News 2016 October 7

AkzoNobel, Van Gansewinkel, Air Liquide, AVR, Enerkem and Port of Rotterdam to build waste-to-chemicals plant

DP World London Gateway creates another new wildlife habitat on the River Thames

ClassNK and the Liberian Registry begin Trials for Electronic Certificates System

Trans-Siberian Main Line celebrates centenary

NOVATEK reports preliminary operating data for nine months 2016

Admiral Grigorovich frigate of the Black Sea Fleet returned to Sevastopol from Greece

Genco Shipping & Trading Limited announces equity purchase agreements

Throughput of Kaliningrad Sea Commercial Port down 2.1% to 2.108 mln t in 9M’16

Throughput of port HaminaKotka (Finland) up 2.4% to 9.89 mln t in 9M’16

ABB’s OCTOPUS marine software improves safety and efficiency of TPI Megaline vessel

Throughput of Arkhangelsk Sea Commercial Port down 12.7% to 1,085,500 t in 9M’16

MOL Group Ship Management Company co-develops onboard labor management software

Rail Baltic Business Network is organizing an international conference “Business Case: Rail Baltic”

Port of Tallinn’s subsidiary TS Laevad Ltd. started operating the ferry traffic between Estonia’s mainland and biggest islands

Rosmorport appoints Aleksandr Bengert as Director of its Murmansk Branch (photo)

PortNews to publish special issue of its journal by Transport Week – 2016

CMA CGM announces new FAK rates from Asia to North Africa

Network of ports and maritime administrations formed to develop world’s first harmonised LNG bunkering standards

CMA CGM announces FAK rates from Asia to Mediterranean

Rosmorport announces tender for maintenance dredging at port Temryuk

ABS awarded Maritime Cybersecurity research contract

Yevgeny Moskvichov elected as Chairman of State Duma’s Transport and Construction Committee (photo)

Brent Crude futures price down 0.06% to $52.48, Light Sweet Crude – down 0.04% to $50.42

Throughput of port Yuzhny (Ukraine) down 16.5% to 29.60 mln t in 9M’16

Indicative bunker prices are flat at the port of Saint-Petersburg (graph)

Baltic Dry Index up to 915 points