News 2010 February 8

Tuapse Port Authority says grain terminal throughput to ensure exports by regional grain producers

JPMorgan forecasts a 5.7% growth in seaborne iron ore shipments, 3.8% for coal and grain this year

Transas deals to supply VTS for Volga Shipping’s 10 bulkers

Sovmortrans projects a Novorossiysk container terminal

Railways authorities of Baltic, CIS in Saratov, to coordinate rail freight traffics

Russian grain exports reach 1.54 million tons this January, up 52.5%

Throughput of Port of Helsinki (Finland) up 8 %, at 705.000 tons this January

Port of Tuapse launches largest grain terminal

Eurogate posts 12.45 million TEUs, a 12.3% drop in containers volumes

Heavy fuel oil M-100 spot price is average 8.570 rubles a ton

OZD railroad invests 4.3 billion rubles in handling facilities at the Gulf of Finland seaports

Ukraine Railways raises transit tariffs for several ports-bound cargoes

ZIM rises rates in cross-Suez trade

Evergreen Line rises Northern Europe to USA freight rates

Russian warship seizes group of pirates off Somalia

Maersk expected to have bullish year: Danish analysts

Yantian Port Holdings net profit down 19.6pc in 2009

Throughput of Kaliningrad at 175.9 thousand tons in January, a double decrease

Daewoo Shipbuilding net profit up 44% in 2009

Russian Register of Seaports includes Magadan seaport data

The Court of Appeal upholds FAS’s ERS decision

A Finland’s St. Petersburg-bound ship drops 3 containers, one with hazardous cargo

Grain terminal at Tuapse port to be launched today, Russian top official attends the ceremony

Start of Shtokman gas field production delays until 2017

7 rail cars derailed at East-Siberian station, oil spills

Oil price falls $2.54, to $69.59 in London, in New York down to $71.19 (-1.95)