News 2014 May 20

UK launches Astute-class sub "Artful"

Straits of Malacca and Singapore safe passage pamphlet launched at IMO

Throughput of port Gdansk (Poland) up 18.7% to 11.07 mln t in Jan-Apr’14

Kalmar launches new electric forklift truck and Big Wheel forklift

Construction of 25-MW icebreaker is 1.5 year behind schedule, RF Transport Ministry says

ABB wins over $20 million orders in first quarter for offshore vessels

RF Ministry of Industry and Trade finds it reasonable to develop three shipyards in Crimea

Stream Tankers sells ten chemical tankers to BW Tankers

GDF SUEZ launches GDF SUEZ New Ventures, a €100 million investment fund to finance innovative startups

82nd Ship Repair Yard OJSC to be relocated to 35th Ship Repair Yard (Murmansk region)

Lotos Shipyard (Astrakhan) launches M/V Anatoly Sidenko, second dry cargo carrier of project RSD49 (photo)

Vard secures contract for one PSV for Carlotta Offshore

OOCL receives tenth 13,208 TEU Mega Class newbuilding

MV Azores calls at Passenger Port of Saint-Petersburg

Summa Group signs agreement with Jilin Province (China) on development of port Zarubino (Primorsk Territory)

DP World Australia and Navis celebrate grand opening of operations in Brisbane

Sonardyne International joins the 5th annual International Port Security conference

Bunker prices in Far East ports slightly up in early 21st week (graph)

Damen Shiprepair Brest (France) gets its 10th LNG carrier repair order from GDF SUEZ

Novatek and CNPC sign contract on supply of 3 mln t of LNG per year

ADPC Marine Services classifies fleet with TASNEEF

COSCO Container Lines announces General Rate Increase for Far East to South America & Mexico trade

Alfa Laval wins SEK 75 million order for marine exhaust gas cleaning systems

Cargo transportation by water transport in Ukraine down 2.2% to 1.2 mln t in Jan-Apr’14

Water transport of Ukraine carried 0.06 mln passengers in Jan-Apr’14 (+26.5%, y-o-y)

Baltic Dry Index down to 1,022 points

Throughput of Ukraine’s river ports up 24% to 829,900 t in Jan-Apr'14

Oil price down to $109.37 in London and up to $102.61 in New York

RUB 450 mln to be allocated for reconstruction of Evpatoria seaport’s infrastructure in 2015 - 2017