News 2016 March 16

BW appoints Christian Bonfils to lead newly established “BW Dry Cargo”

Kalmar completes the cooperation negotiations with its personnel and reorganises its operations in Tampere, Finland

Carisbrooke Shipping selects Marlink VSAT

COSCO Corporation secures contract for one self - elevating workover unit

Yantar Shipyard will lay the keel of oceanographic research ship of Project 02670 on March 19, 2016 (graphics)

Murmansk Region Governor says fishing industry requires adequate state regulation and stimulation (photo)

Scientific reasearch vessel AKKY enters service (photo)

Vakaru Laivu Remontas equips five large ships of Dutch company Spliethoff with scrubbers

Ukrainian Seaports Authority signed Memorandum on cooperation with Bulgarian Ports Infrastructure Company

Indicative bunker prices go up at the port of Saint-Petersburg (graph)

ABB to power new Crystal Cruises ‘exclusive class’ ships

FSUE Rosmorport rejects criticism in respect of project on reconstruction of berths at Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky

Container Terminal Saint-Petersburg tripled allocations for corporate social, environmental and charity programs in 2015

MAN Diesel & Turbo’s G50ME-C9 engine successfully passes TAT

Vladimir Monomakh underwater cruiser returned to its base after performing assigned tasks in the Barenta Sea

Icebreaker escort services in the eastern part of the Gulf of Finland provided to 7 vessels

Vard to build four small-sized luxury cruise vessels for PONANT

Media-Group PortNews launches English version of its catalog of companies IMPORTANT

Brent Crude futures price up 0.93% to $39.10, Light Sweet Crude - up 1.35% to $36.83

First residents of Free Port of Vladivostok to invest RUB 1.334 bln into economic development of Russia’s Far East (photo)

Viking Supply Ships develops the first Polar Code Course

CKYHE Alliance to reorganize Europe service network

IAA PortNews launches English version of Companies Catalogue on portnews.ru

Baltic Dry Index up to 396 points

NOVATEK and China's Silk Road Fund conclude selling 9.9% stake in Yamal LNG

Container throughput of port Hong Kong (China) down 12.5% to 2.86 mln TEUs