News 2017 June 30

Chinese SunRui becomes first Asian manufacturer to win USCG type approval

APL voted 'Best Shipping Line in the Transpacific' at the 2017 Asian Freight, Logistics and Supply Chain Awards

Northern Sea Route will be developed by a dedicated organization

Hyundai Merchant Marine starts new service between Incheon and Haiphong

Stena Line signs deal with China’s largest travel agent

Severnaya Verf launches corvette Gremyashchy of Project 20385 (photo)

Subsea 7 announces acquisition of certain businesses of EMAS Chiyoda Subsea

Welhunt, Oldendorff Carriers and Haivan introduce a coal transshipment hub in South-Vietnam

Technical readiness of diesel-electric icebreaker Viktor Chernomyrdin is 55%

Royal IHC presents sustainable dredging innovations to CHIDA

Murmansk welcomed this season’s first cruise liner at its pier for long-distance lines (photo)

NYK Auto Logistics gets formal go-ahead from the government of Vietnam

China State Shipbuilding Corporation launches new marine service business with state of the art logistics centre

Throughput of Russian ports in 2017 will near 800 mln t – RF Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov

MSC signs up to new IMO initiative to support low-carbon shipping

The world's largest container ship, OOCL Hong Kong, already in Gdansk

Bunker prices continue going down at the Far East ports of Russia (graph)

Majority of Maersk terminals operational after cyber attack

Hiab expands its connected solutions offering

Krasnoye Sormovo shipyard fulfilled contracts on construction and delivery of tankers to CMS

Vladislav Zhukov will head Sea Port of Saint-Petersburg, JSC (photo)

Passenger Port of St. Petersburg welcomes first ferry this season

MOL to launch 2017 annual vessel safety campaign

Russian Maritime Register of Shipping caries out research of subsea pipelines safety

Media Group PortNews starts working on special edition of its journal for Transport Week - 2017

The Freeport of Riga Board unanimously approved Ansis Zeltins as the Freeport of Riga CEO

Decision on amendments into procedure of admission to Vyborg check point will be made by mid-July 2017

Big landing ships “Azov” and “Cezar Kunikov” are participating in the Blask Sea Fleet training

Brent Crude futures price up 0.57% to $47.90, Light Sweet Crude – up 0.6% to $45.20

Port of Gdansk continues modernization of its infrastructure

Baltic Dry Index down to 920 points