News 2014 April 18

SITC establishes new company in Shanghai FTZ

Throughput of Ukraine’s river ports up 17.6% to 523,300 t in QI'14

North-West Basin Branch icebreakers to participate in icebreakers festival (photo)

CIMC Raffles' semisubmersible accommodation rigs begin working for Petrobras

Throughput of Ukraine’s seaports up 4.8% to 36.72 mln t in QI'14

Tanker Mikhail Ulyanov commences oil transportation from Russia’s offshore Arctic project

USCG set to start salvage of grounded bulk carrier in Virginia Beach

Russian Maritime Register of Shipping participates in Arctic Shipping Forum

Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding lays keel for first SIGMA 10514 PKR Frigate

Throughput of Universal Reloading Complex LLC (Ust-Luga) up 23% to 914,000 t in QI'14

Grey seal pup found at Bronka site is alive and well (photos)

Shipyard Pella launches tugboat Griphon-8 of project 90600 (photo)

Tanker Mikhail Ulyanov to commence oil transportation from Russia’s offshore Arctic project

TGE Marine wins further contracts for LNG fuel gas systems

Van Oord has acquired all shares of its Spanish subsidiary Dravo S.A.

Royal Caribbean to homeport its brand new Quantum of the Seas in China

Throughput of Sea Port of Saint-Petersburg up 5% to 1.9 mln t in QI'14

Vega Biofuel delivers 3,000 tons of bio-coal to Europe

Baltic Dry Index down to 930 points

Nevsky Shipyard to lay down tanker of project 23130 for RF Defence Ministry and bulker of project RSD49 for NWSC on April 26

Oil price down to $109.53 in London and up to $104.3 in New York

Port of Rotterdam throughput down 0.2% to 109 million tonnes in Q1 of 2014