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2023 December 29   21:40

PortNews' top headlines, Dec 25-29

Ports and Hydraulic Engineering

  • Ust-Luga based Lugaport Terminal received first grain laden wagons
  • Global Ports terminals to change operating hours during the New Year holidays
  • Container volume in the Far Eastern basin in the total cargo throughput of Russian seaports increased to 52.8%
  • Energostroy Ryazan Engineering Centre to perform dredging in the basin of oil port Bukhta Sever
  • Upon rehabilitation completion hydraulic engineering structures on the Yenisei granted permission to enter service
  • Completion of hydroelectric complex No.6 of the Volga-Don Canal in the Volgograd region
  • Multipurpose reloading complex put into operation its new gantry crane

Shipping and Logistics

  • Rosatom created a company to build up the cargo base on the Northern Sea Route
  • A free trade agreement with Iran will allow Russian businesses to save RUB 27 billion a year
  • Crude oil shipping on the Northern Sea Route in 2023 hit 1.5 million tonnes mark
  • Russian government set a grain export quota of 24 million tonnes until mid-2024.

Shipbuilding and Ship Repair

  • The Federal Property Management Agency has completed the assessment of shares in Far Eastern Center for Shipbuilding and Ship Repair
  • Vympel Shipyard completed 44 speed boats for State Inspectorate of Russian Emergencies Ministry for Small Crafts
  • MORYE Shipyard delivered second A40-2B series oil boom rescue boat to its customer
  • STLC to place contracts for building passenger ships using funds from the National Welfare Fund two years ahead of schedule
  • The construction of Yakutia based Zhatai Shipyard reaches 64.4% completion milestone
  • First bulk carrier of Project RSD59 outfitted with Russian SRPs was delivered to the customer
  • Baltic Shipyard loaded the wheelhouse onto the nuclear icebreaker Yakutia.
  • Nobel Brothers Shipyard to build a Project 3262 series icebreaking tugboat Narvskaya Zastava for St. Petersburg by 2027
  • Small floating base of Antey Group will undergo repair at the berth of the National Fisheries Resources Agency in Vladivostok.
  • Nordic Engineering conducted second stage of ship model testing of NE060 ice-class tugboat
  • Admiralty Shipyards holds a steel-curring ceremony for the RV Ivan Frolov.
  • About RUB 2.5 billion to be invested in the Kamchatka ship repair cluster

Bunker Market

  • Shortages, alternatives and “black swans”: Results of 2023 of the bunker market
  • How the Houthis raised fuel prices: the Bunker Market Digest
  • The volume of bunker fuel sales by BFC in 2023 exceeded 1 million tonnes