News 2013 October 22

Rickmers Maritime reports third quarter results

Shell announces successful bid for giant field in deep water Brazil

J. Lauritzen to sell ten product tankers to Hafnia Tankers

CMA CGM and SAP enter into a strategic partnership

Ballast water treatment system test organizations launch GloBal TestNet group

Drydocks World signs Strategic Alliance Agreement with NSC Holding

Bureau Veritas classes Brazil’s largest FPU

Klaipėda Port and Būtingės terminal throughput up +0,3 pct to 32 mln. tn in January-September of 2013

Ukrainian Government attracts investments in port sector on public-private partnership

Port Bronka can account for one third of throughput in Big Port St. Petersburg, A. Shukletsov says

Port of los Angeles Small Business Enterprise Program reports continued strong participation

Construction of LNG terminal is under consideration at port Vyborg (Leningrad region)

Yamal LNG and CNPC sign Heads of Agreement for LNG supplies

NYK Group returns training boat to home in Japan

Oil product exports via RPK-Vysotsk-LUKOIL-II up 7.6% to 7.98 mln t Jan-Sep’13

Ferry operator Paradise Cruise & Ferry acquires second ship for Black Sea

COSCO Container Lines announces General Rate Increase for Far East to South Africa trade

Bunker prices in Far East ports down in early 43rd week (graph)

Cruise ships’ calls at port Sochi almost doubled in navigation of 2013 (photo)

DeepOcean charters new build SURF installation vessel

Crew of Crowley’s tug Siku rescues passengers from stricken skiff adrift in the Bering Sea

Samskip introduces Copenhagen rail service

Hapag-Lloyd to merge the New York Express and South China Express service

Yury Maltsev takes post of Acting Head of Russian Border Services Agency

Head of Russian Border Services Agency Dmitry Bezdelov relieved of his post

Nikolai Zakhryapin appointed as Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation

Baltic Dry Index down to 1,878 points

Oil price down to $109.64 in London and down to $99.22 in New York