News 2015 April 15

Singapore celebrates 10th Singapore Maritime Week in conjunction with SG50 with People, Ideas and Opportunities

ITF expresses condolences over Antwerp docker deaths

Nautronix successfully deploys NASNet®

Queen Elizabeth calls at Zayed Port and celebrates 175th anniversary

Antwerp port's throughput rises 5.9% in O1 2015 to 51 million tonnes

New Spanish container service for Tilbury

New offshore and deck crane contracts for TTS Group

Throughput of port Azov down 3.5% to 1.07 mln t in QI'15

Throughput of port Taganrog up 19.5% to 736,000 t in QI'15

Gazflot announces tender for construction of floating regasification plant worth of RUB 21.78 bln

Hamburg Süd’s subsidiary Alianҫa beefs up its cabotage fleet

Navig8 Ametrine joins the Delta8 Pool

TTS Group signs marine package equipment order in China

LUKOIL and World Wildlife Fund sign cooperation agreement

SSA appoints Capt Ang Chin Eng as new Technical Director

Sea Port of Saint-Petersburg Q1 2015 cargo throughput gains 5% to 2 million tonnes

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

Federation Council OKs transport tariffs regulation for shipping services on the Crimea-Krasnodar Region route

LEEVAC Shipyards launches its second PSV for Aries Marine Corporation

Arkhangelsk Region Governor suggests setting up of federal center for Arctic research in Arkhangelsk

CMA CGM announces GRR from North Europe to the Far East

Transoil increased crude and oil products transportation by 6% to some 59 mln t in 2014

Dublin Port cargo volumes rises 5.3% in Q1 2015

EUROGATE Group operating profit up by 10.2% in the past fiscal year

Working dredgers at new Suez Canal project accomplish dredging of 138 million cubic meter of sand

PIL reorganises services from Far East to East Coast South America

Bunker prices at port St. Petersburg continue growing in early 16th week (graph)

Egypt transport ministry prepares list of investment projects worth of $13.5 billion till 2030

Swiber secures US$133 million contract

Throughput of Taganrog Commercial Seaport up 53% to 379,000 t in QI'15

Otto Marine’s Shipyard delivers four new-build vessels worth a total contract value of USD 36.6 mln

Baltic Dry Index up to 581 points

G6 Alliance announces Asia - North America Summer Programme

Amendments initiated into technological procedures of border checkpoints at ports Olya and Astrakhan

Meyer becomes 100% owner of Turku shipyard

Samsung Heavy Industries and Aker Arctic will jointly design tankers for Arctic project Novy Port (graphics)

Oil price up to $58.93 in London and up to $53.29 in New York

Concordia Maritime’s IMOIIMAX tanker Stena Image named in Guangzhou