News 2014 September 12

Registration ongoing: Join the International Conference “Impact of Shipping on Air in Europe”, St. Petersburg

“K” Line continues to be selected as an Index Component of Dow Jones

Statoil, GE and Ferus Natural Gas Fuels expand a pilot project capturing flare gas and using it to power six drill rigs and one frac fleet

Kalmar to supply the first Super Gloria reachstacker to Egon Evertz in Germany

Sovcomflot’s LNG carrier Pskov set off for her maiden voyage

New filter option gives Alfa Laval PureBallast 3.0 unrivalled performance

Höegh LNG announces resignation of director

COSCON announces General Rate Increase for Transpacific trade

Lithuania to complete works on Rail Baltica in 2015

Stockholm, Frihamnen introduces sobriety checkpoint

Kalmar's Super Gloria completes world record lift at Lidhult, Sweden

Vladimir Putin approves creation of common SCO transport system

Port of Klaipeda (Lithuania) forecasts 4.8 pct growth of throughput to 35 mln t in 2014

Magam Ruhunupura Mahinda Rajapaksa Port exceed 100,000 units of vehicle handling this year

Throughput of Klaipeda seaport (Lithuania) up 4% to 23.3 mln t in Jan-Aug’14

Hapag-Lloyd informs about schedule deviations on its North Pacific 1 Service

The South Carolina Ports Authority awarded $10.8 mln TIGER Grant

G6 Alliance announces Asia-U.S. West Coast Schedule Update

Cruise ship Silver Explorer calls at Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (photo)

The first Havyard WE design delivered to Fafnir Offshore

EU imposes sanctions on Rosneft, Transneft and Gazprom Neft

Odessa Commercial Sea Port starts test operation of new container terminal at Quarantine Mole (photo)

European Commission approves merger of container shipping activities between CSAV and Hapag-Lloyd

Lenmorniiproekt and Evpatoriysky trade port signed Cooperation agreement

Wärtsilä wins biggest ever single owner order for Ballast Water Management Systems

CMA CGM Group presents the latest version of its global East-West service offer

Rates for personnel launch and tugboat services changed at port Sabetta

IFO-180 price at port Saint-Petersburg slightly down in late 37th week (graph)

Baltic Dry Index down to 1,186 points

Oil price up to $98.08 in London and up to $92.83 in New York

Bunker prices at port St. Petersburg down in late 37th week (graph)