News 2016 February 15

Aibel yard holds steel-cutting for Johan Sverdrup drilling platform

The Freeport of Riga Authority plans to participate in 11 international conferences and trade shows

USCG rescues 6 people in three seperate SAR ops along Oregon and Washington coast

COSCO announces financial results for 2015

Sembcorp Marine posts FY2015 net profit of $384 million

Turkish port operator Yildırım Holding to construct port in Ecuador

Freeport of Riga cargo turnover down by 6.8% to 3.27 million tons in January 2016

Statoil strengthens its position in Uruguay

Philadelphia Gear secures Navy's $1M contract for Arleigh Burke class destroyers

Black Sea Fleet held an exercise on searching and providing assistance to the simulated disabled submarine

Port of Kiel acquires property and warehouse at the Ostuferhafen

Average wholesale prices for М-100 HFO up to RUB 3,552 in RF spot market

APM Terminals Mumbai goes paperless to speed container traffic

Oil production at Prirazlomnoye oilfield up 2.5 times, y-o-y, to over 800,000 t in 2015 (photo)

OSD wins contract to design new RV (IMT2001) for TORI

Leonid Bershansky appointed as the head of FSE Rosgranstroi (photo)

Port Posiet and SDS-Ugol have agreed on transshipment of up to 50,000 t of export coal per month (photo)

HII gets Navy's contract modification for SSN 762 work

Ivan Galchenko appointed Deputy Director General of Rosmorport’s Makhachkala Branch (photo)

ABS centralizes global marine activities

Optimarin to retrofit world’s only purpose built monohull accommodation vessel

Icebreaker escort services in the eastern part of the Gulf of Finland provided to 8 vessels

Pella shipyard delivers tugboat Afalina (Project 16609) built for Russia’s Black Sea Fleet (photo)

Testing of new Panama Canal locks carried out successfully

Brent Crude futures price down 0.13% to $33.32, Light Sweet Crude – down 0.59% to $29.27

DP World plans to invest over $1 bln in India

Yuzhniy seaport Authority increases volume of capital investments

Baltic Dry Index up to 291 points