News 2016 July 7

Upper Mississippi River reopened

Trade unions, container companies, Port of Rotterdam finalise consultations

Rotterdam to host major shipping industry event of the year, Green Shipping Summit 2016

Throughput of port Ventspils (Latvia) down 25% to 10 mln t in HI’2016

NOVATEK ships first LNG cargo

ClassNK launches mobile app NK-SHIPS for owners and operators

Optimarin completes USCG testing and looks to take ‘significant’ share of global BWT market

Murmansk Commercial Seaport starts handling vessels bound for Dikson and Khatanga (photo)

Maersk Tankers places volume order for Maersk Fluid Technology's "BOB" lube-oil management system

MABUX: World bunker market in wait-and-see mood

U.S. Navy awards General Dynamics $116 million for VPM

EURONAV selects Jotun’s HPS for two of its Suezmax vessels

ABP warns against ‘timid’ Brexit response

Throughput of port Tallinn (Estonia) down 11.3% to 10.7 mln t in HI’2016

Vigor delivers new ATB tug to Harley Marine Services

German shipping company pleads guilty, to pay $1 million for pollution of Great Lakes waters

Far East ports experience severe shortage of IFO-180 (graph)

Xeneta believes Panama Canal extension may be bad news for some container ship carriers

Throughput of Arkhangelsk Sea Commercial Port down 5.8% to 811,000 t in HI’2016

ClassNK appoints TÜV Rheinland Japan’s Global Technology Assessment Center as Certified Laboratory

RF Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov kicks off preparations for SCF Black Sea Tall Ships Regatta 2016 (photo)

DEME's jack-up vessel 'Thor' completes repair at Damen Shiprepair Dukerque

Millionth tonne of oil produced at Gazprom Neft Novoportovskoye Field

Mark I. Fox named as Newport News Shipbuilding VP of customer affairs

DNV GL advises EU on elements needed for wider adoption of LNG as marine fuel in Europe

Brent Crude futures price up 0.47% to $49.03, Light Sweet Crude – up 0.51% to $47.67

Conrad Shipyard contracted to build Damen Stan tugs for Young Brothers

Baltic Dry Index up to 694 points