News 2016 September 9

Throughput of port Tallinn (Estonia) down 8.2% to 13.97 mln t in 8M’16

Wärtsilä Sternguard In-Water Serviceable Seal nominated for DPC Innovation Awards 2016

Okskaya Shipyard launches firefighting tugboat of Project TG-17 built for Rosmorrechflot’s Marine Rescue Service (photo)

HELCOM releases new version of Baltic Sea Clean Shipping Guide

Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port to pay RUB 8.9 bln as dividends for HI’2016

Hyundai Heavy Industries receives 2nd AIP from DNV GL for SkyBenchTM

MOL implements General Rate Restoration from North & South East Asia (excluding Japan) to New Zealand

Finland ratifies Convention for the Management of Ballast Water

TransContainer to pay of RUB 3.49 bln as dividends

Moody’s Investor Service upgrades the ratings of DP World Limited’s and Jebel Ali Free Zone

Port of Long Beach CEO Jon Slangerup announces Resignation

Throughput of port Riga (Latvia) down 10.8% to 23.873 mln t in 8M’16

Fitch Ratings affirms Panama Canal's 'A' ratings

Four Baltic Sea ports signed a Memorandum of Understanding and set a common approach for the new on-shore power supply for vessels

MOL again earns listing on Dow Jones Sustainability Indices

Indicative bunker prices go down at the port of Saint-Petersburg (graph)

LR launches unique Polar Code offer at SMM

KOTUG provides salvage assistance to refloat M/V

Global Ports announces its HI’2016 profit of $113.4 mln

Deltamarin introduces DeltaSAFER design for Asian ro-pax ferry market

PERFECt II – Second phase brings additional partners for piston free LNG container vessel

Kaliningrad Railway looks into launching of 40-foot container train from Gdansk to Moscow

Ferryboat Baltijsk to resume operations at Ust-Luga-Baltijsk line in September 2016, ferryboat Ambal to undergo modernization

Russian seaports' eight-month throughput rises 5.7% to 468.5 million tonnes

IMO: BWM Convention to enter into force in 2017

Baltic Dry Index up to 792 points

Brent Crude futures price down 1.50% to $48.70, Light Sweet Crude – down 0.82% to $47.23

Admiral Ushakov State Maritime University enrolment exceeds 600 in 2016 (photo)

Sovcomflot completes USD 1.26 billion of debt financing

CMA CGM implements FAK rates from Asia to Mediterranean

CMA CGM implements FAK rates from Asia to North Africa trades