News 2015 May 8

Construction of largest OCV at Ulstein Verft passes important milestone

Throughput of Arkhangelsk Sea Commercial Port up 17% to 566,000 t in Jan-Apr’15

Royal Caribbean orders fourth Quantum-class vessel

Three cruise ships make their maiden calls to Passenger port of Saint Petersburg

Throughput of port Liepaja (Latvia) down 1.7% to 1.834 mln t in Jan-Apr’15

SINOPACIFIC launches 2 newly built SPP17A

James Fisher completes acquisition of Mojo Maritime Ltd

Hyundai Heavy Industries puts its fuel saving propeller attachment into service

OOCL announces new China East Coast Express 2 Service

Euroports Italy commissions the largest state-of-the-art scrap metal yard in the North Adriatic Sea

Fincantieri and Finmeccanica will renew the Italian navy’s fleet

UN Secretary-General appoints DNV GL CEO Henrik O. Madsen as new Global Compact board member

Boskalis loads first ship-shaped FPSO onto Dockwise

Krasnoye Sormovo (Nizhni Novgorod) launches Sinergy 2, tanker of Project RST27 (photo)

Hapag-Lloyd updates CAF levels, bunker related charges

COSCON strengthen the feeder network via Piraeus

Nikolai Kalistratov elected as Director General of Ship Repair Center ‘Zvezdochka’

Swire Shipping to offer North Asia Express service

Congratulations on the Victory Day!

USCG hands over its decommissioned cutter to Bangladesh Navy

Coal exports via Rosterminalugol terminal up 16% to 5.24 mln t in Jan-Apr’15

APM Terminals facility in Brazil shows new productivity record

BC Ferries adds extra sailings to its busiest routes

New DNV GL study outlines regulatory futures, recommendations to reduce risk of major accidents

Bunker market of port St. Petersburg sees mixed price movements in late 19th week

Costamare announces pricing of its 8.75% Series D preferred stock

Throughput of port Riga (Latvia) up 4.7% to 14.069 mln t in Jan-Apr’15

Zelenodolsk shipyard (Tatarstan) lays down ninth boat of 21980 project for RF Navy (photo)

L-3 SAM Electronics to supply equipment for six Royal Malaysian Navy ships

Throughput of Neva-Metal (Saint-Petersburg) down 12% to 1 mln t in Jan-Apr’15

OTC 2015: ABS Achieves ISQM Milestone

Evergreen launches Vietnam-Singapore-Malaysia service

Vroon launches subsea-support vessel

VT Halter Marine delivers new Con-Ro vessel to Pasha Hawaii

APL Logistics opens new container freight station in Jakarta

Turkish Stream to start gas supplies in December 2016

Gazprom and PetroVietnam to drill first deep-water well offshore Vietnam this year

Oil price down to $65.54 in London and down to $58.94 in New York

Baltic Dry Index down to 573 points