News 2015 December 17

Hamburg Süd gets ‘Carrier of the Year 2015’ award

BMT announces MD appointments for new partnerships

Nordic American Tankers agrees to extend and refinance its current credit facility up to end 2020

CMA CGM implements new THC in Honduras

WTO members announce the conclusion of the landmark Expansion of the Information Technology Agreement

WWL signs a new agreement with the Maryland Port Administration to serve the Port of Baltimore for another 30 years to 2045

TRIYARDS gets orders worth US$ 45.5 million

ABP Port of Southampton welcomes its latest record-breaker

Ports of Antwerp and Zeebrugge to collaborate more closely for joint marketing and positioning themselves more strongly abroad

Arctech lays the keel for the new icebreaking offshore vessel – the first in a series of four vessels

Latvian Shipping Company IPO planned for first half of 2016

Maersk joins WTO’s Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation

Newest hydrographical vessel put into service of the Leningrad naval base

Bunker prices in the Far East ports go down in late 51st week (graph)

Rosmorport announces tender for maintenance dredging at Volga-Caspian Seaway Canal

Ceremony of hoisting RF flag at icebreaker Murmansk slated for December 25, 2015

NOVATEK and China's Silk Road Fund sign binding definitive agreements

SBM Offshore completes US$800 million financing of FPSO Turritella

Yury Trutnev demands revealing “fictitious construction sites” at Far East port complex (photo)

Hapag-Lloyd implements GRR for Far East Westbound - East Asia to North Europe and Mediterranean

Vopak Vlaardingen expands rail network


SCT Transport AB to start second rail shuttle link with the Katrineholm and Port of Gothenburg

Van Oord names new cutter suction dredger Mangystau

Crowley selects Eagle LNG as marine fuel provider for new LNG-powered ships

Wärtsilä integrated solution and expertise chosen for chemical tankers to be built in Vietnam

Rotterdam introduces additional incentive to bunker LNG

Cargotec's Kalmar awarded large repeat order of fifteen all-electric RTGs for Piraeus Container Terminal in Greece

FESCO Transportation Group recognized as best customs carrier in the Far East

Additional measures of Customs Road Map to improve transport situation at Russian seaports

Brent Crude futures price down 0.57% to $37.25, Light Sweet Crude – down 0.21% to $35.45

Resources assigned for expansion of Nizhnesvirsky hydrosystem to be reallocated for Bagayevsky Russia

Baltic Dry Index down to 471 points