News 2018 November 1

Tamara Pryamikova enters the office of the head of Murmansk

Maersk takes delivery of fifth serial anchor handler from Kleven Yard

USC has at hand an Arctic cruise ship concept: Alexey Rakhmanov

SIMEC submits planning application for Glenshero Wind Farm £158m scheme to provide clean power for Scottish industry

Ten-month crude exports through Novorossiysk CPC terminal rise 11.2% to nearly 50 million tonnes

Polarcus secures 3D project in West Africa

CMA CGM completes the acquisition of Containerships

ClassNK releases “PrimeShip-GREEN/ProSTA ver.ITTC”

Seanergy partners with leading dry-bulk charterers to install scrubbers on 50% of its capesize fleet

Transport Ministry to optimize access of low ice class vessels to transit the NSR

Damen’s Captains’ Challenge not as easy as it looked

EU shipping industry, fuel suppliers welcome the European Parliament’s support to greem fuel to remove disparities in energy taxation

Port of Novorossiysk sets maximum depths and allowable ship drafts at berths, anchorage locations

Wärtsilä Aquarius UV BWMS set for USCG Type Approval

Bunker prices in Far East ports remain bullish amid shortage

ONEGO Shipyard hosts keel-laying for 3265-series buoy tender for FBI Volgo-Balt

Wärtsilä acquires Spanish underwater services provider Burriel Navarro

MVOT secures FSO time charter contract from Idemitsu Kosan

MHI Vestas and CS Wind/Chin Fong ink tower contract, firms up localisation plans in Taiwan

RZD rail network’s ten-month loaded freight rose 2.7% to 1.73bn tonnes

DP World and NIIF win concession to build Free Trade Warehousing Zone at JNPT Mumbai for $78m

Baleària builds world's first gas engine-powered high-speed catamaran in Spain

Wärtsilä divests its pumps business to Solix Group

Yakutia based water transport enterprises have to beef up their fleet by more than 350 newbuilds until 2035, Lena River Shipping says

Brent and Light Crude futures lost to $74.69 and to $65.06 pb

Fincantieri contracted to build 4th ship for Virgin Voyages

KVH introduces ultra-compact Ku-band marine VSAT antenna

Baltic Dry Index drops 1.52% to 1490 points