News 2017 April 19

CMA CGM announces FAK rates from Asia to North Europe

Admiralteiskie Verfi shipyard lays down patrol icebreaker Ivan Papanin (photo)

Dryships announces acquisition of three modern kamsarmax dry bulk vessels

MRTS installs first eight large-diameter bored piles at the construction site of LNG terminal in Kaliningrad Region (photo)

Welsh Government launches a £2 million Port Development Fund

Mediterranean’s largest high speed catamaran to be powered by Wärtsilä waterjets

Solstad Offshore signs contract with Saipem for the CSV “Normand Cutter”

Worn dry cargo ship Geroi Arsenala was sold by Ukrrichflot (Ukraine) to Gunes Shipping (Turkey) 4 years ago

CMA CGM announces PSS from North Europe to US West Coast

Chernomortransneft continues reconstruction of Tikhoretsk – Novorossiysk-1 oil trunk pipeline as part of the Yug project

Seanergy Maritime announces time charter contract for one of its capesize vessels

Transneft Siberia replaces the underwater crossing of Ust-Balyk – Nizhnevartovsk oil pipeline across the river Syroy Agan

Port of Antwerp posts Q1 2017 results

New Quetzal terminal welcomes largest vessel to call a Guatemalan Port

Rosmorport changes tariffs for additional environmental services rendered in Vostochny and Nakhodka seaports

Coal exports via Rosterminalugol terminal hit 6 mln t milestone this year (photo)

Vopak expands in the Port of Santos, Brazil

TechnipFMC and DOF Subsea announce the delivery of Skandi Búzios and commencement of contract with Petrobras

Passenger terminal for large cruise ships to be built at port Korsakov (Sakhalin)

Troitsa Bay Seaport handled boxship with test consignment of cargo delivered by international transport corridor Primorye-2 (photo)

Goodman continues to expand in the Port of Hamburg with the development of a new flexible logistics centre

Brent Crude futures price down 0.09% to $54.84, Light Sweet Crude – down 0.04% to $52.39

Caspian Sea States cooperate on pollution response

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