News 2016 April 12

Murmansk Region welcomes idea of shifting Lukoil’s transshipment facility from Kirkenes to Murmansk

Oil transshipment via storage tanker Umba (Murmansk) nears 1 mln t

Gazpromneft Sakhalin says production at Russia’s new Arctic fields not to begin before 2020

Atomflot looks into extension of Vaygach and Taimyr nuclear icebreakers’ lives

Ingalls Shipbuilding announces executive leadership changes

New icebreaking tugboat Pur built for port Sabetta will arrive in Murmansk in May 2016

Damen DOP dredger cleans up a reservoir in the Andes

Bunker prices go up at the port of Vladivostok (graph)

Dublin Port records 6.8% growth in Q1 of 2016

Throughput of port Yeisk up 14.3% to 848,000 t in QI’2016

Forth Ports opens new warehouse development at Port of Grangemouth

100% minus one share of Kronshtadt Shipyard is now in the authorized capital of USC (photo)

AAWA project introduces the project’s first commercial ship operators

RF Transport Ministry says deadweight of cargo fleet controlled by Russia reached 20.6 mln t in 2015

Dryships announces cancellation of one of the OSRV contracts with Petrobras

MacGregor solutions specified for next-generation cruise ships

Icebreaker escort services period is over at port Ust-Luga from April 12, 2016

Throughput of port Tallinn (Estonia) down 16.3% to 5.26 mln t in QI’2016

MPI Workboats commence contract with Statoil

Maritime transport flying the flag of Russia carried 18.283 mln t of cargo in 2015, up 15.5%, y-o-y

Hapag-Lloyd to increase rates from East Asia (excluding Japan) to Persian Gulf

Throughput of Arkhangelsk Sea Commercial Port up 0.4% to 427,000 in QI’2016

BFC and Rosmorrechflot sign agreement on creation of land plot at Turukhtanniye Islands terminal in Saint-Petersburg

Kalmar organises CargoHack on 8-10 April 2016 in Tampere, Finland

Baltic Dry Index up to 555 points

Brent Crude futures price down 0.07% to $42.80, Light Sweet Crude – down 0.10% to $40.33

BIMCO, Dan Bunkering and Hafnia to host a series of free seminars on managing legal risks in bunkering