News 2010 April 6

Freight flows via Ilyichevsk Port up 1.8%, 4.38m tons in Q1, 2010

Cortez Gasoil Index up by 40 rubles, to 16.793 a ton

Volga-Don Ship Canal opens for navigation

Turnover of MSFP down by 7.7% in March 2010 - up to 36 thousand tons

Mr. Shokhin greets participants of TRANSTECH-2010,The Future of Russian Ports

A pro-shipbuilding industry bill would encourage Russian shipbuilders competitiveness, Nevsky Shipyard

Nevsky Shipyard launches a 850-DWT fueler

Nevsky Shiyard builds a rescue vessel for RosMorRechFlot

Kalachevsky Port’s accounts and assets arrested

VCT’s throughput up 47% to 61.779 TEUs in Q1, 2010

Freight volumes by Kaliningrad CSP drop 1.2% in Q1, to 747.200 tons

St. Petersburg Customs’ two top officials sacked

Ust-Luga Terminal’s coal exports up 1.3%, 1.5 million tons in Q1, 2010

Volga-Balt, Neva River to be navigable since April 30th

FE Railroad’s volumes in Q1, 2010 up 8.8%, 9.7 million tons

EU NAVFOR French warship and Maritime Patrol aircraft disrupt a pirates attack

Azerbaijani oil exports via Baku-Novorossiysk pipeline doubled in Q1, 2010 to 448.780 tons

Rosmorrechflot supports TRANSTECH-2010 Exhibition, The Future of Russian Ports Conference

EU NAVFOR marines rescue a German-flagged ship

Dmitry Medvedev signs a law on applying VAT zero rate in international rail transportation

Pirates hijack a South Korean oil tanker off the Somali coast

Thoresen buys 39% stake in Philippines tanker company

Somali pirates release two Indian boats

Grand Alliance to relaunch suspended CCX transpacific service

Hanjin Shipping launches new e-booking system

India’s Port of Jawaharlal Nehru container throughput up 2.8 percent in 2009

GEFCO expands in Brazil, Morocco

Qatar investment fund may invest $1 billion in CMA CGM

Dutch bulker slams into a pier at Alexandria port

Oil price up $1.87, to $85.88 in London, in New York to $86.62 (+1.75)