News 2014 January 23

Gulf Coast Shipyard Group joins Port of Gulfport as newest tenant

Lomar announces addition of six container ships and further commitment to newbuildings

GTT records its first « bunkering » order: GTT technology has been chosen by STX France to equip PEGASIS

Nigeria LNG delivers landmark 3000th cargo to Turkey

Evergreen's EVER SUMMIT rescues Indian seafarers in South China Sea

Vigor to build three tugboats for Tidewater

Russian Maritime Register of Shipping and Maritime Administrations of Finland sign new agreement

DNV GL to class new methanol-fuelled tankers

Essar Ports Ltd. net profit up 22% to Rs 292.9 crore for the nine months ended December 2013

BMT introduces new assessment tools to help maximise ROI for port investors and operators

Limits of marine checkpoint determined at Sochi

Gazprom posts 9M’13 net profit of RUB 876.31 bln (+3.5%, y-o-y)

Bunker prices in Far East ports down in late 4th week (graph)

Gdansk to host Transport Week 2014 in March

Number of water transport incidents in Russia up 1.65 times to 48 cases in 2013

Arctech to build new icebreaker for Finnish Transport Agency

Lady Magda delivers azipods to Baltiysky Zavod for icebreaker Victor Chernomyrdin (photo)

Exports of Russian oil via Kozmino terminal up 31.2% to 21.3 mln t in 2013

Port of Klaipeda inaugurates the construction of LNG terminal

P&O Maritime vessel Aurora Australis helps rescue operation in Antarctica

Transportation of two gantry cranes on floating-crane pontoon performed in Ukraine (photo)

Baltic Dry Index down to 1,322 points

Oil price up to $108.27 in London and up to $96.73 in New York