News 2014 October 8

Throughput of Russian seaports up 6.2% to 465.5 mln t in Jan-Sep’14

Management of the HaminaKotka Port Authority visits Port of Gdansk

MOL LNG carrier rescues drifting fishermen

The vessel “SPASATEL KAREV” took part in trainings of the Pechora Sea shelf

Students from Hamburg School of Business Administration visit Port Bronka (photo)

Seagoing tugboat Aleksandr Kuchin commences operation at port Sabetta (photo)

Panama Canal and Port Everglades discuss the long-standing relationship

Bunker prices at port Novorossiysk dropped in 41st week (graph)

Wärtsilä to develop Indonesia’s first bio-LNG plant in cooperation with local partners

Maritime experts to evaluate the roadmap for ship recycling sector sustainability at SMEM session

Wagenborg agrees with Bore Ltd. for the acquisition of four multipurpose vessels

Gazprom to place orders worth RUB 100 bln to build vessels needed for shelf development

MSC announces ECAF from North West continent ports, West Med, Scandinavia and Baltic Regions to/from Levant, Black Sea, Greece and Turkey

Bunker prices at port St. Petersburg plunged in 41st week (graph)

Charleston Harbor to be deepened to 52 feet

Throughput of EVRAZ NCSP up 23.6% to over 6.8 mln t in Jan-Sep’14

Unifeeder announces improvements on Russian service

Gazprom Gazomotornoye Toplivo set to create LNG infrastructure for bunkering in Russia’s North West and Sakhalin

OSM New Build Management announces successful PSV transfer & flotation

Further development of Lithuanian-Belarusian cooperation in the field of transport

Carnival Corporation finalizes land purchase in the Netherlands for new training facility

Combi Terminal Twente plans to increase the frequency of the Rotterdam-Bad Bentheim rail shuttle

Baltic Dry Index down to 1,015 points

Throughput Baltic Coal Terminal (Latvia) down 7.8% to 2.94 mln t in Jan-Sep’14

Oil price down to $92.11 in London and down to $88.85 in New York

M/V Sky 1 refused access to the Paris MoU region

Golden Ocean and Knightsbridge Shipping agree to merge