News 2014 March 24

Wallenius nominated to Environmental Performance Award

Hyundai Heavy Industries showcases at Gastech 2014

Metso gets an order from STX France to supply the world’s largest cruise vessel Oasis 3

Kongsberg Maritime delivers simulator upgrades and a unique new rig training model for Simsea

Rolls-Royce to supply design and integrated systems package to Cosco

Throughput of port Gdansk (Poland) down 6% to 5.002 mln t in Jan-Feb'14

Hyundai Heavy Industries holds 40th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders

Concordia Maritime and Neste Oil sell their jointly owned tankers, Stena Poseidon and Palva

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

Wärtsilä rolls out new dual-fuel engine 46DF

Houston Ship Channel can be open tomorrow

Sanfu Shipbuilding holds steel-cutting ceremony for 2400TEU

Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence: armed people on speed boats attempt to board Cherkassy minesweeper

Joint response underway for ship, barge collision in Houston Ship Channel

Greenpeace blocks ExxonMobil rig at Norwegian port of Olen (photo)

CMA CGM informs its customers of the changes on its MEX1 service

Fassmer ordered WhisperPower generator systems for rescue vessels

Average wholesale prices for М-100 HFO up to RUB 11,482 in RF spot market

Terminal for transshipment of mineral fertilizers to be launched at port Ust-Luga in 2014

ASOP includes TRANSTEC 2014 into ASOP 2014 Annual program

CMA CGM launches new Equatorial Guinea Express service

Ban on shipyards at Lake Baikal can be lifted

CMA CGM announces GRI from India, Pakistan & Sri Lanka to North Europe, Scandinavia, Mediterranean Sea, Baltic, Black Sea, North Africa, Central America and Caribbean, South America

Moscow shipyard delivers blocks of project 3052 buoy tender to Irkutsk

CMA CGM announces General Rate Increase from all Asian ports to Jeddah, Ain Sukhna, Aqaba, Djibouti, Port Sudan, Aden, Hodeidah

MEYER WERFT holds steel-cutting for first serial cruise ship ordered by Norwegian Cruise Line

Maersk Drilling names the world’s largest jack-up rig

United Shipbuilding Corporation enters into agreement with bank “Russia”

DNV GL opens new Vietnam office to support growth plans

Baltic Dry Index down to 1,599 points