News 2016 December 14

Steel cutting ceremony held in China for a floating transfer dock facility for Zvezda shipbuilding complex

CMA CGM hikes rates for Asia-South America trade

Corvus Energy powers first LNG-battery hybrid cargo ferry in North America

Construction of berthing facilities for Russia’s Northern fleet is completed in Severomorsk (photo)

Bollinger delivers the 21st FRC to USCG

Spanish Gondan Shipyard launches 3rd dual-fuelled tug ever built in Europe

Riga port company “Riga Universal Terminal” launched an extensive reconstruction of berths

NYK partners with KEPCO for joint ownership of LNG vessel

Coal exports via Rosterminalugol terminal hit 17 mln t milestone in 2016 (photo)

Port of Antwerp agrees to boost trade with South Korea

Throughput of Arkhangelsk Sea Commercial Port down 15.6% to 1,267,000 t in 11M’16

Samskip and Rail Cargo Group combine multimodal networks to connect Romania and Sweden

Niron Staal holds keel-laying ceremony of the hull of a passenger ferry

Cargo traffic of NIBULON up six times against the Soviet period results

Stena Line ensures a ferry timetable that is more frequent and more adapted to client needs

Port of Oakland container export volume up 11.5 percent in November 2016

Indicative bunker prices continue going up at Russian port of Saint-Petersburg (graph)

MoU signed between World Maritime University and Peruvian authorities

Seanergy Maritime announces the delivery of the Capesize vessel M/V Knightship

Brent Crude futures price down 1.20% to $55.05, Light Sweet Crude – down 1.26% to $52.31

Germany and Malaysia contribute to E-learning at WMU

Baltic Dry Index down to 1,052 points

CMA CGM launches new CIMEX 2E from Asia to Chennai

Swedish Orient Line to close service Hanko-Rostock

ABS publishes industry’s first guidance for determining routes for subsea pipelines