Synopsis

Shipbuilding

  • Development of shipbuilding in 2013–2030
  • Concepts of inland and mixed navigation cruise ships
  • MT Group presents water treatment systems of PETER TABOADA®
    Marine Technics Company offers highquality marine equipment of leading world manufacturers to the shipyards. PETER Taboada R is one of them. The company produces water treatment systems. Some systems are designed and patented with its own technology. "Marine Technics" is an exclusive representative of the Spanish manufacturer in Russia, CIS and Baltic countries since 2009.

Shipping

  • Sovcomflot opens unique training & engineering centre for projects in the Arctic
    On 22 December, 2012, OAO Sovcomflot held a grand opening ceremony for its new training & engineering centre (TEC) in Saint-Petersburg. This unique centre will provide special training for the company’s captains and senior officers in preparation for navigation in the challenging climatic conditions of the Arctic.
  • Krylov simulators will ensure the safety of navigation
  • DNV and GL to merge
    Hamburg/Oslo, 20. December 2012. An agreement has been signed to merge DNV and GL. The new entity will be called DNV GL Group. It will be one of the world’s leading ship classification societies and risk experts in the oil and gas, renewable energy and power sectors, and among the global top three within management system certification.
  • Refrigerating engineering on "Lira" is ready to freeze large volumes

Ports

  • Signs of anxiety emerging among global business leaders as innovation and competition accelerate
    2013 GE Global Innovation Barometer uncovers “Innovation Vertigo” as leaders grapple to embrace complexity of changed business environment.
  • Damen Shipyards acquires Arno Dunkerque
    In the middle of December 2012, Damen Shipyards Group is the new owner of French shiprepair yard Arno Dunkerque, the only operator for ship repair and conversion in the 3rd largest French port, Dunkirk. The yard will continue its ship repair and conversion services. Furthermore, its personnel and management will remain in place, guaranteeing a seamless transition of the yard into the Damen Shipyards Group, which currently consists of more than 45 shipyards, repair & conversion yards and related companies.
  • Port news

Ocean and shelf exploration

  • Hotchya Marine Engineering has designed a unique research vessel
    Hotchya Marine Engineering is one of the few shipbuilding companies providing design and counseling services, as well as implementing its own projects for various types of sea vessels, including those designed for the oil and gas industry to be possibly operated in the Far North.
  • Gazprom successfully completes world’s first LNG supply via Northern Sea Route
    Dec. 5, 2012 - The Ob River liquefied natural gas carrier chartered by Gazprom Group successfully completed today the world's first LNG supply via the Northern Sea Route.
  • Rosneft and ExxonMobil Expand Strategic Cooperation
    Moscow, Russia – February 13, 2013. Rosneft and ExxonMobil have agreed to expand their cooperation under their 2011 Strategic Cooperation Agreement to include approximately additional 600,000 square kilometers (150 million acres) of exploration acreage in the Russian Arctic, and potential participation by Rosneft (or its affiliate) in the Point Thomson project in Alaska. They have also agreed to conduct a joint study on a potential LNG project in the Russian Far East.

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