News 2010 March 30

Cortez Gasoil Index up 23 rubles, to 16.682 a ton

Ventspils Terminal handles ro-ro ships laden with grain harvesters for Russia

Ship with illegal immigrants sinks off Egypt coast, five people die

BDI falls by 77 pts, to 3021 pts

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

VTB opens a 1.3b-ruble credit line for FOR Group

Moller-Maersk faces $500m loses this year

"Dry port" project to be implemented at the Baltic Customs

Russian shipbuilders’ 1.5-trillion-ruble portfolio of orders includes 2.000 ships and equipment, by 2020

Ships with nuclear power plants to call at Vitino Port

Red Sormovo posts 149.249-m ruble net profit in 2009

Lotos Shipyard launches tanker hull ordered by the Dutch company

Rosgranitsa to upgrade freight checkpoint at Rostov-on-Don Port

Arkhangelsk posts for 2009 a 21.953-b ruble net loss, against profit a year earlier

EU NAVFOR supports Seychelles hostage rescue – Pirates apprehended

Maktren-Nafta Terminal’s LPG volumes up 56%, 30.000 tons in Q1, 2010

EU NAVFOR Dutch warship Tromp disrupts more Pirate Action Groups

Shanghai International Port (Group) sees profit rise on recovering trade

Port Klang extends free storage deadline

Port of Melbourne container throughput up 24.6 percent in February

South China shippers slam emergency bunker surcharges

Evergreen, Wan Hai Lines and Simatech Shipping to operate East Africa Service

EBRD opens a $50-m credit line for Kaztemirtrans for 10-year term

Daewoo Shipbuilding gets $210m VLCC order from Almi Tankers

Maersk aims for $500 mln in cost cuts in 2010

Grand Alliance to add Vietnam call to US west coast service

Clarkson: Global container shipments to grow 5.5pc this year

Safmarine restores Mediterranean - West Central Asia ME 3 service

Lithuania to begin LNG terminal construction this year

Export oil duties rate rises to $268.9/ton from April 1st

Primorsk Resources gains 33% in the bunker market of Primorsk port

5.8-magnitude quake in northern Japan

Oil price up $1.88, to $81.17 in London, in New York to $82 (+2.17)