News 2016 January 15

Broekman is expanding warehousing capacity on the Maasvlakte

Port of Rotterdam cargo volumes rose 4.9% in 2015 to more than 466 million tonnes

Hapag-Lloyd implements General Rate Increase from Indian Subcontinent (ISC) and Middle East to USA and Canada

MOL launches new China/West Coast India service (CIS)

Tanker Neftyanik-1 of LUKOIL-Bulgaria Bunker to undergo class repairs by March 2016

NYK selects Rotterdam as port of call for breakbulk cargo on its Europe-Far East service

Diana Shipping announces time charter contract for m/v Nirefs with Transgrain

Navig8 Expedite joins the LR8 Pool

AMELS 242 emerges in Vlissingen

Latest Azipod XO podded propulsion recently departed from ABB factory in Helsinki (photo)

Port of Long Beach moves over 7 mln TEUs in 2015

Rolls-Royce contracted to supply propulsion systems for Watercats ordered by Royal Oman Police

Throughput of Kavkaz up 41.3% to 30.8 mln t in 2015

Gazprom announces IFRS results for 9 months of 2015

Wärtsilä design chosen to enable environmentally sustainable krill fishing in Antarctic waters

ICTSI’s Matadi terminal to open for business in mid-2016

248 vessels escorted by icebreakers to/from Azov Sea ports during current ice navigation season (photo)

Vroon takes delivery of VOS Primrose

Statoil announces acquisition of minority shareholding in Lundin Petroleum

Wan Hai Lines to launch China – India Service II (CI2) jointly with IAL, PIL and MOL

Valdo Kalm to become the head of Port of Tallinn

Icebreakers escorted 10 vessels in the Gulf of Finland over the day-long period

PSA International posts volume of 64.10 million TEUs in 2015

Throughput of port Taganrog up 2.5% to 2.93 mln t in 2015

Arctic oceanographic expedition organized at the Northern Fleet (photo)

Brent Crude futures price down 2.29% to $30.29, Light Sweet Crude - down 3.09% $30.24

Incat Crowther kicks off construction of additional 34m catamaran passenger ferries for Auckland

Russian Navy oceanographic research ship Admiral Vladimirsky to reach the Antarctic in several days (photo)

Baltic Dry Index down to 383 points

IFO-380 HS price at port St. Petersburg drops as low as $40 pmt (graph)