News 2015 July 7

Marine Façade (Saint-Petersburg) welcomed 13 cruise ships and 4 ferries on June 29 - July 5

MEPs support shipping industry’s call for stronger Member State action in the Mediterranean

Grup TCB modernizes its Turkish terminal with eight new leading-edge machines

Throughput of port Yuzhny (Ukraine) up 10.3% to 24.25 mln t in HI’15

Temasek net portfolio value up to S$266 billion from the previous year

Throughput of port Taganrog up 6.7% to 1.28 mln t in HI’15

Hapag-Lloyd to adjust the proforma schedule on Americas Service (USW)

Makarov Training Center has trained over 900 seafarers for ice navigation

CMA CGM announces GRR from all Asian ports to Mediterranean trades

Hapag-Lloyd to call Arica on the Conosur service

Bunker prices at Far East ports go down in early 28th week (graph)

CMA CGM announces GRR from all Asian ports to North Europe trade

Wärtsilä propulsion solution chosen for new Scottish fishing vessel

Cargo transportation within Azov-Don River Basin down 35.4% to 3.34 mln t in HI’15

G6 Alliance announces Asia - Europe schedule update

MacGregor wins orders for newly-introduced offshore lattice boom crane

Igor Glukhov takes up a position as a Harbour Master of seaport Vladivostok

GOBTC proposes to set up new international body for coordination in maritime training

TRIYARDS recieves vessel orders for two enhanced BH450 series liftboats

Carnival Vista ‘floated out’ at Fincantieri shipyard in Italy

Dredging to commence at Tauranga port

Throughput of EVRAZ NCSP in HI’15 is steady, y-o-y, at 4.3 mln t

APL’s schedule reliability up to 85.5% in May 2015

Brent oil price up 0.33% to $56.99, Light - up 0.7% to $52.89

Baltic Dry Index up to 815 points

Hyundai Heavy Industries and GE receive AIP for the world’s first gas turbine-powered LNG carrier