News 2017 February 8

Russian President endorses amendments into MSC in the part of escorting warships in the Northern Sea Route

Asuka II honored as Cruise Ship of the Year for 25th consecutive year

DOF adds the vessels Olympic Commander and Olympic Hera to its fleet

M Pallonji Logistics chose Baumarine for their new kamsarmax

Royal IHC successfully upgrades PETRUS PLANCIUS for Jan De Nul

Naming ceremony for two SIBUR LPG carriers intended for Ust-Luga port held in S. Korea (photo)

Boskalis - Van Oord joint venture awarded dredging contract for Santos port, Brazil

Severnaya Verf head steps down, USC Board to tap new CEO

Hapag-Lloyd announces GRI from East Asia to EC of South America

Damen Shipyards Group hosts Industry Briefings in Australia

Rosmorport to dredge 152,000 cbm at Big Port St. Petersburg and 80,000 cbm in Ust-Luga this year

Rosneft conducts a geochemical engineering and geophysical surveys in the Eastern Arctic

Freeport of Riga posts financial results for 2016

Ulstein, SeaOwls launch next gen jack-up solution for offshore wind

Norwegian Cruise Line extends sailings to Cuba through December 2017

Port of Antwerp opens new training centre in India

Torvald Klaveness selects ABB’s OCTOPUS marine software to help comply with environmental regulations

PM-56 floating workshop of RF Navy’s Black Sea Fleet returned to Sevastopol

Damen Shipyards Group hosts industry briefings in Australia

FESCO launches high-speed container trains between Vladivostok and Moscow under Trans-Siberian in Seven Days project

Qatar Petroleum, Total, Mitsubishi, ExxonMobil, and Höegh LNG form consortium to advance an LNG import project in Pakistan

Throughput of Arkhangelsk Sea Commercial Port down 48% to 63,200 t in January 2017

Brent Crude futures price down 0.47% to $54.79, Light Sweet Crude – down 0.42% to $51.75

Throughput of port HaminaKotka (Finland) up 5.4% to 1.16 mln t in January 2017

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

Baltic Dry Index down to 714 points