News 2015 April 22

Passenger Port of St. Petersburg expects 232 calls in 2015

Rosmorrechflot invites bids for design of Arctic boxship for Northern Sea Route

Wallenius Shipping provides Distress Aid Kits

German shipowners appeal to Bundestag for more state aid for safe and rescue missions urgently required for Mediterranean boat refugees

Navis signs N4 license agreement with Baltic Container Terminal in Latvia

TOC Asia 2015: Larger vessels coupled with larger carrier alliances affect shipper and 3PLs relationship

The CMA CGM KERGUELEN welcomed with a unique arrangement at the Port Klang Terminal

Hapag-Lloyd informs about a void position on Far East Trade – Europe - Asia

The largest plate-bending machine in Poland starts operation in Gdańsk Shipyard

Yang Ming Marine launches Asia-ECSA service

Big Port St. Petersburg Harbourmaster gives green light to Korabelny Fairway opening

Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore honors MOL Group Company

COSCO (Dalian) Shipyard secures contract for FPSO conversion

A boxship built by Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries named “Green Ship of the Year”

The Swedish Armed Forces to carry out the 'Emerentia 15' exercise at the Port of Gothenburg

Leading maritime experts gather at International Chemical and Oil Pollution Conference and Exhibition 2015

Transport Ministry: Last year traffic flow via the Kerch ferry service soared 5.2 times to 644,000 vehicles

Subic Shipyard signs a deal to build six 11,000-TEU containerships for European and Asian shipping companies

Moscow Canal gateways to open on April 24 for transit of vessels

Cochin Shipyard launches the fifteenth fast patrol vessel

Sembcorp Marine's Sembawang Shipyard secures FSO conversion contract worth S$56 mln from Teekay Offshore Partners for Deployment in the North Sea

Veniamin Kondratiev tapped as interim Governor of Krasnodar region (photo)

Kalmar to provide Messina Line in Italy with new fleet of RoRo forklifts

Damen celebrates keel laying of two PSV 5000 vessels

Wärtsilä launches new innovative AHTS vessel design at Sea Asia Exhibition

BAE Systems' Norfolk Shipyard commemorates its 100th anniversary

Port of St. Petersburg bunker prices open the week on mixed note (graph)

Keel-laying, launching of three ships for Russian Navy slated for April 23-25

Baltic Dry Index edges up 0,5% to 601 points

New seagoing tugboat "Alexander Piskunov" joins Russian Navy's auxiliary fleet (photo)

Brent Crude futures price drops to $62,08 in London, in New York Light Sweet Crude gains to $56.61 a barrel