News 2015 April 8

CMA CGM opens a new corridor via Libreville to serve Gabon's inland destinations

Litasco and Burando Maritime Services to sell Service Terminal Rotterdam to iCON Infrastructure Partners II

Icebreaker Murmansk floated out of the dry dock

Fishing vessels risk gravely due to absence of international safety requirements, Vitaly Klyuev says (photo)

Konecranes wins order for 3 Ship-to-Shore cranes from Indonesia

Containerships to withdraw Winter Surcharge to and from Russian ports

Throughput of Odessa Commercial Sea Port (Ukraine) up 2% to 6.5 mln t in QI'15

Hapag-Lloyd terminates Portland call on its Mediterranean Pacific Service

State Transport Leasing Company to participate in renovation of Arctic fleet

Storage tanker for Gazprom Neft to be placed at port Murmansk

Atomflot forecasts transportation of 2 mln t of cargo to port Sabetta in 2015

Fenix LLC orders special truck for fast and safe mooring operations at port Bronka (photo)

The CMA CGM Group obtains the Kingston Containers Terminal concession and makes Jamaica its hub in the Caribbean

Icebreaker Tor fails to handle her job at port Sabetta, Murmansk Shipping Company says

Wärtsilä to provide predictive maintenance and optimal performance for Golar LNG's carrier

STLC to decide on financing of Lavna terminal project by year end

BMT Nigel Gee designed Njord Odin completes sea trials

French research vessel Marion Dufresne II arrives at Damen Shiprepair Dunkerque

Vitaly Klyuev participates in the first meeting of Russia-Indonesia Working Group on Transport and Infrastructure (photo)

Waterways of Saint-Petersburg are open for navigation from April 9

Alfa Laval enters into a patent licence agreement with Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering

Zamakona Yards signes a partnership agreement with British company Subsea Masters specialized in maintenance and repair of drilling equipment

Bunker prices at port St. Petersburg continue declining in 15th week (graph)

Baltic Dry Index is flat at 583 points

Oil price up to $59.1 in London and up to $53.98 in New York

50% of works under Phase I of Yamal LNG project accomplished

Dredgers working in new Suez Canal project succeeded in lifting 126 million, 350thousand cubic meter of sand saturated with water