News 2016 April 5

LUKOIL posts 2015 IFRS net profit of RUB 291.1 bln, down 26.4%, year-on-year

Peak of heavy fuel oil deficit is over at the port of Vladivostok (graph)

Throughput of Rostov-on-Don port up 24% to 2.29 mln t in Jan-March'16

EUROGATE increases net operating profit by over 13 percent

Deltamarin designs and supports construction of Stena ferry to be built in China

Stena signs contract for four new RoPax ferries

MAN Diesel & Turbo delivers world’s first IMO-certified two-stroke engine with Tier III NOx control

Facilities of Transneft Ust-Luga Port and BPS-2 were transferred to the area of responsibility of Transneft Baltic

BMT Isis becomes BMT Cadence

Throughput of port Azov up 27.2% to 1.361 mln t in Jan-March'16

New Director to deliver continued success at the Port of Southampton

Transneft-Logistics, LLC as part of ESPO (Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean) project transported 19.5 million tons of oil

Hapag-Lloyd to increase rates from Indian Subcontinent (ISC) and Middle East to USA and Canada

Throughput of Neva-Metal (Saint-Petersburg) in Jan-March'16 is flat, year-on-year, at 822,000 t

RF Transport Ministry issues draft compulsory regulations for Big Port St. Petersburg

Wärtsilä Ship Design chosen for offshore maintenance vessel

RF Transport Ministry published draft revision of Federal Targeted Programme “Development of Russia’s Transport System” in 2010 - 2020

Wilhelmsen Ships Service warns SOLAS regulation alone isn’t enough when it comes to gas detection

Damen DOP dredge pump used in hazardous project

FSUE Rosmorport sums up outcomes of its operations in 2015 and outlines prospective plans for 2016

KNUD E. HANSEN represents a number of pioneering container feeder vessel designs

Ingalls Shipbuilding christens guided missile destroyer Ralph Johnson

Van Oord announces new CFO

FESCO completed winter navigation in the Tatar Strait and at Aniva Bay

Boiky corvette engaged all assigned targets at the Sea Cup – 2016 contest

Fugro completes offshore works for EOWDC at Aberdeen Bay

Laky Verf shipyard (Leningrad Region) launches 20th boat of Project 14М (photo)

NCSP Group’s net loss for 2015 down almost 5 times to $83.4 mln

Brent Crude futures price down 0.24% to $37.60, Light Sweet Crude – down 0.45% to $35.54

Pavel Ilichev is appointed Executive Vice President for Strategy and Finance at the GEFCO Group (photo)

Throughput of Port Vysotsky LLC up 27.1% to 1.40 mln t in Jan-March'16

Baltic Dry Index up to 471 points