News 2013 August 23

Seaspan enters into long-term time charter agreements with Yang Ming for five fuel efficient SAVER Design 14000 TEU class vessels

Allocations of Taganrog Commercial Seaport for port infrastructure development hit RUB 30 mln in HI’13

Russian Maritime Register of Shipping will exhibit at international Shipping, Shipbuilding and Offshore Energy exhibition NEVA-2013

COSL renewed its joint venture contract with Fugro for another 10 years

MAN Diesel & Turbo wins the order from Meyer Werft for new cruise vessels for Norwegian Cruise Line

Odfjell expects further progress in the chemical tanker market

DFDS invests £34 million in new environmental technology in 2014

Multi-purpose boat Nautilus-800 delivered to Tuapse seaport

Gazprom Neft Shelf published summary plan on prevention of spill incidents and oil spill response

Damen Shipyards gets order for fourth Damen Stan Patrol from Mexican Navy

Throughput of Neva-Metal exceeds 1.6 mln t in Jan-July’13

TL Offshore ends ‘Enterprise 3′ charter (Malaysia)

Review of Black Sea container market in the first half of 2013

Shipyard Pella competes sea trail part of delivery acceptance tests of tugboat RB-405

Thoresen Shipping Singapore takes delivery of M.V. Thor Breeze from Vinashin

Golden Ocean posts Q2 results

TransContainer posts HI’13 net profit of RUB 2.355 bln (-12.4%)

Port of Houston Authority operating revenue up to $21 million in July

Backlog of orders at Amursky shipyard to grow with Navy, Rosneft and Gazprom orders - Viktor Ishaev

MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company announces GRI on cargo from North Europe to Canada

Hapag-Lloyd reinstates terminal call for BPX Service at Santos Brazil Terminal

Bunker prices in port St. Petersburg changed in late 34th week (graph)

Shipyard Pella competes sea trail part of delivery acceptance tests of tugboat RB-404

Baltic Dry Index up to 1,158 points

Oil price down to $109.9 in London and down to $105.03 in New York