News 2017 March 3

Increase in the quantity of exports transported to the US through Incheon Port

A training course on port state control procedures and latest revisions to relevant IMO conventions held in Oman

Largest iron ore shipment departs Port Hedland

Petrobaltic rig docked on board a heavy lift vessel

Achema books Klaipėda LNG terminal capacities for the rest of the gas year

Throughput of Rostov-on-Don port up 4.5% to 1.38 mln t in Jan-Feb'17

Conference “Containers and container transportation. Problems, solutions, perspectives" to be held on 21-22 March

Throughput of Ukraine's Port of Odessa up 9.6% to 4.15 mln t in Jan-Feb'17

Tallink Grupp transported 654,048 passengers in February 2017, up 3.4% Y-o-Y

Throughput of Ukraine’s seaports in Jan-Feb'17 is flat Y-o-Y at 19.84 mlnt

ZIM reports Q4 and Annual Results for 2016

Wind farm service vessel delivered from Ulstein Verft to Bernhard Schulte Offshore and ICBC Leasing

12th Arctic Passion Seminar was held in Helsinki

USC says all its shipyards are ready to install ballast water treatment systems on any vessels (photo)

Krasnoye Sormovo will lay down cruise liner for Vodohod on 24 March 2017

Port of Long Beach awarded zero-emissions equipment grant

General Dynamics NASSCO delivers final ECO Class tanker constructed for SEA-Vista LLC

ABS advances safety in electric hybrid innovation

MHI-MME achieved 50 units of retrofit propeller deliveries since 2013

Throughput of Vostochny Port JSC in Jan-Feb'17 grew by 10%, year-on-year, to 3.5 mln t

CMA CGM announces FAK rates from Baltic and North Europe to US East Coast and US Gulf

DESMI has sold more than 50 ballast water treatment systems (photo)

ClassNK receives EU MRV accreditation from UKAS

Three new gantry cranes manufactured for Crowley’s Puerto Rico Terminal

Brent Crude futures price up 0.11% to $55.14, Light Sweet Crude – up 0.11% to $52.67

Baltic Dry Index up to 904 points

Maritime Union of Australia signs work arrangement with INPEX on the $34 billion dollar Ichthys LNG project

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

COSCO secures contract for three container vessels

VARD secures contract for the construction of one pelagic trawler for Research Fishing Company