News 2016 September 16

Prince Rupert commissions shore-based radar system

FESCO delivers emergency relief consignment for typhoon victims in Primorye

Throughput of port Primorsk up 12% to 43.32 mln t in 8M’16

SSA Marine's Western Stevedoring investigating feasibility for breakbulk and bulk cargo terminal at Port of Prince Rupert

APL expands Trans-Atlantic service coverage with New Atlantic Gulf Express Service

Georgia hosts IMO seminar on national maritime transport policy development

Vyborg Shipyard took part in the International Trade Fair SMM’16

Throughput of port Kaliningrad down 8% to 7.83 mln t in 8M’16

Aker Solutions, Det norske and Subsea 7 form development alliance in Norway

NCSP volumes up 6.3% for 8M 2016 reach 98 mln tons

Union acts in fight for seafarer jobs at Boskalis

Petrofac wins design contract for offshore windfarm

Military seamen of Russia and China practiced defending ships on unsafe roadstead in course of the “Naval interaction 2016” joint exercise

Throughput of port Vysotsk down 4% to 11.18 mln t in 8M’16

Hapag-Lloyd announces FAK rates from Far East Westbound East Asia & Japan to North Europe and Mediterranean

MOL LNG carrier rescues castaways

Throughput of port Ust-Luga up 5% to 60.28 mln t in 8M’16

Christian W. Berg will step down as CEO of Viking Supply Ships

Williams Shipping invests £250,000 in expansion

Commercial Seaport of Makhachkala should be developed comprehensively – Victor Olersky (Photo)

Alfa Laval PureSOx to sail the Great Lakes on a Canadian cement carrier

FESCO delivered emergency relief consignment for typhoon victims in Primorye

Throughput of Big Port St. Petersburg down 8% to 31.83 mln t in 8M’16

AMSEC LLC wins Navy's contract

Maersk Line rises rates from Mediterranean and Black Sea to Middle East & Indian Subcontinent (India, Bangladesh, Pakistan & Sri Lanka)

Eastern Shipbuilding selected to build USCG offshore patrol cutters

BMT partners with Maersk for new online vessel inspection tool

Shipyard Pella (Leningrad region) lays down Akademik Ageyev, oceanographic research ship of Project 16450 (photo)

Transport Ministry suggests amending legislation on cargo transshipment beyond territorial sea of Russia

HII awarded $19.1 million LX(R) design acceleration contract

Brent Crude futures price down 0.71% to $46.26, Light Sweet Crude – down 0.73% to $43.59

Port of Long Beach container volumes down 8.9 percent to 641,029 TEU in August 2016

Baltic Dry Index up to 764 points

Port of Los Angeles issues $35.2 million in ‘green’ bonds

ICTSI Subic services largest ship to call at Subic port