News 2013 October 16

Venezuela to free seized oil survey ship

Kalmar straddle carriers boost productivity at Port of Tacoma, Washington

Blue Ship vessels enter into long-term contracts in the North Sea

Throughput of Arkhangelsk Sea Commercial Port down 12.6% to 1.1 mln t Jan-Sep’13

Transocean secures five-year contract for DP2 UDW drillship from Chevron

Taizhou Sanfu inks USD 328 mil shipbuilding deal

BMT secures six year deal with Port of Brisbane

Cargo traffic of North-Western Shipping Company up 35% to 4.9 mln t Jan-Sep’13

Wärtsilä Exhaust Gas Cleaning Systems selected for three more Color Line ships

NOVATEK completes construction of second stage of Ust-Luga complex

USC to increase offshore cargo handling at port Kavkaz by 23% in 2013

IUMI supports Third Annual International Conference “Marine Insurance in Russia 2013”

Throughput of port Gdansk (Poland) up 22% to 22.396 mln t Jan-Sep’13

Final version of USC Strategy to be considered by Marine Board presidium on Oct’21 (photo)

Boskalis completes sale of SMIT Gladstone towage operation to Smit Lamnalco

Throughput of Universal Reloading Complex (Leningrad region) up 17% to 2.6 mln t Jan-Sep’13

Concrete works completed at ramp and decking of Bronka’s ferry berth No 2 (photo)

Tommy Mølgaard appointed as Chief Financial Officer for Damco

European Commission gathers all transport stakeholders in Helsinki and Tallinn for the 2013 TEN-T days

Throughput of Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port down 12.3% to 106.5 mln t Jan-Sep’13

Ukraine and RF intend to activate building a bridge over the Kerch Straight

Titanic II model test held in Germany

Civil defense traning took place in Sea port Saint-Petersburg

Baltic Dry Index up to 1,963 points

Oil price down to $109.96 in London and down to $101.21 in New York