News 2014 July 3

Statoil will increase the Oseberg Øst field recovery rate

MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company announces BUC on cargo for the Australia and New Zealand Southbound

Boskalis joint venture awarded cable-laying contract for Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm

Newport News Shipbuilding completes anchor testing on CVN 78

Finnlines Plc starts employee co-operation negotiations concerning the crew of MS Finnhansa

BMT appoints new Technical Director

Hapag-Lloyd to adjust the rotation of its Sweden Denmark Express

Bunker prices in Far East ports down in late 27th week (graph)

MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company announces BUC on cargo from Adriatic/West Med. to South Africa & Mozambique

Bunker prices may open next week on lower note, expert says

Vallianz collaborates with the largest offshore engineering and construction company in China

MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company announces BUC on cargo from North Europe to South Africa

Babcock and Davie complete refit of Canada's polar icebreaker Louis St Laurent

HHLA subsidiary UNIKAI Lagerei- und Speditionsgesellschaft gets certificate from Det Norske Veritas Germanischer Lloyd

Royal Wagenborg launches multi-purpose dry cargo vessel Roerborg on 4th July

COSCON announces General Rate Increase for USA trade

Deepwater port is necessary for both Kaliningrad region and Russia in general, RSPP President says

MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company announces BUC on cargo to/from the Canaries

Investment at APM Terminals Algeciras puts Spain’s largest port on top in the Mediterranean

MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company announces BUC levels between North Europe & Med. and SAWC, Central America & Venezuela

ExxonMobil to invest 1 billion dollars in its refinery in the port of Antwerp

SOCAR’s exports of crude oil via port Novorossiysk hit 508,222 t in HI’14

Throughput of Rosterminalugol hits 7 mln t of cargo from year beginning

Offshore Wind Services orders Damen FCS 2008 for Dutch Offshore Wind Project

Russian Baltic Fleet rescuers received deep-water apparatus Panther Plus (photo)

Keppel to perform the world’s first-of-its-type FLNG vessel conversion for Golar

Baltic Dry Index down to 890 points

GasLog announces delivery of LNG carrier Solaris from Samsung Heavy Industries

Concrete works completed at decking of Bronka port’s start-up complex (photo)

Ingalls Shipbuilding awarded $76.5M advance procurement contract for eighth NSC

NYK Stolt Shipholdings orders two new parcel tankers

Oversize equipment shipped by Belfreight for Krasnoyarsk

Throughput of Neva-Metal (Saint-Petersburg) up 20% to 1.7 mln t in HI’14

Oil price down to $111.24 in London and down to $104.48 in New York