News 2010 April 5

Cortez Gasoil Index up by 67 rubles, to 16.753 a ton

Chinese bulker owner faces a $920.000 fine

POT handles two 100-dwt tankers

Trade volumes via ports of Azov-Don Basin up 23%, to 2.189m tons, Q1 2010

Throughput of Ust-Luga port rises by 33%, to 2.4m tons in Q1, 2010

Admiralteysky Verfy sees a threefold spike in sales revenue, up to $856m this year

Yaroslavsky Shipyard to deliver three ships for RosMorRechFlot this fall

A bomb disarmed at a railroad station in the Murmansk region

Arkhangelsk Port posts a 18% volumes drop for Q1, 2010, to 586.200 tons

South Korea shipbuilding contracts rise fivefold in Q1, 2010

Two merchant ships are attacked by pirates, successfully evaded

FCC’s office opens in Blagoveshchensk

Pirates attack stopped by EUNAVFOR’s HNLMS TROMP

Port Vanino’s throughput up 14.3% to 1.47m tons, Q1, 2010

Sovcomflot, PDV Marina deal, to transport Venezuela oil

St. Petersburg hosts FRESH next week, program updated

Chinese bulk coal carrier stranded near the Great Barrier, oil spill reported

South Korea tanker hijacked by Somali pirates

Oil price up $0.35, to $84.77 in London, in New York to $85.75 (+0.88)