News 2016 May 13

Vard signs a Letter of Intent with an undisclosed international cruise company for the design and construction of two small-sized cruise vessels

Wilh. Wilhelmsen Holding ASA posts results for first quarter 2016

CMA CGM implements GRR from all Asian ports to Mediterranean trades

APM Terminals signs crane extension contract for Pier 400 Los Angeles

VARD signs LOI for design and construction of two cruise ships

Passenger Port of Saint Petersburg welcomes cruise ship AIDAvita

Østensjø Rederi changes ship`s register for five of its offshore vessels

BF Tanker signs Technical Readiness Certificate for tanker Balt Flot 11 built by Krasnoye Sormovo shipyard (photo)

Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc. launches the OCEANUS for Suderman & Young Towing Company

Further implementation of Rail Baltica Project to be discussed in June

Eight new straddles arrive in Tilbury

Tallink Grupp carried 2 mln passengers in QI’2016, up 8.9%, y-o-y

CMA CGM implements GRR from all Asian origins to North Europe destinations

Financing of activities under Governmental Plan for development of Russia’s IWW will be defined in HI’2016

EQT Infrastructure II to acquire US provider of marine chassis to the shipping industry

Work begins on Galloper Wind Farm project at the Port of Lowestoft

RF Government nominates candidates to Russian Railways’ BoD and Audit Commission

Port of Virginia container throughput up 2.4% to 215,000 TEUs in April of 2016

Epic Gas takes delivery of 11,000cbm newbuilding

BMT secures contract with Endeavor Energy for Côte d’Ivoire LNG import terminal

KT Maritime wins contract for offshore operations for ConocoPhilips in Australia

Cruise ship Nippon Maru to arrive in Vladivostok on May 15, 2016

Damen signs long-term maintenance contract with Dutch and Swedish Navies

Eneco, Shell and Van Oord take part in Dutch offshore windfarms tender

Hanjin, Hapag-Lloyd, “K”Line, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Nippon Yusen Kaisha and Yang Ming to create a new partnership “THE Alliance”

Passenger Port of Saint Petersburg welcomed 4 cruise ships between May 2nd and 8th

Brent Crude futures price down 0.77% to $47.71, Light Sweet Crude – down 1.07% to $46.20

Throughput of port Odessa (Ukraine) down 2% to 8.36 mln t in Jan-Apr'16

Baltic Dry Index is flat at 579 points