News 2018 September 11

Throughput of Kaliningrad port to grow by 8% to 15 million tonnes this year

ESPO asks to recognise the cross-border dimension of EU ports and to strengthen the maritime connectivity in CEF II

Throughput of port Riga (Latvia) in 8M’18 climbed by 5.4% Y-o-Y to 23.9 million tonnes

Gazprom Neft and Mitsubishi Corporation to assess opportunities for cooperating in developing Sakhalin offshore fields

Throughput of Russian seaports in 8M’18 grew by 3.4% Y-o-Y to 535.6 million tonnes (detalization)

Enterprise expands LPG capacity at Houston Ship Channel Terminal

Throughput of port Azov grew by 39% to 8.68 million tonnes in 8M’2018

Shipbuilding Complex Zvezda and Samsung Heavy Industries to establish a joint venture for building of shuttle tankers

Fuel oil prices are flat in the Far East ports of Russia (graph)

Sovcomflot orders next generation large-capacity tankers from Zvezda with financing from VEB

Offshore Dialogue at SMM: Nature and her treasures

Sovcomflot and ABB open unique training centre at Admiral Nevelskoy Maritime State University

Morinformsystem-Agat Concern and KOMERI will establish a center to produce equipment for marine facilities

Vladimir Putin participated in the ceremony of the largest dry dock construction start in Russia

Vostochny Port puts into operation new railcar dumper at its coal terminal’s Phase 3

Austal delivers high speed catamaran to VS Grand Ferries

Rolls-Royce and MOL verify enhanced navigational safety with Intelligent Awareness tests aboard passenger ferry

Capacity of Russian seaports to gain 354 million tonnes by 2024

Nippon Paint introduces world’s first biocide free SPC antifouling

Brent Crude futures price up 0.26% to $77.57, Light Sweet Crude – up 0.1% to $67.61

Throughput of Russia’s Far East ports forecasted to grow by 3.5% to 200 million tonnes this year

NOVATEK signed agreement on implementing a project for construction of LNG transshipment complex in Kamchatka