News 2010 July 1

Six-month throughput of Ilyichevsk down 6.2%, to 7,76m tons

Malta cruise passenger arrivals up 71% in May

Evergreen Marine raises shipping rates on European routes

NYK expects return to profit after ?10.95m loss

NYK, MOL, K Line to start a new service between Asia, Hawaii, Mexico, and South America

South Korea rejects North’s call for joint ship-sinking probe

Northrop Grumman wins $175 mln Navy contract for new ship

Singapore MPA works on adopting stricter ISO bunker standard

Belgian logistics group SEA establishes a new company Rotterdam Fruit Wharf

TransStroy starts building a LPG terminal at Ust-Luga

Sulphur limit within ECA cuts to 1.0 per cent

"K" Line launches new direct service from Far East to West Africa

LA-LB Port workers seek 21 percent pay increase

Bharati Shipyard declared 30% dividend

Newcastle coal port throughput up 3.6% to 2.11 million metric tonnes last week

NUTEP boosts six-month cargo volume by 38.2%, to 65,529 TEUs

Russian Ministry of Development approves Murmansk Transport Hub boundaries

Turkey is determined to cut tanker traffic via Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits

Gazprom, Belarus to upgrade a transit rate agreement

Gazprom to boost gas reserves on Sakhalin-3 deposit

St. Petersburg Property Fund to appeal on the ‘Moby Dick’ case

Vladimir Yakunin: EBRD and JPMorgan eye a stake in FCC

Diesel-futures prices gain 4.75% in June to 16.960 rubles /ton on the Saint Petersburg Stock Exchange

Ukrainian Transport Ministry names harbormaster of Yuzhny Port

FTS cancels price control of stevedores at port of St. Petersburg

Sri Lankan port expands space for freight

Throughput growth at China's ports slows 2.1% in May

India, Poland sign shipping agreement

Tuticorin port handles a record volume on June 26

Cargo growth in Singapore in 2011 to be at a more moderate rate of 4.4%

India needs ports for bigger vessels: Shipping Secretary

Maersk to invest in Chongqing's Cuntan Bonded Port Area phase 3

Yang Ming to start a second Taiwan-North China service

AADA to levy US$400/TEU, US$800/FEU China-Australia bunker charge

Sinopacific Shipbuilding gets US$1-bln order

Pipavav Shipyard seeks new investor

Spanish Group to build Indian container terminal

CMA CGM upgrades its services between North Europe, South Atlantic, Mexico and the US Gulf

CMA CGM may get $1 billion from Qatari sovereign fund

World Customs Organization elects two directors

Customs Union becomes a reality for Russia and Kazakhstan since July 1st, Belorussia hesitates.

LA-LB port office clerks authorize strike

Crude-futures prices down to $75.01 in London, in New York, to $75.63