News 2017 May 4

Port of Antwerp seeks new investor for Churchill site

ITF calls for tuna transshipment moratorium

Maersk Line and the Oetker Group make a joint announcement on the future management of Hamburg Süd

The 2017 cruise season at the Port of Gdansk officially begins

The Port of Gdansk Authority SA awarded the title of a Well-Perceived Company

Throughput of Chinese ports up 7.3% to 2.09 bln t in Jan-Apr'17

RF Navy’s strike ship group conducted training tasks in the Pacific Ocean

Royal IHC to build 2,300m3 TSHD for Baggerbedrijf de Boer – Dutch Dredging

Ulstein signs a complete system delivery for CSV to Acta Marine

The Port of Kiel welcomes its biggest cruise ship during this year’s summer season (photo)

New diesel-electric icebreaker Novorossiysk begins ice trials in Kara Sea

Bunker prices still in irregular trend

Artemiy Volynsky dredging pump arrives at the operations area in the Volga-Caspian Canal

Icebreaker Festival was held in Saint-Petersburg in late April (photo)

Golden Ocean announces delivery of dry bulk vessel

Arctia’s icebreaker Kontio returns from icebreaking (photo)

NIBULON will invest more than UAH 5.5 billion in Ukraine’s infrastructure

Tallink Grupp transported 807,616 passengers in April 2017

BMT launches new hybrid approach to management of Big Data

Bunker prices are still high at the Far East ports of Russia (graph)

Konecranes BOXHUNTER RTG arrives in the Caribbean

Throughput of Neva-Metal (Saint-Petersburg) in Jan-April'17 is flat, y-o-y, at 1.07 mln t

Newbuild dry cargo vessel “Atameken” left Nevsky Shipyard for the port of Aktau, Kazakhstan (photo)

RF Navy's Northern Fleet conducted more than 200 combat training activities in April

Throughput of port Azov up 6.3% to 2.20 mln t in 4M’17

Wärtsilä 34DF engines awarded EPA Tier iii emissions compliance certification

ABS approves innovative drillship design

Ship detachment of the Caspian Flotilla left Makhachkala for combat training

Brent Crude futures price down 0.63% to $50.47, Light Sweet Crude – down 0.67% to $47.50

NOVATEK signed Framework Agreement with Technip, Linde and NIPIGAS and License Agreement with Linde

Baltic Dry Index down to 1,034 points