News 2013 June 5

OOCL accredited again for environmental data integrity

Nordic American Tankers renewes contract with a subsidiary of ExxonMobil Corporation

RINA Services and Russian Register join forces on yachts and ice class

Fjord Line's passenger ferry MS Stavangerfjord to run on pure LNG engines

Damen delivers modular Cutter Suction Dredger to Verboon Maasland

ULSTEIN delivers two pile gripper frames (PGF) to Offshore Wind Force JV

Throughput of Helsinki port down 5% to 4 mln t Jan-May’13

Contargo affiliates terminals with InlandLinks

Throughput of Murmansk Commercial Seaport up 9.7% to 6.9 mln t Jan-May’13

Amels sells the second AMELS 199

Shipyard Zaliv (Ukraine) undocks Polar Onyx, off-shore vessel built for Ulstein Hull (Norway)

Bergen Tankers selects Rolls-Royce engines for LNG conversion project

Klaipėda Port and in Būtingės terminal throughput up 4,7 % to 3,03 mln. tn in May of 2013

Downtime reduces from 23 days to 14 days for the Bourbon Liberty 200’s first planned maintenance periods

Wärtsilä launches a new more powerful version of its Wärtsilä 34DF engine

COSCO Container Lines announces Bunker Adjustment Factor for USA & Canada trade

Loan of European Investment Bank for Lithuania’s gas terminal

Throughput of Klaipeda port and Butinge terminal (Lithuania) up 9.1% to 18.3 mln t Jan-May’13

Mediterranean Shipping Company announces BAF on cargo from the Far East to West Africa

Throughput of Ventspils port (Latvia) down 3.3% to 14.3 mln t Jan-May’13

MSC Belgium makes port of Antwerp more secure

Singapore IFO380 bunkers stay below $600 pmt

Russia will upgrade its coastal and port infrastructure in the North – Dmitry Medvedev

Statoil delays Johan Castberg project in the Norwegian Barents Sea

Throughput of Odessa Commercial Sea Port (Ukraine) down 21.6% to 8.9 mln t Jan-May’13

US to start 'fly-over' monitoring for ECA compliance

Farstad Shipping announces vessel delivery, sale and leaseback

Alexandra Land and Bely Island cleaned within the framework of eco-programme in the Arctic – Dmitry Medvedev

L&T Group Company wins Saudi Aramco contract

Drewry: Maersk Line most reliable carrier

ECT takes a 50% stake in ShoreTension Holding B.V.

Nordic Cold Storage moves a cold 20 million pounds of cargo through the Georgia Ports Authority’s Garden City Terminal

Krylov State Research Center has developed conceptual design of cable-laying vessel

85,385 tonnes of Azeri crude exported via port Novorossiysk in May’13

Navy awards General Dynamics Bath Iron Works $2.8 bln contract for four DDG 51 destroyers

Steering group for barge degassing to meet in Antwerp on 7 June

Technip awarded substantial subsea contract for the Julia project in the Gulf of Mexico

"K" Line enters long-term time charter with construction of 2 LNG carriers

Baltic Dry Index down to 805 points

Oil price up to $103.24 in London and down to $93.31 in New York