News 2013 December 17

MEB introduces sea ferries concepts for Black Sea services (graph)

St. Petersburg bunker market start the week soft (graph)

GAC sharpens focus on Brazil’s billion dollar chemical industry

DNV GL taps Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen new Maritime president

MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company announces GRI on cargo from the Far East to West Africa and Angola

ESPO puts forward compromise proposal in view of the trilogue on Clean Fuel Strategy

MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company announces GRI on cargo from the Far East to SAEC

Shipyard De Hoop awarded contract for 10 PSVs by ADNOC

Alfa Laval wins order for the new waste fuel recovery system Alfa Laval PureDry

Zvezdochka Shipyard delivers freezer trawler "Kroida-2" (photo)

MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company announces CGS for the port of Douala, CM

Jebel Ali port gets four of the world’s largest quay cranes

Star Bulk takes delivery of its first Ultramax bulk carrier

Wärtsilä AQUARIUS®EC Ballast Water Management System granted Type Approval

Far Eastern ports bunker prices slump on oversupply (graph)

MPSV07 salvage vessel "Spasatel Zaborschikov" successfully passes acceptance trials (photo release)

Sovcomflot gets $316M ten-year credit facility for LNG carriers project

Boskalis' Mattijs Siebinga to take part in the Forum of dredging companies, Moscow

Keppel secures S$150 million in contracts

Blue Ship vessels contracted for Statoil

Port of Long Beach cargo throughput up to 569,599 TEUs in November 2013

Man Diesel & Turbo's ME-GI engines to power two LNG carriers of Norwegian company

Rotterdam shipping company Nirint to use the Rhenus Deep Sea Terminal on the Maasvlakte instead of Moerdijk

Baltic Dry Index lost 38pts to 2,292 points

Brent Crude prices rise to $110,47 in London, in New York - to $97,48