News 2016 April 19

MARAD awarded $ 4.9m in grants to small U.S. shipyards

Humber River Basin’s migratory fish to benefit from Greenport Hull funding

Throughput of port Ust-Luga up 4% to 22.33 mln t in QI’2016

Seventy Seven Energy enters into Restructuring Support Agreement

CMA CGM announces GRR from Asia to Red Sea

Land and coastal troops as well as naval landing forces of the Northern Fleet getting prepared for joint tactic exercise

Automotive sector's major logistics companies visiting Port of Gdansk

CMA CGM announces GRR from the Middle East to West Africa

Throughput of port Vysotsk down 3% to 3.86 mln t in QI’2016

NTSB set to resume search for El Faro Data Recorder

Organizing Committee of SCF Black Sea Tall Ships Regatta 2016 held its second meeting in Sochi

CMA CGM announces Intermediate Rate Restoration from Asia to Red Sea

OOCL announces changes rotation on its Atlantic Express 2 (AX2) and Pacific Atlantic 1 (PA1) services

ZIM to enhance its Asia to US East Coast and Gulf Services

Throughput of Big Port St. Petersburg down 8% to 11.91 mln t in QI’2016

Bunker prices continue going up at the port of Vladivostok (graph)

Port of New York and New Jersey reduces charge for containers

Loading of first oil batch commenced at Lukoil’s Varandei export terminal in the Kola Bay

Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore Shipyard completes repair of two semi-submersible mobile offshore drilling units

Damen Shiprepair Amsterdam completes maintenance programme for fallpipe vessel 'Flintstone'

Dmitry Smirnov appointed as Head of Northern Sea Route Administration (photo)

COSCO launches the seventh livestock carrier for Vroon

Icebreakers Murmansk and Vladivostok to undergo ice trials in the Kara Sea

MOL starts LNG carrier ship management in Hong Kong

Throughput of port Posiet (Primorsky Territory) up 52% to over 1.7 mln t in QI’2016

Brent Crude futures price up 0.77% to $43.26, Light Sweet Crude – up 0.63% to $41.47

Baltic Dry Index up to 659 points