Weekly News Review. Published: 30 September 2017

Shipbuilding

At the Onega ship-building and ship-repair plant a new self-propelled barge was launched

Rosmorport reports that on September 22, 2017 in Petrozavodsk at the Onega ship-building and ship-repair plant the ceremony of descent to water of the sludge removal self-propelled barge Trudovaya with a volume of hold of 600 m3 was held. The vessel is constructed by request of Federal State Unitary Enterprise Rosmorport and intended for transportation of soil during dredging works.

"Comet" will receive special glazing

As the press service of ONPP "Technology" reports, a series of sea passenger ships on submerged wings of new generation "Comet-120M" will equip with hi-tech glazing from domestic polycarbonate the Obninsk NPP Tekhnologiya (enters into Rostec State corporation, RT-Himkompozit Holding). In total within the contract "Technology" will deliver to the customer sets for 12 motor ships.

Vladimir Putin said to provide shipyard "Zvezda" with domestic steel sheet

TASS reports with reference to the message of the official site of the Kremlin, that Vladimir Putin charged the government together with Rosneft to handle an issue of ensuring requirement of the ship-building complex Zvezda with the large-format steel sheet produced in Russia. It is said in the statement posted on the Kremlin website.

Hyundai Heavy Industries secures largest newbuild order in five years 

Hyundai Heavy Industries has announced an $800 million contract for 10 very large ore carriers (VLOCs) for Polaris. The deal is Hyundai's largest order in half a decade and will help reverse a long-term trend of weak sales; it brings the firm's total for new orders for 2017 to $5.8 billion, about three times its total last year.

Navigation

China will cooperate with the Arkhangelsk region in shipping

TASS informs that China is interested in cooperation in the Arkhangelsk region in the field of shipping across the Northern Sea Route. The press service of administration of the region following the results of a working meeting of the governor of the region Igor Orlov and the CEO of LLC Kosko Shipping lines (Russia) Tu Demin reports about it.

The Yenisei shipping company was among leaders of the enterprises of water cargo transport

The Yenisei River Steamship Lines (Krasnoyarsk) was among the leading Russian enterprises of inland water cargo transport, AAA score (the highest level of reliability) is assigned to the company, the press service of shipping company on Tuesday reported.

Iran and Kazakhstan created joint shipping company

Iran and Kazakhstan created a joint shipping company for the purpose of development of bilateral trade, reports the Iranian news agency Tasnim with reference to the statement of the head of the Iranian shipping company IRISL Mohammad Saidi.

Events

USC signed six agreements on strategic cooperation with foreign companies

At the international exhibition Neva-2017 in St. Petersburg United Shipbuilding Corporation has signed agreements on strategic cooperation with six foreign companies: Palfinger (Austria), Schottel (Germany), Acopafi (Spain), Vulcan Nova (Croatia), MYCOM and Yanmar (Japan).

The sailing vessel of Rosrybolovstvo Krusenstern completed navigation of 2017

The educational sailing vessel of Rosrybolovstvo Krusenstern, having completed the third and final for this year run, arrived to Kaliningrad the port of registry on September 24. In a month the sailing vessel passed more than 3500 miles and visited the European ports of Le Havre (France), Gdynia (Poland), Warnemünde (Germany).

Sea link between Sevastopol and Yalta will be started in 2018

Start of the sea link between Sevastopol and Yalta is planned for spring of 2018, the director of Corporation of development of Sevastopol Oleg Nikolaev reported to journalists and the TASS agency.

In Komsomolsk-on-Amur the All-Russian engineering congress opens

The first All-Russian engineering congress opens on Friday in Komsomolsk-on-Amur. Participants of a two-day forum intend to develop the decisions aimed at the development of the domestic industry of advanced processing, TASS the governor of Khabarovsk Krai Vyacheslav Shport reported.

Navy

The landing ship "Alexander Otrakovsky" entered the Mediterranean Sea

TASS informs that the big landing ship of the Northern Fleet "Alexander Otrakovsky" which is carrying out tasks in a distant ocean zone entered the Mediterranean Sea. As reported in the press service of the fleet, on Monday the crew successfully passed the passage Gibraltar.

The anti-submarine ships "Onega" and "Naryan-Mar" the Federation Councils in the White Sea reflected air attack of the conditional opponent in the doctrine

The anti-submarine striking force of the ships of White Sea naval base of the Northern Fleet as a part of the Onega and Naryan-Mar anti-submarine corvettes carried out educational and fighting tasks of reflection of means of air attack of the conditional opponent during planned actions of combat training on polygons of the fleet in the White Sea.

The museum of the Baltic Fleet is 60 years old!

As the press service of the Western Military District reports, the museum of the Baltic Fleet (BF) celebrated 60-year anniversary. On significant date the staff of the museum was congratulated by the commander of BF vice admiral Alexander Nosatov. It expressed confidence that showrooms will be constantly replenished with the new exhibits reminding not only about historical events of last centuries, but also about modern construction and development of the oldest fleet of Russia. The museum BF Baltiysk was formed by the directive of General staff of Navy of September 25, 1957 with dislocation in the main naval base.

Ports

FAS evaluated competition level in the Russian ports

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) prepared the draft of the certificate report of a condition of the competition in seaports of the Russian Federation for 2015-2017, the Kommersant newspaper reports.

Two floating ship-repair docks will be established in the port of Antwerp

In the port of Antwerp two floating dry docks for repair and service of the port fleet will be established, follows from the message of administration of port. The territory on the island where now the stationary docks constructed 150 years ago are located, will be turned into a park zone.

Thirty ports of Russia will be equipped with the systems specifying GLONASS signal, Dmitry Rogozin reports

Thirty Russian ports will be equipped with the systems specifying GLONASS signal in the nearest future. The Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin reported about it on Monday following the results of a meeting on increase in accuracy of navigation providing consumers of GLONASS system.

Hawaii will double goods turnover of a port complex of the state by 2022

The Ministry of Transport of the State of Hawaii (USA) announced plans almost twice to increase goods turnover of a port complex of the staff due to construction of the new container Kapalama Container Terminal (KCT) terminal in the port of Honolulu, Port Technology International reports.
 

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