News 2014 November 28

Cochin Shipyard launches the twelfth fast patrol vessel

Yaroslavsky Shipyard lays keel of ice class workboat of Project WB22MT-1 for Rosmorport (photo)

RS Class: keel laying of new tugs in China

Shipping industry sets out progress on CO2 reduction on eve of UN Climate Conference

Icebreaker Krasin returns to Saint-Petersburg after repair in Kronshtadt

Transneft approves Long-Term Development Program until 2020

IMO adopts shipping routes in Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef (GBR) and Torres Strait

Port of Amsterdam to increase its annual throughput to 100 mln t by 2017

IMO decides to make it mandatory to weigh loaded containers before they are transported by sea

Deputy Chairman of Arkhangelsk Region Government Sergei Krzhanovsky to take part in II International Forum of Dredging Companies

Damen Shipyards Changde (China) lays down tugboats for Russia’s Far East ports

Van Oord to acquire activities of Ballast Nedam Offshore

BIMCO urges IMO to reduce red tape for the shipping industry

OTEKO to create multipurpose transshipment complex in Taman with capacity exceeding 100 mln t by 2025

Shipowners welcome revamped EU anti-piracy naval mission that will run until 2016

UASC names first ever LNG-ready ultra large boxship at HHI Shipyard in Ulsan

MOL and Tokyo LNG Tanker sign basic agreement for a long-term charter contract to build a new LNG carrier

An overview of the past ten months in the Port of Gdansk

Finnlines Plc’s employee co-operation negotiations concerning the crew of MS Finnsailor ended

EU regulation on CO2 reporting by ships may complicate global agreement, says ICS

First vessel with Russian coal leaves port Rajin (N. Korea) for port Pohang (S. Korea)

Baltic Dry Index down to 1,187 points

Bunker prices at Far East ports change in late 48th week (graph)

Brent crude price down to $72.58