The regular meeting of the Board of Directors of JSC ”Murmansk Shipping Company” was held. At the meeting were examined planning issues, including a report on the outcome of trade and procurement activities of the company for the 4th quarter 2011. Total expenditure on procurement of the company is reduced during the reporting period in average of 32%.

Icebreaker ”Kapitan Khlebnikov” of Far Eastern Shipping Company left the home port of Vladivostok in February, 1 and followed in the La Perouse Strait.

Concern is willing to sell its non-core asset this year according to news reports. Services for the construction of the fleet is really logical to outsource, say experts: it will make pricing more transparent.

It is not excluded that in the near future Norway will open for the development the shelf divided from Russia. Minister of Petroleum and Energy of Norway Ula Borte SVEs intends to make such a proposal to the government in the spring of 2013 as was said today by the organizers of the international conference ”Arctic Frontiers” held in Norway.

The Russian and Finnish shipbuilders laid the keel in Helsinki for two icebreakers-suppliers, building by order of the Ministry of Transport for use in the Sakhalin oil deposits. Order by the Contractor is a shipyard ”Arktek” / Archtech Helsinki Shipyard Oy / – a joint venture between Russia’s United Shipbuilding Corporation / USC / and STX Finland.

Today ”Hotcha Marine Engineering” has completed sea trials and has given the customer a large freezer trawler ”General Troshev”.

The world’s largest nuclear icebreaker ”50 Years of Victory” is preparing to leave Murmansk towards the Baltic States to work in the Gulf.

There was the launching of the tenth ship, completing a series of universal dry cargo project RSD 44, built for the Volga Shipping.

As part of the modernization of the ”Sea Port St. Petersburg” (JSC ”St. Petersburg MP”), on the piers of the company are delivered two self-propelled crane on pneumatic run Liebherr LHM 600 models capable of transshipping bulk and heavy cargoes of total weight up to 140 tons.

Organizations of inland waterway transport sent to recipients by 20.7% more goods compared with 2010 during navigation period 2011. Total shipments reached 126.6 thousand tons, including domestic traffic – 108.6 thousand tons (+ 23.6%); in foreign traffic – 18.0 million tons (+5.8%).