News 2014 August 8

Pella shipyard (Leningrad region) to build two Baklan-project boats for Russia’s FSB (photo)

Cammell Laird strengthens Energy Division with £1.5m investment and new appointment

Containerships informs about Russian ban on certain commodities

Bunker fuel for dredging fleet in Sabetta to be supplied by Bunkering Company CJSC (Arkhangelsk)

Virginia-class submarine North Dakota completes sea trials

Murmansk Region’s Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs enters into agreement with regional authorities (photo)

Hapag-Lloyd informs about temporary changes on its Europe - Asia Loop 4

Austal USA launches second vessel of ten LCS series

Transoil acquires 25% of Port Ust-Luga Transportation Company OJSC

Rostec brings mobile seaport to market

NNS installs final mast section on CVN 72

Rosneft eyes construction of LNG complex in Bronka, Gorskaya or Ust-Luga

Throughput of Russian seaports up 6.5% to 357.3 mln t in Jan-July’14

Hoegh LNG Partners prices IPO

Nakhodka Ship Repair Yard launches tanker Sakhalin built for Rosneft (photo)

Schlumberger Norway and Statoil to provide integrated drilling services for the Norwegian continental shelf

Ingalls Shipbuilding delivers composite deckhouse for DDG 1001

Belukha-series tugboat built by Pella Shipyard for Russian Navy completes sea trials

Rosneft intends to use new anchorage points for storage tankers at port Kavkaz

Bunker prices at port St. Petersburg declined in late 32nd week (graph)

NYK's eco tugboat receives 2013 Marine Engineering of the Year award

Vroon’s Livestock carrier Holstein Express completes drydocking

Baltic Dry Index up to 765 points

Oil price up to $105.44 in London and down to $97.34 in New York