The ice-breaking liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier Vladimir Rusanov, jointly owned by Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) and China Cosco Shipping has undertaken its first loading at Yamal LNG in the far north of Russia.

Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) is looking to expand in Arctic shipping with an agreement with the Far East Investment and Export Agency (FEIA) on the development of the Northern Sea Route (NSR).

The first ice-breaking LNG carrier jointly owned by Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) and China Cosco Shipping has been named at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME).

PAO Sovcomflot (SCF Group) has held a naming ceremony for its new built-to-order icebreaking standby vessel, Fedor Ushakov, named after the legendary Russian naval commander Admiral Fedor Ushakov (1745-1817).

Clean technology engineering firm Genoil has teamed up with two Russian institutions to design a low-cost desulphurisation project aimed at meeting the IMO 0.5% global sulphur cap regulation in 2020.

Russian shipping group Sovcomflot remained in the black for the first half of 2017, albeit with a much reduced profits, saying the result showed the resilience of its expanding industrial shipping business despite the “turbulent conditions” seen...

Russia’s shipping group Sovcomflot has called on the Russian government to continue its drive to improve navigational safety measures on the Northern Sea Route (NSR) and for a ban on substandard ships with untrained crew sailing in the...

Allseas is to use three pipelaying vessels, including the world’s largest the Pioneering Spirit, for a contract with Nordstream 2 to lay a natural gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says the country is set to become the world’s largest producer of LNG as the world’s first ice-breaking LNG carrier calls at Sabetta port in Yamal.

A trading unit of top Russian oil producer Rosneft has signed a deal to supply 10 LNG shipments to the Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company this year, according to reports.