News 2015 December 3

Throughput of Ukraine’s seaports up 1.9% to 131.7 mln t in 10M’15

MABUX: Bunker prices slide to continue if OPEC output target remains unchanged

Bunker prices in the Far East ports are flat in late 49th week (graph)

Yury Matvienko appointed to the position of the Chief Executive Officer of NUTEP container terminal

Bagayevsky hydrosystem to be put into operation in 2019-20, says Russia’s Transport Ministry

European MSC agencies win Best Ocean Carrier awards

Hapag-Lloyd announces blank sailing on Loop 4

EU grants EUR 5 million for the planning of a natural gas pipeline between Finland and Estonia

Problems of Russia’s IWW to be considered at State Council meeting, Vladimir Putin says

Statoil delivers its application for the 23rd licensing round on the Norwegian continental shelf to the Norwegian authorities

Port of Felixstowe Logistics Park receives planning consent

ClassNK releases Guidelines for Floating Offshore Facilities

KAMPO shipyard fulfilled state contract for delivery of multi-functional modular vessels of Project 23370 (photo)

ABS, SDARI sign design development agreement to develop a new generation of feeder container carriers

Damen signs licence agreement with Great Lakes Shipyard to build two Damen Stan Tugs 1907 ICE (photo)

Hapag-Lloyd to suspend the Lisbon eastbound call

Svijazhsk Interregional Multimodal Logistic Center opened in Tatarstan

Telemar Oy Ab acquires Hansabaltic Oy

MAN Diesel & Turbo signs contract with Incat to supply the engines for the high-speed ferry ‘KatExpress 3’

Murmansk Region will become a strategic center of Russian Arctic by 2025, regional Government says (photo)

Teekay LNG-Samsung-GIC sign LNG import terminal project in Bahrain

MOL takes delivery of new LNG carrier BEIDOU STAR

Brent Crude futures price up 0.62% to $43.06, Light Sweet Crude - up 1.26% to $40.45

Shuttle tanker Hanne Knutsen to undergo conversion at Remontowa

Jurong Shipyard enters into a standstill agreement with North Atlantic Drilling

Russian Railways' network loading up 0.1% to 103.1 million tons in November 2015

Pacific Fleet detachment entered the Indian Ocean

Baltic Dry Index down to 590 points