News 2015 March 20

Throughput of port Singapore up 5.9% to 95.68 mln t in Jan-Feb’15

CMA CGM announces GRR from all Asian ports to Sri Lanka, Pakistan, India

Port of Gdansk throughput up 4.4% to 5.2 mln t in Jan-Feb’15

CMA CGM announces GRR from all Asian ports to all Middle East Gulf ports

BW LPG announces delivery of VLGC Vermilion First

Bunker sales of Rosneft up 21% to almost 4 mln t in 2014

MOL implements General Rate Restoration to Madagascar and Mozambique

Throughput of port Ust-Luga up 24% to 13,454,000 t in Jan-Feb’15

IMO launches online surveys on ballast water management systems

Throughput of port Saint-Petersburg down 8% to 8,099,600 t in Jan-Feb’15

Hanson Road Boat Ramp construction works commence

Throughput of port Primorsk up 8% to 9,890,100 t in Jan-Feb’15

Alfa Laval wins SEK 115 million offshore pumping systems order

Sevmash lays down nuclear submarine of new generation (photo)

Rijksrederij takes delivery of its scientific research vessel Tridens after an extensive refit at Damen Maaskant Shipyards

Singapore reaffirms commitment to regional counter-piracy efforts

BMT secures training accreditation from APM

Baltic Dry Index up to 584 points

Oil price down to $54.43 in London and down to $45.53 in New York

Dozens of berths in Crimea operate outside legal environment, Gosmorrechnadzor says

Giant lock gates for Deurganck dock lock due to arrive in Antwerp at end of May

Icebreaker Murmansk, Project 21900М, to be launched on March 25, 2015 in Helsinki

JSC “Latvian Shipping Company” posts profit of 1.6 million EUR for 2014

Bunker market of port St. Petersburg sees mixed price movements in late 12th week (graph)

COSCO (Zhoushan) Shipyard deliveres a 64,000 DWT bulk carrier to its Asian buyer