News 2016 April 8

MOL starts new UA2 service

Throughput of Russian seaports up 4.6% to 167.3 mln t in QI’2016

Damen delivers CSD500 with dredging package to Algerian customer

Royal Caribbean takes delivery of Ovation of the Seas

Vympel Shipyard will build two armament support ships for RF Navy (visualised image)

CMA CGM announces GRR from Asia to Red Sea

Throughput of port HaminaKotka (Finland) up 5.1% to 3.46 mln t in QI’2016

CMA CGM announces GRR from all Asian ports to Mediterranean trades

Bunker prices at port Novorossiysk continue sluggish decline (graph)

Hapag-Lloyd to revise the Terminal Handling Charges in Uruguay

CMA CGM announces GRR from Asia to East Africa

Rosmorport announces tender for maintenance dredging at water area of port Tuapse

Throughput of port Yuzhny (Ukraine) up 11% to 1.54 mln t in March’16

Hapag-Lloyd to revise the Terminal Handling Charge in Argentina

MOL enhances its domestic feeder service between Tokyo and Sendai by adding Hitachi-Naka call

Crude exports via CPC terminal up 8.7% to 11.9 mln t in QI’2016

Icebreaker escort services period is over at Big Port St. Petersburg from April 9, 2016

MSC restructures Amberjack Service in partnership with Maersk

Moscow River Shipping Company takes delivery of RST25 Project tanker Sergei Terskov (photo)

ANL to rise rates from Korea, China, Taiwan and Hong Kong to Australia

AMSEC taps Ryan Norris as Director of SP&BD

Hapag-Lloyd to enhance the Mediterranean Canada Service

The Finished Vehicle Logistics Magazine publishes the throughput statistics of the European car ports for 2015

Brent Crude futures price up 2.76% to $40.53, Light Sweet Crude – up 3.35% to $38.50

KOTUG and Boskalis start joint European harbour towage

Wan Hai holds off Maersk to become the most profitable container line

Van Oord’s new cutter suction dredger christened

Eight new Chinese container vessels to be powered by 32 Wärtsilä generating sets

1,500 t of cargo carried by international transport corridors Primorye-1 and Primorye-2 in QI’2016

Korean company Doorae Shipping slapped with $750,000 fine for illegal waste water discharge

Shipyard Lotus (Astrakhan) lays down forth chemical carrier of Project RST25 for Volgotrans (photo)

Prospects in marine engineering and instrumentation for 2016-2017 discussed at Krylov Center (photo)

Net profit of Transneft under IFRS up 2.4 times to RUB 143.4 bln in 2015

Baltic Dry Index up to 517 points