News 2017 June 9

Teekay Offshore Partners announces new board member

Sea Port of Saint-Petersburg takes part in conference dedicated to Big Port St. Petersburg development

Kapitan Dranitsyn icebreaker starts operations in the Port of Pevek

Bureau Veritas partners with ComplianceMetrix

HELCOM statement at the Ocean Conference highlights regional and cross-sectoral cooperation

ABS hosts industry representatives to discuss the air gap calculation procedures

ABB to modernize Canadian Coast Guard ships

Throughput of port Riga (Latvia) down 4% to 14.88 mln t in 5M’17

All Weather Terminal at ABP’s port of Hull achieves a recycling award

Coal exports from Russia up 6% to 73.528 mln t in 5M’17

Navios Maritime Containers announces closing of $50.3 mln private placement and acquisition of five container vessels

Primorsk Port wins anti-monopoly case in court

Oversized equipment intended for Moscow Refinery’s ‘Euro+’ facility delivered by Volga-Baltic waterways (photo, video)

Port of Virginia volumes up by 12.5 percent to 246,871 TEU in May 2017

KPMG to audit Ukrainian Seaports Authority

ECSA welcomes Council conclusions on EU maritime transport policy

Capacity of Russian ports can grow by 3.8% to 1 bln 3.6 mln t in 2017 – Association of Commercial Sea Ports (photo)

Russia's crude exports up 5.1% to 109.19 mln t in 5M’17

Eimskip acquires the logistics company SHIP-LOG A/S in Denmark

ZNT Yard launches two boats of Project 23040 for RF Navy (photo)

Brent Crude futures price down 0.40% to $47.66, Light Sweet Crude – down 0.37% to $45.47

Ocean Yield announces investment in Suezmax tanker with long term charter

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

Shipowners encourage EU-China leadership in shaping IMO CO2 strategy

Baltic Dry Index up to 824 points

Philly Shipyard starts construction of modern containership fleet for the Hawaii trade

Fort Ross Dialogue forum held in Russia for the first time

Port of Oakland import volume up by 1.4 percent to 82,440 TEU in May 2017

Pella Shipyard launches tugboat «AGAR» of project 90600 (photo)

GTT receives order from Samsung Heavy Industries to equip new Floating Liquefied Natural Gas unit

Unifeeder upgrades service from Russia and Finland to UK