News 2017 April 10

Damen and Keppel agree on the acquisition of Keppel Verolme

Victoria International Container Terminal wins Smart Infrastructure Project of the Year

CMA CGM improves service from Canada to West Africa

Port of Brisbane's cruise ship terminal plan steams ahead

VSC opens a direct service from ports in Vietnam, China and Korea

IGU releases 2017 World LNG Report

RS will participate in TransRussia-2017

ABB’s Marine Academy gains certification from DNV GL

Throughput of port HaminaKotka (Finland) down 0.2% to 3.45 in QI’2017

Cargo traffic at Latvia's Port of Liepaja climbed by 13.1% to 1,634,200 t in Jan-March'17

Life of Vaigach icebreaker’s reactor plant extended to 200,000 hours (photo)

Throughput of Arkhangelsk Sea Commercial Port down 45.3% to 233,500 t in Jan-March'17

Throughput of Ukraine’s seaports in Jan-March'17 climbed by 2.5% Y-o-Y to 32.71 mlnt

Navigation in Saint-Petersburg opens on Bolshaya and Malaya Neva rivers from April 10

Sinotrans becomes a wholly - owned subsidiary of China Merchants

Average wholesale prices for М-100 HFO down to RUB 9,579 in RF spot market

RF Government approves revised state programme on Transport System Development

Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund unsealed three offers for the sale of a 67% shareholding in Thessaloniki Port Authority SA

APL transforms Indonesia-United States service

Hyundai Merchant Marine signs LOI with DSME for construction of VLCCs

NIBULON to enlarge its fleet to 100 vessels within 4 years and to build passenger vessels

AIDAcara opens 2017 cruise ship season in Kiel, 142 calls and up to 500,000 cruise passengers expected

ITL Class of 2018 inaugurated in Shanghai

WMU hosted “Challenges of Unmanned Shipping" seminar co-organized by NI and WMU

Brent Crude futures price up 0.43% to $55.48, Light Sweet Crude – up 0.52% to $52.53

Baltic Dry Index up to 1,223 points