News 2015 January 29

From January 1, 2015, Maersk ships sailing in the Baltic Sea run on low-sulphur fuel (photo)

MABUX: Bunker prices to edge downward next week

Sovcomflot’s fleet under RS supervision increased by 33% to 40 vessels in 2014

Fincantieri set up company in Trieste, Italy

Finnish union AKT boycotts Unifeeder's container vessels in ports

LUKOIL starts upgrade of lube plant in Austria

HII names Rob Hogan VP, Manufacturing at Newport News Shipbuilding

Konecranes introduces UNITON overhead crane

Throughput of stevedoring companies of UCL Port up 7% to 30.5 mln t in 2014

Hapag-Lloyd omits Genoa Port on EAX Service

Bunker prices at Far East ports change in late 5th week (graph)

Hapag-Lloyd informs about temporary rotation change on WAN Service

Maaskant Shipyards delivers two custom-made offshore winches to Fugro

Port service vessel ВТН-74 built by Pella Shipyard (Leningrad region) for RF Navy delivered to port Baltijsk

Gazprom posts 9M’14 net profit of RUB 556.25 mln (-35%, year-on-year)

Nuclear icebreaker Taimyr assists M/V Yury Arshenevsky from Arkhangelsk to Sabetta (photo)

US Coast Guard rescued two men stranded on a Bahamian Island

RAO/CIS Offshore 2015 to focus on prospects of development of offshore oil and gas fields

Evergreen to beef up its fleet with eleven chartered mega-containerships

The Douglas Channel LNG Consortium takes full ownership and control of the Douglas Channel LNG project

MOL, Mitsui sign deal to charter LNG carrier

Baltic Dry Index down to 666 points

Oil price down to $48.47 in London and down to $44.45 in New York