Three people were killed while another three were injured in an explosion on a product tanker in the port of Machatschkala in the Russian republic of Dagestan on Tuesday, June 11.
Polarcus has confirmed that the survey vessel originally named Polarcus Selma will continue to operate with Sovcomflot under a bareboat charter extended by two years.
Russia's Novatek and Sovcomflot have entered into an agreement with China's COSCO Shipping Corporation and Silk Road Fund wherein the parties will jointly develop, finance, and implement year-round logistics arrangements for shipping hydrocarbons from Russia's Arctic zone to the entire Asia-Pacific region.
Sovcomflot and VEB.RF Group have entered into agreements whereby VEB Leasing will finance the construction of three new LNG-fuelled MR tankers.
Russia's Zvezda Shipbuilding Complex has cut the first steel for an Aframax tanker ordered from the company by local operator Rosnefteflot.
China has successfully launched a satellite-laden rocket from a mobile offshore platform for the first time as part of the country's progress towards its goal of becoming a major contender in space exploration within the next decade.
United Shipbuilding Corporation's (USC) Astrakhan Shipyard has laid the keel of a new non-self-propelled cargo pontoon under Project GRPN.
United Shipbuilding Corporation's (USC) Krasnoye Sormovo yard has delivered a newbuild dry cargo carrier to local operator Pola Rise.
Zvezdochka Shipyard has commenced a final series of factory trials of Akademik Alexandrov, the first oceanographic research vessel to be built under Project 20183.
After spending more than 19 months detained in Lake Charles, Louisiana, Captain Vjaceslavs Birzakovs, Master of the oil tanker Ridgebury Alexandra Z, has been acquitted of all charges and is able to return to Russia following his complete acquittal by a jury on May 23.