News 2013 July 2

Turkish trade delegation visits port of Antwerp

MOL continues salvage of fore part and cargo of MOL Comfort

Thieu-vi Phung relocates to Dan-Bunkering Singapore

TCV’s fourth Super Post Panamax crane arrives at the Port of Valencia

National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia announces the merger of fleet & operations of Vela with Bahri

Dudinka seaport undergoes power facilities modernization

New sale and leaseback transactions with Ship Finance totalling US$600 million for the West Linus

Port of Zeebrugge gets four new windmills

Chernomorsky Shipbuilding Yard commenced repairing flagship of Ukrainian Navy

Damen launches new PSV series

Customs of port Vyborg clears 8 vessels through newly introduced pre-declaration procedure

General Dynamics awarded $209 million for future Virginia-class submarines

Bunker prices in Far East ports up in early 27th week (graph)

L&T Construction wins orders valued ` 3057 Crs

Joyce Bliek is appointed Director for Breakbulk at the Port of Rotterdam Authority

Throughput of Rosterminalugol OJSC reached 7 mln t from beginning of 2013

Shipyards of Khabarovsk territory may commence serial production of nanocomposite minesweepers

Singapore bunker prices slide to new low

The fifth semi-submersible drilling rig for North Sea began construction in CIMC Raffles

Freeport of Riga to complete reconstruction of Kipsala island beaching in 2014

BMT confirmed as design contractor for Norwegian Defence Logistics Organisation’s logistics and support vessel

IMO Sub-Committee restructuring agreed by MSC

Export of Russian oil via Kozmino terminal up 37.6% to 10.6 mln t in HI’13

Sembcorp Marine’s PPL Shipyard gets two more jack-up rig orders from Oro Negro

MOL appoints Tim Harrington to lead MOL (Canada) Inc.

Aker Solutions wins its largest UK subsea contract

Oil spill following collision between Oriental Pioneer and the Atlantic Hero off Singapore

Konecranes wins follow-up order from Brazilian shipyard Estaleiro Enseada do Paraguaçu

Baltic Dry Index up to 1,179 points

Oil price up to $103 in London and up to $97.99 in New York

Hapag-Lloyd informs about the port rotation and service schedule on New Zealand Loop A-1 (NZA1) & New Zealand Loop A-2 (NZA2)