News 2014 December 22

CMA CGM connects all continents with Malawi every week

Cargo transportation by Crimea’s water transport up 36% to 595,500 t in Jan-Nov’14

SAMWAF Line to call at Lobito, Angola

IMO Secretary-General welcomes revised shipping industry stance on ballast water

Throughput of Ukraine’s river ports up 25.6% to 4.87 mln t in Jan-Nov’14

Nantong Cosco joins the Ultra8 Pool

Nordic American Tankers signes an agreement for the building of two new suezmax tankers

EPN to take delivery of new Damen tug and dredger

KONTUR SPb LLC licensed for loading/unloading of hazardous cargoes onto/from railway transport

World's first high speed LNG fuelled RoPax ferry to be powered by Wärtsilä

Container throughput of port Hong Kong (China) up 0.7% to 20.43 mln TEUs in Jan-Nov’14

Water transport of Ukraine carried 0.6 mln passengers in Jan-Nov’14 (-13.3%, y-o-y)

Throughput of Chinese ports up 10.5% to 10.23 bln t in Jan-Nov’14

Hapag-Lloyd completes capital increase

Average wholesale prices for М-100 HFO down to RUB 7,583 in RF spot market

Cargo transportation by Ukraine’s water transport up 3.8% to 5.6 mln t in Jan-Oct’14

Nakilat to build 11 vessels for new port project

The world’s largest sugar carrier arrives to Jebel Ali port

Construction of the boiler station has been completed at port Bronka (photo)

PETRONAS, VOPAK and Dialog sign agreement to jointly develop an industrial terminal

Vladimir Putin orders to put missile-carrying submarines Vladimir Monomakh and Alexander Nevsky on combat duty in 2015

IPC, Mitsui , NYK Line & PSA to jointly develop new container terminal in Jakarta

Vladimir Putin says military infrastructure on Arctic islands is to be completed in 2015

Throughput of Russia’s river ports down 12.3% to 151.9 mln t in Jan-Nov’14

Scope of dredging at inland water ways of Russia up 1.5 times to 3.5 mln cbm in 2014

Oil price up to $61.38 in London and up to $57.13 in New York

Baltic Dry Index down to 803 points