News 2013 February 20

Konecranes and Linde Material Handling sign agreement in container handling lift truck business

Tank container for transportation of liquefied helium produced in Russia

Technip awarded a five-year contract by BP Angola for engineering and modification services

Lemminkäinen consortium wins contract for container terminal in Lithuania

BW Offshore posts Q4 2012 results

Tokyo MoU to introduce a New Inspection Regime

DeepOcean awarded contract with Statoil

STX Offshore & Shipbuilding lays down new gas carrier for Sovcomflot (photo)

Pacific Drilling announces signing of $1bln senior secured credit facility

Bahri announces signing financing term sheet

Technip awarded subsea contract for the Laila and D12 fields in Malaysia

Panama Canal administrator presents expansion program at Lamar University

Daily icebreaking service covers 21 vessels in the Gulf of Finland

Aleksandr Bengert takes post of Deputy Director of Rosmorport’s Murmansk branch (photo)

RF Arctic Zone Development Strategy approved in Russia

Ecologists are invited to discuss project on port and LNG plant construction in Primorsk Territory

Railways towards Ukrainian ports of Iljichevsk, Odessa and Yuzhny to boost capacity

Transocean Ltd. announces world water-depth drilling record in 10,385 feet of water off India

Rosmorport icebreakers assist 18 vessels along Volga-Caspian Seaway Canal

50 mln tons of ESPO oil shipped from Kozmino port (photo)

Rosmorport icebreakers assist vessels in Azov Sea

Throughput of Estonian ports down 6% to 4.02 mln tons in Jan’13

Diana Containerships posts Q4 2012 results

Throughput of Vyborg port up 29% to 93,000 tons in Jan’13

Baltic Dry Index down to 738 points

Bunker fuel price in port St. Petersburg up in early 8th week

NCSP expects its throughput to gain 3-6% to 163.9-168.9 mln tons in 2013