News 2016 July 21

Indicative bunker prices are flat at the port of Saint-Petersburg (graph)

Reylaver christens the new tug from Damen

Fratelli Neri S.p.A. orders three vessels from Damen

Two Damen ASD Tugs 2810 sail to Argentina

Azipod units installed onto the 25MW icebreaker Victor Chernomyrdin built at Baltiysky Zavod shipyard

Metrans puts first hybrid shunting locomotive into operation at the Port of Hamburg

General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard gets $42,1 mod to LSD-51 contract

Text of 1978 STCW Convention is available in Russian (document)

Drydocks World conforms to Factory Production Control (FPC) under EU Regulation

The market is waiting for more clarity of bunker prices trend, expert says

Tanker Lilaste of LUKOIL-BUNKER's Murmansk branch has undergone preventive inspection

Toll Global Forwarding enters into Omani market with Seagull Logistics Services LLC

LLC “Marine Recruiting Agency” prepared specialists for port of Kazakhstan

OOCL takes further step forward in GHG reporting

Port of Antwerp signs collaboration agreement with port of Bandar Abbas in Iran

Bunker prices changed in the Far East ports (graph)

Far East Development Corporation received 100 applications from potential residents of Free Port of Vladivostok for RUB 167 bln

Cosco Shipyard in Guangdong holds naming ceremonies for two of Vroon’s newbuilding vessels

Head of Rosmorrechflot Viktor Olersky visited the Astrakhan Branch of FSUE “Rosmorport”

Austal announces completion of LCS 6 full ship shock trials

Technip awarded MSA for SCT&E LNG’s Monkey Island project in Louisiana, USA

Brent Crude futures price up 0.66% to $47.48, Light Sweet Crude – up 0.61% to $46.03

Latvian Shipping Company announces application to scholarship competition for future seafarers

CMA CGM implements GRR from Asia to Red Sea

Baltic Dry Index down to 736 points