News 2017 September 5

ESL Shipping's eco-friendly dry cargo vessel Viikki successfully launched at Jinling shipyard in Nanjing, China

Aker Arctic’s ice laboratory returns to service after summer maintenance break

ABB to power Ritz Carlton Yacht Collection’s first vessel dubbed the “anti-cruise ship”

Tallink Grupp transported 980,234 passengers in Aug’17, up 1.9% Y-o-Y

Throughput of Rostov-on-Don port up 9.3% to 13.4 mln t in 7M’17

Glass cullet rides the rails from the port of Tilbury

Russian developers to unveil Ocean Wave Energy Converter concept for sustainable power supply at Neva-2017

Passenger Port of St. Petersburg welcomed 11 cruise ships last week

HELCOM, CBSS and stakeholders join forces to catalyse sustainable shipping in the Baltic Sea

Passenger Port of St. Petersburg “Marine Façade” and Port of Hamburg sign MoU

Damen introduces electrically-driven dredge pump

Far East Grain Terminal LLC embarks on expansion of seaport Zarubino (photo)

Rosmorport announces tender for maintenance dredging at Murmansk port

Training for port security drills led by IMO in Nigeria

USV Pernov-A successfully completes test voyage around Russkiy island (photo release)

Throughput of Ukraine’s seaports in 8M’17 climbed by 1.6% Y-o-Y to 86.95 mln t

Nevsky Shipyard takes part in the First International Fishery Forum

HMM signs formal contract with DSME for five VLCCs

Gas to become world’s PRIMaRY energy source by 2035 - DNV GL

Vostochny Port is ready to handle cargo from Mongolia – RF Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov (photo)

Storvik Aqua becomes Vard Aqua

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

OLDENDORFF revives contract for two eco 36,000 tdw newbuildings

RF Government approves expansion of Zarubino seaport (Primorye) for construction of grain terminal (document)

Baltic Dry Index up to 1,187 points

APM Terminals sells Paranagua port share

Damen Shipyards Group again successfully delivers multiple dredgers to Bangladesh