News 2014 December 16

Bunker prices at port Novorossiysk plunge in 51st week (graph)

ClassNK register tops 230M GT

Russian companies will operate in the Arctic regardless of foreign technologies, Natural Resources Minister says

BC Ferries eliminates fuel surcharge before the holidays

Port Vysotsky handled 5 mln t of coal from year beginning

Bunker prices at Far East ports goes down in early 51st week (graph)

North-Western Shipping Company boosts grain lighterage by 46% to 876,000 t this year

New LNG carrier of Sovcomflot is named SCF Melampus (photo)

Throughput of NCSP Group down 5.7% to 122 mln t in Jan-Nov’14

KTK orders two Damen Stan Tugs 1205

Paradise Cruise&Ferry arranges media-cruise Sochi-Istanbul-Batumi-Sochi on board M/V Isabella 1 on December 25-30

Hapag-Lloyd changes North Pacific 3 Service (NP3)

Baltic Dry Index down to 845 points

Oil price up to $63.68 in London and up to $55.91 in New York

Boskalis and Kotug merge European harbour towage operations

Alena Igumnova appointed as Acting Director General of United Grain Company

Federal financing of Russia’s inland water ways to be raised to RUB 20 bln by 2018, Transport Minister says

Former leaders of Vostochny Port’s Trade Union to serve time in standard regime colony

Hapag-Lloyd shifts service from Tacoma to Seattle

FESCO Transportation Group refinanced REPO loan