News 2014 February 7

Wärtsilä supports Sailing Team Finland

Clarksons Director appointed Chairman of Maritime UK

Port of Odessa (Ukraine) joins Ecoports

EXMAR LPG gets Time-Charter requirement for 2 environment-friendly 38,000 m³ (Midsize) LPG newbuildings from Statoil ASA

Konecranes signed EUR 100 million revolving credit facility

COSCON announces General Rate Increase for USA trade

Deltamarin designs FPSO unit for Bumi Armada

First vessel to be handled at Karantinny Mole of port Odessa in April-May’14, Ukraine’s Ministry of Infrastructure says

COSCO Container Lines announces General Rate Increase for Far East to South America & Mexico trade

Otto Marine secures long term charter contract for its 24,000 bhp AHTS vessel worth US$40 million

RAN’s biggest ever ship arrives in Melbourne

Throughput of Tallinna Sadam (Estonia) up 1% to 2.79 mln t in Jan'14

DNV GL launches Extraordinary Innovation project

Gazpromneft Marine Bunker to supply bunker for Olympic vessels (photo)

Pivotal LNG and WesPac Midstream LLC selected to serve TOTE's LNG vessels in Florida

EUROGATE container volumes up by 7 per to 14 million TEUs in 2013

Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation announces employment for three VLCCs

Azov-Black Sea Basin Branch of FSUE Rosmorport acquires new vessel

Baltic Dry Index up to 1,092 points

MABUX: Bunker market may continue downward trend

Corvette Stoiky commences second part of sea trials (photo)

Icebreaker Kapitan Demidov performs individual escort of Chinese bulk carrier Sheng Qiang (photo)

Sovcomflot is eager to operate new cruise harbour in Sochi (photo)

Oil price up to $107.19 in London and up to $97.84 in New York