News 2014 April 8

Throughput of port Riga (Latvia) up 21.7% to 9.92 mln t in QI'14

IHC Merwede standardizes on Siemens’ PLM for Global Shipbuilding Optimization

Mitsubishi Corporation enters container terminal business in Valencia, Spain

Bunker prices in port Novorossiysk up in early 15th week (graph)

Nuclear icebreaker Yamal to set off for expedition on April 8

Saltchuk announces acquisition of Tropical Shipping

Throughput of DELOPORTS terminals up 31% to 1.46 mln t in QI'14

France hands over the Force Command of the EU’s counter piracy mission to Germany

Hapag-Lloyd informs about a void sailing on its Far East Trade – Europe – Asia Loop M Service

Yamal LNG and Fluxys sign cooperation agreement on LNG transshipment

IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee completes 66th session

2013 dividends of RUB 7.20 per share proposed by Gazprom Management Committee

Damen pontoons and barges arrive in the port of Rotterdam

Volgograd Branch of LUKOIL-BUNKER LLC commences operation in navigation 2014

IAA PortNews publishes exclusive video of cargo unloading to fast ice near port Sabetta being built in the Arctic

Bunker prices in Far East ports up in early 15th week (graph)

ULJANIK Shipyard launches fourth ferry for Jadrolinija

Rolls-Royce to supply engines and anchor handling equipment for Bourbon Offshore Norway

Throughput of Baltic Coal Terminal (Latvia) up 7.7% to over 1.5 mln t in QI'14

Media-Group PortNews to publish special issue of Russian Shipping journal by POSIDONIA exhibition

Clarksons opens dry cargo broking operation in New York

Baltic Dry Index down to 1,186 points

Oil price down to $105.82 in London and down to $100.44 in New York

Throughput of EVRAZ NCSP up 22% to over 2 mln t in QI'14

Aleksandr Kotovsky appointed as Director of Rosmorport’s Crimea Basin Branch (photo)

Port of Singapore is first in the world to mandate the adoption of mass flow metering system for bunkering

Throughput of port Liepaja (Latvia) up 4.8% to 1,416,700 t in QI'14

RF Transport Ministry approves new Compulsory Regulations in Nevelsk Seaport

Nikolai Mozgovoi appointed as Director of Rosmorport’s Sevastopol Branch (photo)

Throughput of port Arkhangelsk down 4.3% to 1 mln t in QI'14