News 2015 April 1

Mega boxship MSC Oliver enters service with Mediterranean Shipping Company's fleet

Launching of the website of Russia's candidate for the IMO Secretary General post

IMO receives nominations of six candidates for position of IMO Secretary-General

BMT SMART partners with Aage Hempel

Knightsbridge announces closing of the merger with Golden Ocean

Diana Shipping Inc. signs a Term Loan Facility with ABN AMRO BANK

Vladimir Nikitin officially introduced as Director General to the staff of the Krylov State Research Centre (photo)

CMA CGM changes the rotation of its EURAF 4 line

Dmitry Medvedev orders to resume budgetary allocations for designing of port in Pionersky (Kaliningrad)

Navigation season officially opened in Azov-Don Basin

CMA CGM to implement a blank sailing program for April 2015 on its Far East - North Europe lines

Vanino Customs joins Khabarovsk Customs

ICTSI Adriatic unit services largest vessel to call in Croatia

SeaZip Offshore Service takes delivery of two more Twin Axe Fast Crew Suppliers

Royal Bahamas Defence Force takes delivery of last of four Stan Patrol 4207 vessels

Busan Port total cargo volume up 13.7% to 1.515 mil.TEUs in Feb 2015

Tatiana Antosiyeva appointed Chief Engineer of Rosmorport’s Sakhalin Branch

Hapag-Lloyd informs about void vessel position for Far East Trade – Europe - Asia / Loop 4

IUMI’ Spring Statistics report a continued reduction in total losses

Hess selects BMT for Stampede Marine Monitoring System

Seaspan accepts delivery of seventh 10000 TEU SAVER containership

WAN HAI to launch independent South China-Vietnam-Malaysia Service

Ingalls Shipbuilding gets $499.8 million contract for eighth NSC

OOCL announces rate increase on Southeast Asia-Australia services

FESCO announces cash tender offers for certain outstanding debt securities

Loading at Russian Railways network down 0.6% to 292.1 mln t in Jan-Mar’15

Bunker market of port St. Petersburg sees mixed price movements in early 14th week (graph)

COSCO announces rescheduling of delivery of drilling rigs

Baltic Dry Index up to 602 points

Consolidated profit of Commercial Port of Vladivostok up 1.6 times to RUB 2.72 bln in 2014

DEME and Nordsee Offshore to co-develop the MEG I offshore wind farm in the German North Sea

Oil price down to $55.11 in London and down to $47.6 in New York

Helsinki and Tallinn to further develop the TWIN-PORT concept

Rosmorport announces tender for maintenance dredging at the approaches to port Kavkaz