News 2016 July 8

MPI Discovery installation vessel recommences operation at Rampion Offshore Wind Farm

CMA CGM to reshuffle its India Middle East Gulf services to East Africa

Council of the United Kingdom visited the Passenger Port of St. Petersburg

Incat Crowther delivers 62.4-meter monohull CSV for BGOS

ABS Group awarded project certification contract for BKR02 wind farm offshore Germany from DONG Energy

Phase 1 of MSCC Bronka’s access channel and water area is put into operation (map)

Metal Shark secures passenger ferries contract from HNY Ferry Fleet

Caspian Flotilla ship grouping is arriving to the permanent locations after the exercise

NOVATEK’s marketable production totaled 33.76 billion cubic meters of natural gas and 6,327 thousand tons of liquids

First Rolls-Royce MTU gas marine engine successfully completed 3,000 hrs testing

Keppel and Shell to establish 50/50 JV for LNG bunkering business

Cruise ship Monarch makes her inaugural call to Passenger Port of Saint-Petersburg

Construction cost of Crimea Bridge approved at RUB 227.92 bln

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

Georgia Ports Authority gets $44 million to increase rail capacity at Port of Savannah

Russian Railways and Italian State Railways sign memorandum on cooperation

Scorpio Tankers announces a commitment for a new loan facility

DNV GL and South Korean yards' standardization efforts deliver first results

Sergei Larionov elected as Director General of Lena United River Shipping Company (photo)

Keppel Offshore & Marine secures marine projects worth S$120 million

Throughput of Neva-Metal (Saint-Petersburg) in HI’2016 is flat, year-on-year, at 1.6 mln t

Seaport of Odessa (Ukraine) increased dry cargo transshipment by 6.4% to 10.78 mln t in HI’2016

Brent Crude futures price up 0.71% to $46.73, Light Sweet Crude – up 0.53% to $45.40

AS Tallink Grupp share capital reduction payments

PGI Intelligence says safety concerns over expanded Panama canal could undermine economic advantages

Baltic Dry Index up to 699 points