News 2014 October 20

Wagenborg handles 85-tonne Barge Master crane for new 'walk-to-work' vessel

Vizag Seaport receives first Panamax Vessel

Throughput of Taganrog Commercial Seaport down 14% to 858,000 t in Jan-Sep’14

Russia’s position on Polar Code partly taken into account at MEPC 67

Stena Line believes in Nynäshamn-Ventspils and expands the sailing schedule

Russian Maritime Register of Shipping takes part in Shiptec China 2014

Frontline appoints new CEO

Rolls-Royce signs a co-operation agreement with Astican Shipyard, Canary Islands

CMA CGM to implement an Emergency Port Congestion Surcharge from Asia to Shuwaikh (Kuwait)

ICS welcomes IMO progress on Ballast Water issues

OPDR extends service at Tilbury’s London Container Terminal

Average wholesale prices for М-100 HFO down to RUB 11,550 in RF spot market

Vallianz signs new charter contracts worth US$64 mln

Head of Primorsk Territory asks RF Government to ban bunkering on the open sea

Klaipėda Seaport – great transit corridor between two continents, Prime Minister of Lithuania says

Samsung Heavy Industries receives the highest level of safety management evaluation from the UK’s marine insurers

KOTUG’s new hybrid Rotortug RT Evolution arrives in Rotterdam

AIDA Cruises christens world’s first LNG Hybrid Barge in Hamburg

Oil price up to $86.16 in London and up to $82.75 in New York

Baltic Dry Index up to 944 points

Boskalis consortium acquires Suez Canal expansion contract

Throughput of port Singapore up 5.1% to 435.89 mln t in Jan-Sep’14

Throughput of Chinese ports up 4.5% to 8.31 bln t in Jan-Sep’14

'Interactive Pier' wins international competition for waterfront park masterplan of the Busan North Port

Sembcorp Marine’s subsidiaries secure two contracts totalling S$222 mln