News 2017 May 5

Throughput of Klaipeda port (Lithuania) climbs by 1.2% to 13.44 mln t in 4M’17

Port of Tallinn participated in the international logistics conference TransRussia 2017

AEC Annual Meeting 2017 to be held in Fairbanks, Alaska

IMO Secretary-General spoke at Joint Ministerial Conference of the Paris and Tokyo MOUs on Port State Control

Five-millionth tonne of oil produced at Gazprom Neft’s Novoportovskoye field

Swedish Orient Lines Gothenburg-Zeebrugge cargo volume increases by 98 per cent in the first quarter 2017

Krasnoye Sormovo launches the second chemical tanker of Project RST27 built for Volgotrans (photo)

Solent Stevedores to open new empty container yard at DP World London Gateway

MSC Fantasia makes her maiden call to Passenger Port of Saint Petersburg

Russia acknowledges IMO as the only international regulator of shipping – Victor Olersky (photo)

ABS supports DSME on FLNG concept

Saint Petersburg Governor opens cruise season of 2017 in Passenger Port of St. Petersburg

DP World signs MOU with the Indian National Investment and Infrastructure Fund to develop logistics infrastructure

Training course on maritime law enforcement for countries surrounding the Gulf of Aden held in Saudi Arabia

Cargo traffic within Azov-Don Basin of Russia’s IWWs up 40.5% to 694,000 t in 4M’17

Brent Crude futures price down 1.82% to $47.50, Light Sweet Crude – down 2.07% to $44.58

Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings partners with Alibaba Group to enter the China cruise market

Baltic Dry Index down to 1,004 points

Throughput of Rostov-on-Don port up 13.2% to 4.27 mln t in 4M’17

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