News 2011 March 9

NOL’s shipping volumes up 5% to 321,600 FEUs

FAS blames Transneft’s affiliates over price collusion

Beluga Shipping handles successfully huge cargo

Maersk, Dubai to invest $4.6 billion in Qingdao Port expansion

Hutchison Port Holdings IPO oversubscribed

Suez Canal office staff strikes, but shipping unaffected

Throughput of Finland ports in January is up 10.2% to 7,2m tons

Indian ports throughput up 1.2 percent in April - February

Dockers block ferries in Marseille

Global ship lease lost $4 mln in 2010

US March retail container traffic up 11 pct in March

Wallenius launches next generation RoRo vessels

OOCL debuts OOCL Lite

Heavy ice in St. Petersburg halts operations of the Princess Mary

Kotka port’s cargo volume up 16% to 1,495m tons

Evergreen to launch Bohai Sea-Indonesian service

Pirate skiff nears twice-attacked Maersk Alabama

Liepaja port’s throughput grows 8.5% to 759,600 tons

Maersk Line cuts sulfur emissions in New Zealand

Norden A/S posts a 12.7-percent income growth, to $244,8m

Bollore confirms $640 mln Lome port expansion plan

Crude futures price is down to $113,06 in London, in New York - to $105,02

Congestion of 109 ships in the Gulf of Finland eastern part