News 2014 March 5

Rio Tinto announces board changes

Two companies to participate in tender for designing and building Murmansk Transportation Hub

Corvette Stoiky finalizes shipbuilder's trials in the Baltic Sea

Throughput of Rosterminalugol hits 2 mln t from year beginning

Throughput of Odessa Commercial Sea Port (Ukraine) up 7.4% to 4.07 mln t in Jan-Feb'14

OW Bunker reports results for 2013

Pilotage and berthing at Ukraine's Port of Odessa delayed

Hyundai Heavy showcases new models at ConExpo 2014

Wärtsilä’s AQUARIUS UV Ballast Water Management System certified for hazardous onboard areas

Dan-Bunkering appoints new Bunker Trader in Dubai

Ulstein deliveres the offshore construction vessel ‘Polar Onyx’ to GC Rieber Shipping

LCT, MSC Geneva, Zeta System to establish new feeder service UK East Coast – Rotterdam

WienCont first Austrian terminal to join InlandLinks

Konecranes delivers 23 heavy fork lift trucks to support expansion of Ethiopian Shipping and Logistics Services Enterprise

Throughput of Neva-Metal up 30% to 580,000 t in Jan-Feb'14

Throughput of port Arkhangelsk down 13.4% to 570,400 t in Jan-Feb'14

Hetman Sahaydachny frigate is in Ukraine

Nuclear rocket cruiser Pyotr Veliky ensured safe transportation of Syrian chemical weapons (photo)

EMAS awarded projects in Asia Pacific and West Africa worth more than US$125 million

Ezion enters into a contract to provide a jack-up rig to support a National Oil Company

CNIIMF boosts volume of works to RUB 583 mln in 2013

DOF Subsea charters a Jones Act vessel and has been awarded several contracts in North America

Discount on harbor dues in Big Port and Passenger Port of Saint-Petersburg

Cruise navigation in Saint-Petersburg starts on March 20

Baltic Dry Index up to 1,325 points

RPK-Vysotsk-LUKOIL-II accepted 914,000 t of export oil products in Feb'14

Bunker prices in Far East ports surged in early 10th week (graph)

George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group to support security operations in Mediterranean

Antwerp sets new shortsea record

Oil price down to $109.3 in London and down to $103.33 in New York