News 2016 February 16

Meyer Werft extends management team

C-Explorer 3.11 submersible successfully certified in KSRC

Throughput of port Primorsk down 6% to 5.07 mln t in Jan'16

Managing Director of Navibulgar Services becomes the new Chairman of the Bulgarian Ship Suppliers Association

Throughput of Big Port St. Petersburg down 10% to 3.68 mln t in Jan'16

APM Terminals Pipavav receives domestic IDM Symex Ro/Ro service

Neptune Shipyards BV (Netherlands) sponsors 3rd International Forum of Dredging Companies

FEDF reduces cost of financing for Far East projects from 11% to 5% of p.a.

Harding lands Culzean to maintain offshore run

Ice-class hydrographic vessel of Project 19910 to be laid down in Blagoveshchensk on February 19, 2016 (graphics)

LR and ABS join forces to deliver new industry standard software

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

Taganrog Commercial Seaport increased investments into port infrastructure 2.3 times to RUB 30 mln in 2015

U-Ming announces contracts for two new bulk carriers

Port of Antwerp on trade mission to India

ClassNK releases new PrimeShip-HULL(HCSR) system

Bunker prices at port Vladivostok go up amid fuel deficit (graph)

Dryships announces cancellation of one of the PSV contracts with Petrobras

Icebreaker escort services in the eastern part of the Gulf of Finland provided to 4 vessels

Ocean Rig announces cancellation of two drilling contracts

Keel of Tallink’s new LNG-powered fast ferry Megastar laid at Meyer Turku shipyard

Brent Crude futures price up 4.3% to $34.82, Light Sweet Crude - up 4.47% to $30.76

Silja Europa starts operating on Tallinn-Helsinki route on 13th of March

“Ventspils nafta” terminals welcomed seven pupils on the Shadow Day

Baltic Dry Index up to 295 points

OOCL to not carry prohibited commodities: whale, shark, and dolphin

Statoil acquires 35% working interest in offshore exploration block 15 in the Pelotas basin, Uruguay