News 2017 February 7

Rickmers announces completion of sale of vessel and voluntary prepayment of loan facilities

Throughput of Container Terminal Saint-Petersburg up 40% in 2016

Throughput of port Taganrog up 9.6% to 180,900 t in January 2017

CPC accepted one million tons of crude oil from Russia's oil fields in the Caspian Sea

OSM Maritime Group gets new Global Managing Director

Coal exports from Russia up 12.6% to 14.173 mln t in January 2017

CMA CGM announces PSS for reefer cargo from North Europe to Asia, Gulf, Middle East & Indian Subcontinent trades

Russia's crude exports up 6% to 21.937 mln t in January 2017

DWDR starts construction of marine structures and bridge in the Port of Dover

Throughput of port Kavkaz up 19% to 1.326 mln t in January 2017

Bahri adds 37th VLCC (AMJAD) to its multipurpose fleet of 84 vessels

Berth No 2 of Transneft – Kozmino Port handled a 150,000 DWT tanker for the first time after reconstruction (photo)

CMA CGM announces FAK rates from West Med, Black Sea and Adriatic to Far East, Middle East, Red Sea and India

Australia and Fiji work together to fix maritime navigation equipment damaged by Tropical Cyclone Winston

Preparations for assembling of bridge arches begin at Kerch Strait construction site (photo)

Bomin Linde LNG conducts first bunkering of an LNG-fuelled chemical tanker in German port

Optimarin secures further Fincantieri business as order pipeline grows after USCG

Maersk Line and Hamburg Süd enter slot purchase agreement on the East–West trades

GTT receives an order from Samsung Heavy Industries to equip a new floating storage and regasification unit

Port of Helsinki cargo traffic up 22% to 1,050,000 tonnes

Team members from Port of Ipswich and Ipswich Haven Marina joined forces with local community to clean up waterfront area

Keppel delivers FPSO P-66 for Brazil

DP World reports 3.2% volume growth in 2016 and 6.0% volume growth in 4Q2016

Bunker prices are flat at the Far East ports of Russia (graph)

Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard to lay down the third serial mine-sweeper for RF Navy in the end of QI’17 (photo)

NIBULON shipbuilding and repair yard continues reconstruction and modernization

BAE Systems San Diego shipyard gets $26,6M contract from Navy

Brent Crude futures price up 0.22% to $55.84, Light Sweet Crude – up 0.21% to $53.12

Throughput of Klaipeda port (Lithuania) declines 0.1% to 3.4 mln t in January 2017

Baltic Dry Index down to 735 points