News 2015 December 14

Bollinger Shipyards taps Brent Blackburn as Director of Engineering

IACS creates a Cyber Panel

Teekay Tankers secures new $900 mln debt facility

Meyer Werft deploys Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform for industry 4.0

Throughput of Arkhangelsk Sea Commercial Port up 8% to 1.5 mln t in 11M’15

CMA CGM implements GRR from all Asian origins to North Europe destinations

Germany’s first newbuild LNG powered seagoing vessel makes maiden voyage

Six pollution hot spots cleaned up in the Baltic Sea

IMO welcomes Paris Agreement

Building starts on Shell LNG bunker vessel

Port of Salalah opens new General Cargo and Liquid Bulk Terminal

Vladivostok Sea Fishing Port increased transshipment of fish by 134.4% to 276,900 t in 11M’15

Average wholesale prices for М-100 HFO down to RUB 5,846 in RF spot market

Murmansk Commercial Seaport doubles environmental allocations to RUB 200 mln in 2015

Vympel Shipyard to lay down 19910-series survey vessel on December 24 (graphics, photo)

Keel laying ceremony of Borei-A-class nuclear submarine Emperor Alexander III to take place in Severodvinsk on December 18

Vyborg Shipyard lays down first serial icebreaking ship for Gazprom Neft

Technip certified in five additional countries to the EDGE standard

Cruise ships’ calls to Russian ports should be simplified, Yury Trutnev says (photo)

Transpetro terminates the contracts for two Liquefied Petroleum Gas carriers

Qatargas delivers the first commissioning LNG cargo to Republic of Poland

Hazza bin Zayed Al Nahyan officially opens the new Abu Dhabi Cruise Terminal in Zayed Port

RF inland water ways’ cargo traffic down 3.7% to 117.8 mln t in 11M’15

ABB to automate more DP World terminals

Brent Crude futures price down 0.31% to $38.17, Light Sweet Crude - down 0.44% to $35.47

Finland's new icebreaker Polaris named at Helsinki Shipyard

Baltic Dry Index down to 522 points