News 2017 February 1

Neste sells Pietarsaari terminal to Swedish company Wibax Ab

Throughput of Port Vysotsky LLC up 30.9% to 520,430 t in January 2017

Baltic Workboats delivered second 20m pilot boat to Denmark

Subsea 7 completes fleet investment programme

Kari Kosonen is the new CEO of Finnpilot

Crude exports via CPC terminal up 6.8% to 4.17 mln t in January 2017

Sub-Committee on Human Element, Training and Watchkeeping is meeting at IMO Headquarters on 30 January-3 February

d’Amico International announces the sale of the two vessels

Rosmorport appoints Gennady Khripunov as Deputy Director for Navigation Safety of its Astrakhan Basin Branch (photo)

Sea Port of Saint-Petersburg’s investments in modernization of the port infrastructure increased by 2.4 times

Sea Port of Saint-Petersburg launches first regular container service

Posidonia Sea Tourism Forum 2017 probes growth prospects (photo)

Bunker sales at port Vladivostok in January 2017 fell by 4% to 35,800 t

Excelerate to install second FSRU in Port Qasim Pakistan

Russian Railways' network loading up 6.7% to 101.1 mln t in January'17

Australian Maritime Systems gets contract to design and install modern marine traffic system in Port Hedland

European Parliament calls for rapid action to protect the region (photo)

Arctic 100 Expedition postponed to 2018

DOF's subsidiary Norskan Offshore Ltda gets new contracts in Brazil

Klaipėda LNG terminal performed two LNG export operations in January

Wind shelter for coal wagons put into operation at Vostochny Port (photo)

The third container terminal at the Port of Algeciras goes out to public international tender

Brent Crude futures price down 0.27% to $55.43, Light Sweet Crude – down 0.17% to $52.72

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, MME and Kobe Diesel concluded an absorption-split agreement for integration of marine diesel engine businesses

Baltic countries endorse their commitment to Rail Baltica

Royal IHC launches DEME's LNG-powered TSHD Scheldt River

Indicative bunker prices are slightly down at the port of Saint-Petersburg, Russia (graph)

Baltic Dry Index down to 800 points