News 2010 March 16

International meeting on fuel oil trade and supplies to be held April 26-27 in St. Petersburg

RUIE, VneshEconomBank and Higher School of Economics present a study on reforming the railway industry

Manuk Vardanyan appointed Minister of Transport and Communications of Armenia

Evergreen Marine eyes 2010 profit

Cosco Shipyard secures $500-million rig contract

"Port Service. Bunkering Market" Annual 2009 Report has been on sale

COSCO Shipping to buy 18 new multi-purpose and heavylift ships for 3.9bn yuan

Singapore box throughput up 17.9% to 2.183 million TEUs in February

DP World starts work on Thames deep-sea port

Iraq to seek bids in April for $6 bln port project

Ningbo port container throughput up 19.4pc in January

Volume of freight shipments by Ukrainian companies up 12.5%, 109.6 m tons in January-February

Rosmorport invites bids for fuel supply contact for Murmansk branch

Sea Port of St. Petersburg posts a 35.5% gain in container volumes, at 885 TEUs in Jan.-Feb.

2nd phase of Ust-Luga’s "South-2" facility to be launched by this summer

Port of NY/NJ launches program to prohibit older trucks

Cargotec wins an order from Yingkou Port Group for Kalmar port equipment

Finnish port strike talks to resume

Hamburg Sud hikes eastbound Trans-Atlantic rates

Ship transits via Danube-Black Sea canal up 68%, to 126 vessels in Feb.

RMRS innovates STORM system, to manage vessels and shiping

Russia's GDP to be at least 4.5 % in the next 3 years

URALCHEM’s first ammonium nitrate shipment to the UK

TransContainer starts containerized cargo shipment from Kaliningrad

LPG and oil cargo handling facility to be built in the port of Taman

Port Vysotsky Ltd. to operate gantry cranes to handle large vessels

Throughput of Temryuk seaports to reach 60m tons by 2020

Novorossiysk Transport Conference to focus on grain exports, GLONASS system, etc.

Police investigates into SASCO’s CEO battering case

Oil price down $1.5, to $77.89 in London, in New York drops to $79.8 (-1.44)