News 2010 February 9

Delta Shipping Lines opens a container line to the terminal of Petrolesport (St. Petersburg)

Finnish Viking Line cancels a ship contract due to backlog in the construction

Russian and Estonian Railways to cooperate in fright transportation

Oil spill at Illichevsk Port, shipowner blamed to pay $ 260.000

FCC deals to supply 70.000 tons of fertilizers to Vietnam

Throughput of Astrakhan Railroad up 84%, up to 571.000 tons

Vostochny port data filed in the Russian Register of Seaports

Freight volumes via Russia - Estonia railways up 12%, to 19.8 million tons

Rosmorrechflot registers Yeiskiy seaport

RS opens its Bulgaria office, appoints Alexander Kharlamov

Alushta ship in ablaze on Astrakhan dockyard, several injured

Daewoo Shipbuilding posts $493 million net gain for 2009

SAFINAT to build up its fleet, almost twofold by 2015

Ukraine seaports’ net gain almost doubled in 2009, up to 1.8 billion hryvnia

Cargo turnover at Vanino Port up 12.7%, to 461.000 tons this January

Kozmino port (Primorye) listed among natural monopolies

Maersk Line increases charges for imports to St.Petersburg

RZD and EVR to deal on freight traffics

FESCO icebreakers operate ensuring navigation in the Far Eastern basin

VCSP freezes its handling service fees, the last year level

Oil price up $0.52, to $70.11 in London, in New York at $69.50 (+0.7)