News 2010 October 8

Cargo turnover of MSFP for 9 months up 7.1%, to 210,000 tons

Chinese shipyard starts building the 10th dry cargo ship for UCLH

Russia to ratify Maritime Labour Convention 2006

Freight turnover of Liepaja port in Jan-Sept is up 0.4%, to 3.16m tons

Freeport of Riga investments in the construction of deep-water berths have paid off in less than a year

Russian Transport Ministry triggers changes in legislation exempting border control of coasters

RosSelkhozNadzor bans import of the US 51 food-laden containers in St. Petersburg

Russ. Govt. to consider foreign vessels transit via the country's inland waterways in Nov., 2010

Houston Ship Channel opens to tanker traffic

Sinopec to build LNG terminal in Guangdong province

Project cargo doubles at Rotterdam in first half of 2010

German exports declines by 0.4 percent in August

Somali pirates seize Taiwanese fishing vessel

MSC launches a new weekly service to Sodertalje

Fuel tanker and container ship collide in English Channel

Belarus eyes more crude imports via Lithuania port

Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering builds offshore facility

Wartsila and Ecospec sign an agreement

Leighton Group invests $50 mn in 2 ports in India

Ivory Coast's port of San Pedro plans to invest $522 million to expand its terminal

Alexei Klyavin: New border crossing scheme at Russ. ports to become effective within a month

Freight traffic on Russia's inland waterways to rise 3-4%, to some 100m tons this year, Transport Ministry says

India's Punj Lloyd bags $121 mln pipeline order

China posts 51.93 million CGT in order backlogs

NCSP likely to change the owners before the end of 2010, a source says

India ports container volume rise 11 percent in first half of fiscal 2010-11

Crude-futures price is down to $83.43 in London, in New York to $81.67