News 2015 July 17

SNSZ Shipyard launches R1650 "Rondo" series fast patrol cutter (photo)

Port facilities commissioned at the seaport of Kaliningrad

Deepocean awarded offshore renewable contract in Belgium

Wärtsilä to adjust its Ship Power business

Port of Rotterdam throughput grows by 6.8%

Barque Kruzenshtern ready to put to sea for post-repair trials in the Baltic Sea

Freight throughput at Yeysk port edged down 1.6% in H1 2015 to 1.4 million tonnes

Monthly throughput of Estonian ports falls 17% to 2.70 million tonnes

DEC and Veidekke to carry out remediation of historic refinery site for ESSO Norge AS

PortNews IAA updates its Dredging page with new tenders for contracts

Crowley promotes Brown to VP of Information Technology

RV "Nadezhda" carries out monitoring under HELCOM MORS program in the Gulf of Finland (photo release)

Bugsier place first time order with Damen for ASD 2411

7,134 MW power plant of port's energy supply Phase1 enter service at Bronka (photo)

OOCL updates Rate Applicability Rule for Australia/New Zealand trade

Bunker prices at St. Petersburg port end week 29 mixed (graph)

MOL bulk carrier rescues castaways

Russian Gov't OKs rate regulation rules for water-borne transport between the ports of Crimea and Krasnodar Krai

Bunker prices at Far Eastern ports end week 29th firm (graph)

Port of Long Beach container volume down 4.4 percent in June 2015

Frontier Agriculture becomes the exclusive strategic partner for the Port of Tilbury

Aker Philadelphia Shipyard to change name to Philly Shipyard

Brent Crude futures prices edge up to $57,05 in London, in New York Light Sweet Crude to $50.89 a barrel

Baltic Dry Index jumps 6.1%, hits 1,000 pts high

CIMC Raffles deliveres two 50,000 semisubmersible heavy lift vessels

NSC James (WMSL 754) sails from Ingalls

Grain rail traffic to / from ports drop 6.7% in H1 to 2.56 million tonnes