News 2010 August 4

New Southern Sri Lanka port to anchor first vessel in November

Baltic Stevedoring Company builds container terminal, to handle 400ths TEUs a year

Exports of heavy fuel oil from Rotterdam to Asia up two million tonnes in two weeks

Kenyan firm sets up Sh9.6bn dry port in Uganda

Vostochny Port spends $15m to upgrade equipment

Essar Shipping to raise $280 mln selling bonds to expand port business

Greece implements extended dry-docking programme

Rotterdam roro throughput up 8% to 8.3 million tons in H1 2010

Azov-Don basin ports’ throughput up 36.5% in Jan-Jul, to 13,2m tons

Keppel buys 41.6% of Subic Shipyard

US Georgia Ports handle 2.6m TEUs in fiscal 2010

Marco Polo builds barges for Indonesian venture

World LPG fleet reaches 1,092-vessel mark, orderbook at 166 ships

Yuzhny Port’s throughput down 15% in July, to 1,36m tons

Brunei shipbuilder AT & S may get 24 more orders for new ships

Klaipeda Port posts a 13.2-percent rise in freight volumes

Maersk denies new ship orders

Ust-Luga Yug-2 takes delivery of a new handling equipment

Chipolbrok launches service from Europe to US

Vallarpadam dredging workto be completed by September

Crude-futures price up to $82.68 in London, in New York, to $82.55

US 100pc box scanning at foreign ports may be delayed again