News 2016 November 1

Russian Railways' network loading up 0.8% to 103.4 mln t in January-October 2016

Pacific Fleet detachment entered the Tanjung Priok port in Indonesia

Arran Community Fund to be created if the island ferry switches to Troon

Fure West tanker bunkered with LNG for the first time since its conversion

Cargotec to start to repurchase own shares

Legislative amendments are needed in Russia to develop LNG bunkering business - opinion

Bunker sales at port Vladivostok in 10M’16 fell almost 3 times to 313,600 t

ICS applauds IMO Road Map for CO2 reduction by international shipping

COSCO Shipping and DEME sign umbrella agreement

Almost half a million cruise passengers spend half a billion in Stockholm in April – October of 2016

Finnish Transport Agency published winter navigation research reports

Expert forecasts the number of LNG powered vessels in the Baltic region to triple totaling 250 by 2019

Switch closes deal with Wartsila to take drives to the world

GC Rieber Shipping chooses NAVTOR for fleet-wide total navigation solution

MOL to implement GRI from Asia to East Coast South America

Finland’s newest icebreaker Polaris is ready to enter service

Port of Oakland terminal OK to expand

Hapag-Lloyd to implement GRI from Eastbound East Asia to US and Canada

Crude exports via CPC terminal up 1.8% to 35.3 mln t in 10M’16

IMO sets 2020 date for ships to comply with LSF oil requirement

Sembcorp Marine and ENGIE join hands to develop Gravifloat

CMA CGM announces GRR from Asia to West Africa

Baltic Fuel Company obtains final permit from Rosmorrechflot for construction of Turukhtanniye Islands terminal in SPb

Fuel oil is still in deficit at the Far East ports (graph)

DryShips announces vessel sales

Brent Crude futures price up 0.91% to $49.05, Light Sweet Crude – up 0.68% to $47.18

LNG сarrier CESI Gladstone delivered for SINOPEC LNG project

RF President signs Federal Law on Amendments to Water Code of Russia

CPC Operations Control Center at Marine Terminal near Novorossiysk resumes functioning after reconstruction

Vladimir Putin launches operations at Filanovsky oil field

Baltic Dry Index up to 857 points