin steps in, orders to resolve Kamchatka fishing boat issue

Kamchatka-bound "Golden Kolyma", to supply coal to the region

Building materials turnover by FCC at Russia's Black Sea ports up 3 million tons in 2009, a threefold growth over previous year

Somali pirates release cargo ship

Supertanker rates may jump 75%: broker

Marseilles Fos container traffic up 4 percent in 2009

Montreal container traffic down 15.3 percent in 2009

Volumes of oil products at Klaipedos nafta down to 709.610 tons this January, 10.3% drop

Kaliningrad ICC invites bids for insurance contract, berths facilities value at 270.000 rubles

Throughput of Illichevsk port rose 20.8%, to 1.469 million tons this January

An explosion comes off on October railway, no casualties reported

Oil price up $1.65, to $73.11 in London, in New York to $74.43 (+1.54)