News 2010 March 2

Cargo turnover at NUTEP up 35%, to 22.226 TEUs in January-February

Volumes rise 18% at the ports of Azov-Don basin in January-February, to 1.15m tons

NOL container volumes up 63% in January

Abu Dhabi to take a majority stake in Greece's largest shipyard

Hapag-Lloyd to raise India rates

Kuehne & Nagel 2009 profit drops 20 percent

Maersk CEO: carriers, shippers need stability

Horizon Lines renews US terminal agreements

Ilichivsk reports a 15.4% throughput growth, 3m tons in January-February

Brazil shipbuilding company OSX to raise up to $5.6 bln in share sale

Danish forces sank pirate ‘mother ship’

MSC to order cruise vessel from France

Finnish roro-vessel Global Carrier to be out of service for several weeks

BOT Ltd post 1.18m tons, a 52.3% spike in volumes, in January-February

Port Olya to launch a grain terminal of a 500.000-ton-annual capacity by the end of 2010

Conference on marine and river transport safety to be held in St. Petersburg on March 16-17, 2010

Russian railroads show a 11% volume rise, 176m tons in January-February

Port of Posiet to take a 150m-ruble loan, to fund its projects

Ukraine gains 12.4% in grain export this January, at 1.67 million tons

Griffin-4 ship sinks, oil spill reported near Obukhovsky dockyard

Severstal cuts its logistics costs at 5m rubles in Q4, 2009

Klaipedos Nafta shows a 13.5% drop, 1.2 m tons of volumes in January-February

Fed. Gov. establishes Kholmsk seaport’s boundaries

Ukrrechflot reports a $2.4m net loss for 2009, a 8.1% drop

Annual Report for 2009 "Port service. Bunker market" has been on sale

CPC oil terminal’s exports slightly down in January-February, at 5.7m tons

Oil price down $0.7 to $76.89 in London, in New York to $78.7 (-0.96)