News 2015 August 21

Professional cycle race starting from Stena ferry in Kiel

Baltiysky Zavod schedules launching of lead nuclear-powered icebreaker Arktika, Project 22220, for May 26, 2016

MISC Berhad to divest 50% shareholding in VTTI B.V.

Assembling of light posts commenced at port Bronka (photo)

Dan-Bunkering announces new Marketing Executive in Beijing

Transport Prosecutor’s Office proposes enhancing powers of basin captains and port control inspectors in respect of ship detention (photo)

Tanker Investments completes acquisition of six Suezmax tankers

First oil delivered by new technological tunnel is loaded onto Sovcomflot’s tanker (photo)

TTS Group ASA gets new contract for delivery of cargo access equipment to two pure car/truck carriers

Yantar shipyard presents project of ferryboat for Sakhalin

Rijkswaterstaat awards construction of the new sea lock to Consortium OpenIJ

Concordia Maritime’s Kim Ullman buys more shares

Prosafe posts H1 2015 results

GEMINI awards long-term maintenance contract to Belgian OWA and German EWE OSS

Gdansk welcomes second regular ocean container service

Port of Gdansk - a new rail gateway for Central and Eastern Europe

Diana Shipping announces direct continuation of time charter agreement for m/v Crystalia with Glencore

Draft decision on allowable bunker stores volumes submitted to EEC

Throughput of port Kaliningrad down 5% to 7,512,100 in 7M’15

Throughput of Oktyabrsk seaport (Ukraine) up 0.4% to 3.94 mln t in 7M’15

Dorian LPG takes delivery VLGC Constitution from Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries

Throughput of port Vysotsk down 6% to 9,896,500 t in 7M’15

Rosneft closes the transaction for the acquisition of a Russian Oilfield Service Company from Trican Well Service Ltd.

Bunker prices at port St. Petersburg changed slightly in late 34th week (graph)

Throughput of port Vyborg down 17% to 794,800 t in 7M’15

Hapag-Lloyd to increase rates from East Asia to East Coast of South America

Baltic Dry Index down to 1,014 points

Brent Crude futures price up 0.33% to $46.23, Light Sweet Crude - down 1.08% to $40.88

Throughput of Vostochny Port JSC up 4.4% to 13.13 mln t in 7M’15

Vladimir Putin says prevention of illegal exports of petroleum products during bunker loading is still a vital problem

Grushovaya-Sheskharis technological tunnel put into operation in Novorossiysk