News 2013 October 15

Triple-E vessel Mary Maersk maiden voyage call to Qingdao Qianwan United Container Terminal

Throughput of Sea Port of Saint-Petersburg down 14% to 5.8 mln t Jan-Sep’13

M/V "VENEZIA" banned

North-Western Shipping Company gets 33.39% of Okskaya Sudoverf

Maiden call of M/V Thalassa Hellas received by CICT

DNV GL recommends ways to make LNG bunkering safe and efficient

ZNT Yard launches second search-and-rescue boat of project 23040 (photo)

Rolls-Royce to supply design & integrated systems package to COSCO

N-icebreaker 50 Years of Victory sets off form Murmansk to N. Pole (photo)

Boskalis completes sale of SMIT Gladstone towage operation to Smit Lamnalco

European Union granted subsidy for LNG projects in the port of Rotterdam

Construction of Liverpool2 terminal’s huge quay wall kicks off

Kawasaki announces publication of the integrated Kawasaki Report

Tanker Stena Polaris ran into storm in Bering Sea (photo)

Cargotec reduces its full-year 2013 guidance

Results first month Maritime Labour Convention: 7 ships detained for MLC-related deficiencies

Wärtsilä dual-fuel engines and propulsion systems chosen for two Chinese LNG carrier vessels

TransContainer’s transportation of rail containers down 2.5% to 1.07 mln TEUs Jan-Sep’13

Bureau Veritas to class largest container ships built in China

Total throughput of Tamanneftegas terminals hit 4.73 mln t Jan-Sep’13

US Navy postpones USS Zumwalt christening ceremony

Hapag-Lloyd changes Pacific Atlantic Express (PAX) Service

22.5 mln t of Azerbaijani oil transported via BTC in Jan-Sep’13

Baltic Dry Index down to 1,961 points

Throughput of port Sillamäe (Estonia) up 4.5% to 4.96 mln t Jan-Sep’13

Ilya Klebanov elected as Chairman of Sovcomflot BoD

Oil price down to $111.04 in London and up to $102.41 in New York