News 2015 October 20

Bunker prices in the Far East ports up in early 43rd week (graph)

Passenger traffic of Ukraine’s water transport up 1.2% to 0.5 mln in 9M’15

GasLog completes $1.3bn financing facility for eight LNG newbuildings

NCSP Group cargo turnover for 9M 2015 grew 2.9% and reached 104 mln t

Turnover of Multipurpose Reloading Complex (Ust-Luga) up 10.5% to over 3,2 mln t in 9M’15

General Dynamics NASSCO christens first ECO tanker for APT

TRIYARDS adds another US$ 100 million to its newbuild order book

Acceptane/delivery certificate signed for tugboat MB-96 of project 02790 built by Pella shipyard (photo)

Cargo transportation by Ukraine’s water transport up 11.2% to 4.8 mln t in 9M’15

Noske-Kaeser introduces its new enterprise Noske-Kaeser Marine Australia

Technip awarded contract to supply hydrogen reformers for PETRONAS’ RAPID project in Malaysia

Smolny training ship of RF Navy's Baltic Fleet arrives in Spain

Phase I of railway construction works completed at port Bronka (photo)

Gothenburg becomes climate neutral

Northern Fleet major ASW ship Vice Admiral Kulakov moved to Barents Sea to practice cooperation with naval aviation

Diana Shipping announces time charter contracts for m/v New Orleans with SwissMarine and m/v Melia with Nidera

Murmansk Region is for facilitation of coastal fishing and processing development, Governor Marina Kovtun says (photo)

Hapag-Lloyd to increase rates for all cargoes and all container types from East Asia to East Coast of South America

Exercise with Pacific Fleet Marines completed in Primorye

CMA CGM implements GRR from Asia to Red Sea

Sea Port of Saint-Petersburg handled 6.2 mln t of cargo in 9M’15

ECT adds its container terminals to the InlandLinks network

Fincantieri secures double order from Carnival

Throughput of Taganrog Commercial Seaport up 29% to 1.1 mln t in 9M’15

Brent Crude futures price up 0.22% to $48.72, Light Sweet Crude - up 0.25% to $46.40

Press conference on navigation results of Passenger Port of Saint Petersburg “Marine Façade” to take place on October 22

Baltic Dry Index down to 747 points