News 2016 November 16

Swedish Dockworkers’ Union to impose a ban on new recruitment and overtime at APM Terminals in Gothenburg

Ninety-seven Crowley vessels win awards for environmental safety

WMU delivered EPDC on Maritime Safety to GEFO

TTS posts Q3 2016 results

Coast Guard repatriates 62 migrants

NCSP Group volumes for 10M 2016 up 5.7% to 122.6 mln tons

Hapag-Lloyd rises FAK rates from North Continent and Mediterranean to East Asia

Port of Oakland export volume up 10 percent in October 2016

Regular meeting of Baltic Sea ports representatives held in Helsinki

First Maritime Incubator in Poland will be established in Gdansk

Klaipedos Nafta and Kongsberg Maritime sign MoU on cooperation and concentration of expertise in the field of LNG terminals

Marine Rescue Service of Rosmorrechflot takes delivery of lead firefighting tugboat of Project TG-17 (photo)

Replacement of offshore oil transshipment facilities with coastal ones meets Arctic environmental standards (photo)

Russia will bring up three proposals for IMO draft development strategy at IMO Council meeting in December (photo)

Divers of the Caspian flotilla master new equipment

Bunker prices continue going down at port Novorossiysk (graph)

Gleb Turichin appointed as Acting Rector of Saint Petersburg State Marine Technical University (photo)

Russia initiates IMO Assembly resolution to encourage more states ratify MARPOL Annex VI

Industry specialists to convene in London at LPG Europe Summit 2017, March 1-2

Island Offshore to adress the long term financing structure of the Group

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

Damen Shiprepair Harlingen receives order for freight catamaran conversion

Container throughput of port Hong Kong (China) down 5.9% to 15.9 mln TEUs in 10M’16

Tuco Marine sells two ProZero 15m boats to Norwegian AKVA Group

Multipurpose Reloading Complex (Ust-Luga) invested RUB 1.4 mln in environmental protection in 9M’16

Brent Crude futures price up 0.68% to $47.26, Light Sweet Crude – up 0.59% to $46.09

First tests of unmanned seacraft in Russia to be held in 2018

Baltic Dry Index up to 1,084 points

Port of Long Beach container volumes down 6.2 percent in October 2016

Sembcorp Marine sells its 30% equity interest in COSCO Shipyard Group

Chairman of the International Chamber of Shipping delivers speech at Crew Connect Global Conference

DuPont Clean Technologies simplifies compliance with IMO’s new global sulfur cap