News 2015 July 8

Unique crane for port Bronka is under assembling in Rostock, Germany (photo)

Throughput of port Kavkaz up 80% to 8.93 mln t in HI’15

The Council of the Federation approves the law on Free Port of Vladivostok

Marine Façade (Saint-Petersburg) welcomed 50 cruise ships and two ferries in June’15 (photo)

Hapag-Lloyd changes terminals in New York on its Asia Suez Express (AZX) Service

Vessel Gener8 Daphne joins to V8 Pool

Throughput of port Temryuk up 59% to 1.48 mln t in HI’15

Maersk Line orders nine 14,000 TEU container vessels

ABB won contract to enable integration of French offshore wind parks

Navis N4 terminal operating system goes live at Port of Liverpool

IMO should develop detailed standards for training and certifying of MOU crewmembers, Koji Sekimizu says (photo)

DFDS Seaways and Forth Ports to invest over EUR 6 million in Rosyth-Zeebrugge freight route

Kalmar to run a complete refurbishment of two ship-to-shore cranes for ACCHCO in Egypt

Throughput of port Liepaja (Latvia) up 0.8% to 2.7 mln t

TTS Group ASA signes two contracts for 6 vessels

Two big brands merge into INMEX-SMM India 2015

IACS names ABS' Chris Wiernicki as new Chairman

Kerch Strait ferries carried 2,785 vehicles, 10,813 passengers

Tall ships success for ABP apprentices

Coal exports via Rosterminalugol terminal rose 17% in H1 to more than 8 million tonnes

Throughput of Odessa Commercial Sea Port up 3.5% to 11.95 mln t in HI’15

Bunker prices at port St. Petersburg go down in 28th week (graph)

Throughput of Vostochny Port OJSC up 4% to 11.18 mln t in HI’15 (photo)

Russian Chamber of Shipping calls for harmonization of RF education law with STCW Convention (photo)

New simulator complex for tanker personnel unveiled at Makarov Training Center (photo)

Brent oil price down 2.34% to $56.13, Light - down 1.36% to $51.62

MacGregor secures comprehensive equipment package order for two bulk carriers from China

Baltic Dry Index up to 830 points