2021 August 17

https://thebarentsobserver.com

Big oil, gas and coal making headway on Russian Arctic coast

The shipments to the area culminated after sea-ice in the shallow bay melted this July, and up to 50 ships have lately simultaneously amassed in the waters near the Utrenny port terminal...

2021 August 16

http://www.xinhuanet.com

Direct freight route links China's Jinzhou port with Russia's Vostochny

A direct maritime shipping route has been launched linking China's Jinzhou port with Vostochny in Russia...

2021 August 16

https://www.nasdaq.com

Russia's ESPO crude premiums fall to 4-month low on weak China demand

Russia's Surgutneftegaz sold three cargoes of ESPO crude at the lowest premiums in four months as demand from Chinese independent refiners remained weak...

2021 August 16

https://gcaptain.com

Russia Opens Criminal Investigation Over Black Sea Tanker Spill

Russian investigators were conducting searches at the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) after last Saturday’s oil spill near the Black Sea port of Novorossiisk...

2021 August 13

https://www.reuters.com

Gazprom cancels Aug condensate exports after Urengoy fire, sources say

Russia’s Gazprom has cancelled gas condensate exports this month, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, less than a week after a fire at its processing plant in Urengoy curbed gas exports via the Yamal-Europe pipeline...

2021 August 13

https://www.ipcc.ch

Climate change widespread, rapid, and intensifying – IPCC

Many of the changes observed in the climate are unprecedented in thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of years, and some of the changes already set in motion—such as continued sea level rise—are irreversible over hundreds to thousands of years...

2021 August 13

https://shippingwatch.com

Dry bulk vessel snaps in two after grounding in Japan

A Panamanian-registered dry bulk vessel loaded with wood chips has snapped in two after grounding in a port in Northern Japan...

2021 August 12

https://www.maritime-executive.com

Russian Blame Game as Oil Spill Spreads in the Black Sea

An oil spill at a Russian marine oil terminal on the eastern side of the Black Sea has grown from reports of a minor spill to a controversy with scientist saying it is much larger and reaches much further than announced by the authorities...

2021 August 12

https://www.reuters.com

Brexit has 'significantly altered' Irish-British freight traffic, report finds

The introduction of checks on some goods since neighbouring Britain left the EU’s trading orbit on Dec. 31 cut imports from Britain by 35% in the first five months of 2021 while the number of shipping routes to mainland Europe more than doubled...

2021 August 12

https://www.maritime-executive.com

China and South Korea Both Claim Leadership in Shipbuilding

Chinese officials touted the performance of their shipbuilding industry for the first six months of 2021 saying that they had received half of all the orders reported during the period...

2021 August 12

https://www.spglobal.com

COVID-19 infection halts Ningbo container terminal, further straining supply chain

A terminal at China's second-busiest container port, Ningbo Zhoushan, suspended operations Aug. 11 after a port worker tested positive for COVID-19...

2021 August 11

https://splash247.com

CCCC wins contact for Kamchatka LNG complex

...China Communications Construction Company (CCCC), has been appointed as a major contractor in the development of the LNG export terminal at Bechevinskaya Bay on Russia’s eastern Kamchatka Peninsula...