Italian shipyard Marghera Fincantieri has built a new liner Costa Deliziosa for Costa Cruises Company, reported Transport business. The liner has overcome 8 hours at a speed of 23 knots. An emergency stop was tested: all the engines were switched off at a full speed. Electronics was tested: for 6 hours the liner proceeded using automatic control of generato...
In London, the Brent Crude contract was up by $1.29 on November 30, 2009 to $78.47 per barrel on the ICE Futures exchange. Light Sweet Crude grew by $1.23 to $77.28 on the New York Mercantile Exchange, RBC reports. (Source: Port News)
Baltic Dry (BDI) freight index goes down again after a jump. As per the auction data по BDI fell to the level of 4,000 points as of November 30, 2009. It is worth highlighting the index has reached it maximum of 4661 points on November 19, 2009 after which it started to do down again. It is necessary to mention the index reached its maximum (over 1170...
First stage of shipyard in closed territorial formation (ZATO) Bolshoy Kamen’ (Primorskiy Kray) will be put into operation in 2012. Shipyard construction will be fully completed by 2020 reported press-service of regional administration. It is necessary to remind that in October United Shipbuilding Corporation OJSC and Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine ...
NEPA Projects and Investments is offering shipowners an integrated solution including managing their investments, ownership representation , commercial management, arranging technical management, dry docking supervision, newbuilding and conversion supervision, vessel sale and purchase as well as arranging ship finance. The company, a subsidiary of NEPA Sh...
China Shipping Container Lines Co., Ltd. (CSCL), part of the China Shipping Group (CSG), has chosen Wärtsilä main engines for eight container vessels. The Wärtsilä engines for this order will be built under licence by Doosan Engine, Korea. Wärtsilä, the marine industry's leading ship power system integrator, will supply a pack...
Wilhelmsen Ships Service today announced the official opening in Singapore of one of its largest regional distribution hubs. The 12,000-sq m warehouse and logistics distribution centre, which serves 28 countries in the Asia Pacific, was built at an investment of S$5 million. The establishment of the facility underlines the Republic’s importance to W...
Russia is elected into the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) Council in the most prestigious category (category А), that comprises the countries most interested in maritime navigation (10 seats in the IMO Council),press-service of the RF Ministry of Transport reported. ‘IMO thus once again confirmed significant contribution of Russia into de...
Port of Tallinn is the biggest port authority in Estonia and as far as both cargo and passenger traffic are taken into account, the biggest port on the shores of the Baltic Sea.
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