News 2017 April 26

East-Asia workshop boosts seafarer training

IMO’s support for knowledge-sharing and capacity-building in Africa highlighted at 3rd conference of AAMA

CMA CGM & Adani Ports create joint-venture to run Mundra Port’s new container terminal for 15 years

ABS facilitates Polar Code Operational Assessment

DNV GL launches new PSC Planner application

Port fleet of Baltic Sea Tug Agency (Ust-Luga port) expanded with two new tugboats (photo)

Maritime and Port Authority in Singapore honours “K”LINE Group Company

ABB launches Shipping 4.0 with search for ‘Power of the Future

Scorpio Bulkers announces agreement to time charter-in one Ultramax vessel

Tall ship Khersones arrived in Sochi (photo)

Prosafe awarded Johan Sverdrup contract

Klaipėdos Nafta starts allocation of LNG terminal capacities

TechnipFMC awarded subsea contract for ExxonMobil Liza in Guyana

Cargo shipments by North-Western Shipping Company up 7% to 1.35 mln t in QI’2017

China launches its first home-made aircraft carrier

“LSC Shipmanagement” adds to the fleet its biggest tanker – “Elandra Eagle”

Hyundai Heavy Industries posts largest ship orders in 3 years

Sea Port of Saint-Petersburg spent RUB 3.6 mln for implementation of the ecological programme in QI’2017

Krasnoye Sormovo to launch second chemical tanker of Project RST27 built for Volgotrans on 5 May 2017 (photo)

Rail Baltica project to boost Baltic economies

Damen TSHD 650 launched for Gippsland Ports

Vladimir Putin attended launch of project to manufacture marine gas turbines at Saturn plant in Rybinsk (photo)

Transneft Druzhba increased delivery capacity of Baltic Pipeline System – 2 up to 36 mln t

HMS Severn visits port of Cardiff

Brent Crude futures price down 0.13% to $52.50, Light Sweet Crude – down 0.18% to $49.47

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

Vasily Kornilyev appointed as Acting Chairman of Astrakhan Region Government (photo)

Baltic Dry Index down to 1,154 points