News 2016 November 8

ICTSI 9M2016 net income up 4% to US$141.9mln

APL expands Latin America service network with new Colombia Bridge Express Service

Development of Bronka’s railway infrastructure is among priorities of Saint-Petersburg transport and logistics

Royal Wagenborg acquires ice-strengthened multipurpose dry cargo vessel ‘Leuveborg’

Throughput of Klaipeda port (Lithuania) rises 3% to 33.27 mln t in 10M’16

Carisbrooke Shipping and Nova Marine consolidate short sea bulk activities

Another round of major investments at the Port of Gdansk

Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding delivers Kirby ATB

Wärtsilä signs MOU with ENGIE to develop small scale LNG markets

ICS tells UN Climate Conference that IMO needs to agree ambitious CO2 commitments for shipping by 2018

THE Alliance announces plans for its competitive product

Maersk Line, Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles partner to reduce ship air pollution

Port of Oakland container volume up 20 percent in October 2016

Fincantieri’s shipyard in Castellammare di Stabia starts construction of new ship for Princess Cruises

Pilots of the Pacific Fleet practiced landing on the aircraft carrier’s deck at nighttime

Nakilat transitions LNG Mekaines to in-house management

Fuel oil prices go down at the Far East ports (graph)

Baltic Line Finland signs a long term TC-agreement with Prima Shipping for mv Baltic Madonna

Annual capacity of seaports in Saint-Petersburg and Leningrad Region to grow 38% to 395 mln t by 2030

10M’16 cargo traffic on Azov-Don River Basin IWWs climbs 14.4% to 9.23 mln t

APL expands Asia-Middle East service network with new Red Sea Express 2 Service

10M’16 throughput of Rosterminalugol up 3.5%, y-o-y, to 14.85 mln t

Brent Crude futures price up 0.28% to $46.28, Light Sweet Crude – up 0.02% to $44.90

Baltic Dry Index up to 870 points

IBIA says global sulphur cap could create bunker market ‘winners and losers’