News 2016 January 25

115,000dwt bulker docks at Murmansk port (photo)

Products throughput at RPK Vysotsk LUKOIL-II fell 8.6% in 2015 to 11 million tonnes

Rosterminalugol Terminal coal throughput rose 13% in 2015 to 17,46 million tonnes

DNV GL: Oil and gas sector needs to commit to long-term thinking to achieve meaningful cost cuts

Strike could affect Samskip schedules from 1 February

Economic Development Ministry gives thumbs down to draft S2S transshipment regulation

Polysys Additive Technologies’ manufacturing plant in Kizad operational

Gulftainer announces new container service connecting Port Canaveral to Central America and Europe

Zvezdochka Shiyard launches domestically produced 500 kW thrusters

Shipowners and Seafarers' Unions team up to launch new guidance on the elimination of harassment and bullying

RZD names Vladimir Pyastolov as new chief of North Caucasus Railway

Damen Shipyards Sharjah delivers eight newbuilds in 2015

Navibulgar Services becomes a representative of FURUNO DK

Gippsland Ports orders Damen TSHD 650

Port of Calais re-opens following migrant activity

Average M-100 fuel oil price on Russia's regional markets close last week lower, at RUB 3,412 pmt

Mitsubishi hybrid turbochargers for marine diesel engines received the Energy Conserving Machinery Award from The Japan Machinery Federation

ABS realigns Americas Division

Icebreakers escorted recently 28 merchant ships in the eastern part of the Gulf of Finland

MISC delivers new auxiliary vessel to the Royal Malaysian Navy

Russian Maritime Register of Shipping authorised to survey ships for compliance with Polar Code

Wärtsilä and Cavotec to develop world’s first marine wireless charging and mooring concept

New DNV GL notations for water-lubricated tail shafts offers unlimited intervals between shaft withdrawals

USCG escorts disabled RI fishing vessel ahead of winter storm

Seaborne, inland waterways passenger traffic in Ukraine fell 3.3% in 2015 to 0,6 million people

Brent Crude, Light Sweet futures prices rebound from losses, to $33.35 and $32.61, respectivly

RZD promotes Vladimir Goloskokov to Oktyabrskaya Railway chief

Baltic Dry Index slips to 354 points

FRS acquires clipper, plans North American expansion