News 2017 July 10

Oceanteam Board's director Bote de Vries steps down

Cargo traffic at Latvia's Port of Liepaja climbed by 30% to 3.27 mln t in 6M’17

COSCO Shipping Holdings and SIPG offer to acquire OOIL

NAT announces 2Q2017 dividend payment

USCG, ADEC complete response to vessel grounded near Wrangell, Alaska

Passenger Port of St. Petersburg welcomed 17 cruise ships last week

King & Spalding advises Jordan Cove LNG export terminal

Evergreen named Best Asia-Africa Shipping Line

GONDAN delivered PAX, its second dual fuel tug

Verifavia shipping exceeds 1,000 ships under EU MRV assessment

PORT FLEET tugboats took part in river carnival in Saint-Petersburg (photo)

Bakker Sliedrecht to deliver electrical power plant for world’s most powerful cutter suction dredger

Evergas holds namegiving ceremony for 8th multigas LNG vessel in Houston

Throughput of port Helsinki (Finland) up 12% to 6.5 mln t in HI’17

Average wholesale prices for М-100 HFO up to RUB 9,565 in RF spot market

Throughput of port Ventspils (Latvia) up 23% to 12.4 mln t in HI’17

Fincantieri holds steel cutting for 3rd Carnival Cruise Line's VISTA class cruise ship

COSCO Shipping Holdings and SIPG jointly offer to acquire OOIL combination creates a global leader

Commercial Port of Vladivostok elects Aleksandr Isurins as Chairman of its Supervisory Board (photo)

Aqualis Offshore contracted to provide engineering study of a newbuild LNG carrier

Intermodal Europe 2017 returns to Amsterdam

Market study by DNV GL reveals huge potential for LNG as a marine fuel in the Iberian Peninsula

MEPC 71 agrees to implementation dates for ballast water treatment systems

Nakilat transitions LNG Al Sheehaniya to in-house management

USC and Peace Boat sign letter of intent to build Ecoship by 2020 (photo)

USCG aids vessel taking on water near Westport

Brent Crude futures price up 0.41% to $46.90, Light Sweet Crude – up 0.36% to $44.39

Turkish Coast Guard Command takes delivery of first two in a series of six Damen SaR vessels

New Liebherr crane launched at Global Ports Group’s Moby Dik terminal

Baltic Dry Index down to 822 points