News 2014 March 11

Antwerp/Flanders Port Training Center and Brazil strenghten the relations

Average wholesale prices for М-100 HFO up to RUB 10,947 in RF spot market

Crimea and Sevastopol pass Declarations of Independence

EU Naval Force continues regular contacts with crews of fishing and trading vessels off the Horn Of Africa

Throughput of port HaminaKotka (Finland) down 4.6% to 2.3 mln t

TTS Group ASA appoints new CEO

Ukraine’s 8 ships and 17 cutters keep performing tasks on border protection

Harbour Master of port Kaliningrad Vasily Belyayev passed away (photo)

IHC Merwede names and launches self-propelled cutter suction dredger

Drydocks World delivers second Modular Capture Vessel

Star Bulk takes delivery of its second post - panamax bulk carrier

Throughput of Russian seaports up 3.9% to 92 mln t in Jan-Feb'14

Swissco enters offshore rig chartering business through S$ 285.0 million acquisition of Scott and English Energy

Sanfu Shipbuilding gets new order for six vessels

ABB wins $60 million telecom contracts for Statoil platforms

Throughput of port Riga (Latvia) up 19.3% to 6.526 mln t in Jan-Feb'14

CIMC Raffles secured order from Coastal Contracts BHD to build one gas compression Jack-up unit

Aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush comes to Black Sea

CMA CGM improves its SAMWAF service from South America to West Africa

Igor Sechin elected as BoD chairman of Far Eastern Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Center

Hyundai Heavy names five large containerships

All ice restrictions at Big Port St. Petersburg lifted from March 10

UASC completes its largest ever newbuilding order by exercising the final option for one 18,000 TEU vessel

Baltic Dry Index up to 1,562 points

Oil price down to $108.08 in London and down to $101.12 in New York

Wärtsilä’s new inline scrubber system design lowers cost, saves space, and eases installation