News 2010 April 19

Hamburg Sud builds up its container fleet, gets 2.000 new reefer units

Cortez Gasoil Index down RUB72, to 17.066 rubles a ton

Rosmorport’s arm invites bids for VTMIS contract at Port Vysotsky

Moody revokes its Ba1 rating of Sochi

Russian crude exports in Q1 up 0.1%, 39.5m tons

Singapore Port posts a 9.5% rise, 124m tons in Q1,10

Strong earthquakes trouble Latin America, USA, and elsewhere

ACSP’s Q1,10 throughput up 17%, to 344.100mt

ICTSI offers to operate Peruvian port

China Q1 cargo throughput up 20%

Cargotec bags €15m order from Korean yards

Yangzijiang Shipbuilding buys into PPL Shipyard

VLCC rates seen to rise in second half of 2010

Iran, Brazil to open joint shipping line

Chinese ore boycott to hit nation's ports

Indian government asks all 12 major ports to install radioactive detectors

Klaipeda port may become a leading Baltic port this year, Minister of Transport of Lithuania

Aqaba Container Terminal, Genoa Port Authority sign MoU

Wan Hai joins India-Far East service

Unifeeder to raise BAF to EUR85 a TEU on all traffics from May 1st

APM Terminals look for opportunities

Rotterdam posts strong gain

Baltic Dry Index up 8pts to 3009 pts

M-100 HFO spot prices up, at 8.829 rubles a ton

Malta joins EU NAVFOR to combat pirates raids

Oil spill on the River Neva in St. Petersburg

EU NAVFOR Spanish warship destroys pirate mother ship

Gothenburg upholds Govt's fees cut proposal for onshore power supply of vessels

Kuehne + Nagel’s net income up 2.34%, to $123.7m in Q1,10

Russia’s fishery complex’s turnover at RUB101.5b, up 20% in 2009

Exports of fish, seafood from Russian Primorye, up 1.9 times to $185.6m in Q1,10

Vladimir Putin urges Fishery Agency to install GLONASS system

Oil price down $1.60, to $85.99 in London, in New York to $83.24 (-2.27)