News 2015 August 5

Totem Ocean picks shipyard for conversion of its Ro-Ro vessel to LNG propulsion

US Coast Guard celebrates its 225th birthday

Hapag-Lloyd hikes rates on Far East westbound - East Asia to North Europe and Mediterranean

Twelfth New Armada type tanker of project RST22M built for Palmali Group is launched in Turkey (photo)

MAN Diesel & Turbo propulsion packages ordered for two dredger newbuildings

Hapag-Lloyd announces void sailings on its Mediterranean lines

Dorian LPG Ltd. posts net income of $ 13.7 million for Q1 2016

Onezhsky Shipyard of FSUE Rosmorport completes first stage of repairs of Enisey pilot boat

AEG PS selected by Fincantieri to provide power supply solutions for cruise vessel

Vehicle, passenger traffic on Kerch Strait ferry service jumps to 9.594 units and 40,361 people

Port of Gdansk and city of Gdansk cooperate for environmental protection

Throughput of Rosterminalugol up 14.3% to 9,65 mln t in 7M’15

CMA CGM takes delivery of second GUYANAMAX boxship from Hyundai Mipo Dockyard

Rosmorport announces tender for maintenance dredging at water area of port Tuapse

Throughput of Port Vysotsky LLC down 2.5% to 3 mln t in 7M’15

Evergreen's container ship to call at Iran's Shahid Rajaei port

Water Transport newspaper is available with its new supplement “Moscow” (photo)

French shipping group's 8,478teu boxship CMA CGM Vivaldi calls at Canadian Port of Halifax

Multipurpose Reloading Complex (Ust-Luga) increased financing of environmental programme 6 times to RUB 5.2 mln in HI'15

CVN 78 construction nears completion at HII's Newport News Shipbuilding division

Koole Terminals starts operating storage facility in Pernis

Bunker prices at port St. Petersburg go down this week (graph)

USCG continues to monitor oil recovery operations near Bayonne, New Jersey

Meyer Turku kicks off construction of new LNG powered fast ferry for Tallink

Cargo transportation within Azov-Don River Basin down 32.4% to 4.84 mln t in 7M’15

Brand new USCG cutter enters Boston Harbor

Brent Crude futures price up 0.85% to $50.61, Light Sweet Crude - up 1.15% to $46.27

GE Marine to supply LM2500 gas turbines for two U.S. Navy destroyers

BC Ferries announces open houses for Southern Gulf Islands project

Throughput of Neva-Metal (Saint-Petersburg) down 4% to 1.9 mln t in 7M’15

Australia's PM Abbott announces shipbuilding plan for the Royal Australian Navy’s surface fleet

Baltic Dry Index up to 1,200 points

Contship Italia Group's LSCT set to commission 23 gantry cranes

Supervisory Board of Commercial Port of Vladivostok elects Konstantin Sokolov as its Chairman

ZNT Yard launches nonselfpropelled pontoon wharf for Rescue Service of Rosmorrechflot (photo)