News 2014 August 5

Tuapse Commercial Seaport starts allowing up to 30-pct discounts for services of tugboats and auxiliary fleet

BW Offshore successfully completed $800M bank loan

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

Throughput of port Helsinki (Finland) up 5% to 5.9 mln t in Jan-July’14

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

Essar Projects bags USD 54 million maiden contract from Saudi Aramco

Throughput of Baltic Coal Terminal (Latvia) down 10% to 2.55 mln t in Jan-July’14

Throughput of Ukraine’s seaports up 7.6% to 78.77 mln t in Jan-July’14

Maaskant Shipyards Stellendam delivers three seismic research support vessels for Rederij Groen

M/V Taknis refused access to the Paris MoU region

Sinopacific to build three SPP17A-design vessels for Mexican shipping company

Almaz Shipyard (Saint-Petersburg) launches forth serial floating crane for Russian Ministry of Defense (photo)

VOS Hades joins Aberdeen fleet

Bunker prices in Far East ports down in early 32nd week (graph)

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

Hapag-Lloyd informs about a terminal change on Asia Suez Express (AZX)

Transportation of accommodation unit's topsides for Filanovsky field completed (photo)

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

Sinopacific books order for four SPA60 AHTS vessels from Vallianz

MOL receives Green Flag Award and Vessel Speed Reduction Award from both Long Beach and Los Angeles ports

Russian-Japanese seminar ‘Сooperation in shipbuilding and ship repair’ to be held in St. Petersburg

Global shipping bodies issue Ebola virus advice

Nevsky Shipyard will launch multipurpose salvage vessel “SPASATEL DEMIDOV”

EBDG to design new class of ferries for Staten Island Ferry

Russia’s fleet of Meteor boats to be replaced with ships made entirely from composite materials

HII gets $49.6 million contract for CVN73 defueling

Throughput of Vostochny Port up 20.1% to 12.57 mln t in Jan-July’14 (photo)

Russia's crude exports down 5% to 130.14 mln t in Jan-July’14

Wärtsilä wins ship design contract for environmentally sound Gulf of Bothnia ferry

Baltic Dry Index up to 753 points

Mordraga LLC (DEME Group) commences dredging operations at port Sabetta

MEYER WERFT joins forces with STX Finland

Oil price up to $105.41 in London and down to $98.29 in New York