News 2017 January 24

Maersk Line wins Client Relationship Award

Busan Port set its goal to handle 20mln TEU in 2017

Gazprom Neft acquires offshore licence in the Sea of Okhotsk

Bunker market at the port of Novorossiysk, Russia, sees mixed price movements (graph)

ZIM’s upgraded Pacific network to commence April 2017

IMO Secretary-General spoke at the Arctic Frontiers conference about new regulations for ships operating in polar waters

Diana Shipping announces time charter contracts for m/v Los Angeles with SwissMarine and m/v Selina with BG Shipping

Tallink`s Riga-Stockholm route vessels start using Värtahamnen from 24th of January

SCF Group celebrates the 50th anniversary of Novoship

COSCO (Nantong) Shipyard to construct one multipurpose wind farm support unit for Everbright Int’l

Baltic environment in focus of international forum held in Russia

ABS publishes the ABS Guide for LNG Bunkering

Euroseas announces bank loan to finance recent acquisition and sale of containership feeder vessel

Murmansk Region delegation takes part in the Arctic Frontiers 2017

Bunker prices are still high in the Far East ports of Russia (graph)

Vessels of Volga Shipping Company transported 5.2 mln t of cargo in 2016, down 7% Y-o-Y (photo)

Icebreaker Kapitan Dranitsyn and two bulk carriers forced to stay for winter anchorage at Chukotka (photo)

Hapag-Lloyd holds naming ceremony for second 10,500 TEU ship

Overseas Shipholding Group announces agreement with SEC

Georgia Ports box throughput in Dec. 2016 grew 12.3% to 292,172 TEUs

EU Council adopts reform to make port services in Europe more efficient

Throughput of port Kaliningrad down 8% to 11.70 mln t in 2016

DNV GL awarded Shanghai Bluesoul Environmental Technology with AiP in recognition of the technical feasibility of the BlueSulf scrubber system

Throughput of Taganrog Commercial Sea Port down 27% to 1.07 mln t in 2016

MOL teams up with BHP Billiton/DNV GL/Rio Tinto/SDARI/Woodside on joint study of LNG-fueled Capesize bulker

Abu Dhabi Ship Building commissions first floating dock

Dredging at waterways and ports will be discussed at the 4th International Forum of Dredging Companies (photo)

Hapag-Lloyd receives “GoGreen Carrier Certificate” award from DHL GF

Lorris G. Towing takes delivery 80-ft. 2,000 HP inland towboat from Bollinger Shipyards

Brent Crude futures price up 0.54% to $55.53, Light Sweet Crude – up 0.45% to $53.00

Hapag-Lloyd hikes rates for EC North America - EC South America trade

Baltic Dry Index down to 914 points