News 2013 April 12

EMAS bags four new contracts totaling nearly US$120 million

Agencies demonstrate chemical spill preparedness during Singapore Maritime Week 2013

Van Oord’s newest addition to its fleet – the self-propelled cutter suction dredger Artemis will be moored in Rotterdam until 14 April 2013

BMT’s ASSERT secures further work with the Ministry of Defence

Throughput of Ventspils port (Latvia) up 7% to 9.1 mln t in QI'13

MOL again earns listing on ESG/RI index

ASC proposes to apply PPP principles for ship utilization and fleet renovation

Hapag-Lloyd stops Asia Black Sea Express

"SINGA Port" gets grand prize at Singapore Maritime Week

Deputy Director of RF FSS Vladimir Kulishov takes the post of Border Service Head

Hapag-Lloyd stops Far East Trade – Europe - Asia Loop 7

Wärtsilä 34DF is the first dual-fuel engine family to receive United States EPA certificate

Ports of Stockholm Group Board of Directors approves implementation decision to expand the Port of Kapellskär

Evergreen Line and CMA CGM start new South Red Sea Service

50 awards presented at the Singapore International Maritime Awards 2013

Sovcomflot’s IAS net profit down 38.2% to $33.2

Kamchatka authorities want Petropavlovsk Shipyard to join United Shipbuilding Corporation

Port of Los Angeles expands Marina Engine Exchange Program

Sakhalin authorities determined to promote construction of second LNG plant

Freeport of Riga and local NGOs search for solutions to mitigate air pollution

LNG bunkering hub to appear at Gulf of Bothnia (Finland) by 2016

LNG terminal to be built in Turku (Finland) by 2015

Port of Keelung cargo throughput up 31.95% to 10,89mln tonnes in March, 2013

DNV to develop regulations for use of methanol as ship fuel by summer 2013

Daily icebreaking service covered 20 vessels in the Gulf of Finland

Intra-European container traffic to rise 7.8% to 9.7 million TEU by 2015 - Dynamar

75 vessels of Norwegian ship owners run on LNG fuel

Throughput of Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port Group down 10% to 37 mln t in QI'13

Ports of Stockholm container volumes up 79 percent in Jan-March 2013

Maersk Line's Asia-Europe (AE10 Service) to call Busan, South Korea

Sovcomflot’s Aleksey Chirikov to be registered with RMRS under Russian flag (photo)

Shell puts two inland shipping tankers on service between Rotterdam and Basel

Keppel AmFELS delivers third jackup rig to Perforadora Central

Baltic Dry Index up to 865 points