News 2017 September 13

RF Navy’s major landing ship Alexander Otrakovsky sailed off to long-distance voyage

NIBULON’s transshipment terminal visited by Ambassador of Switzerland to Ukraine

Arctic shelf development to be discussed during VI Murmansk International Business Week

Ningbo Zhoushan Port ranks the first among ports in South China in term of sea-rail intermodal transport volume

Construction of LNG-powered cruise ship Costa Cruises NB-1394 begins at Meyer Turku shipyard

Kelvin Hughes shows the next evolution of drone detection technology at DSEI

Rail freight transport between Russia and China up 16% in 1H 2017

Icebreaker Novorossiysk leaves Murmansk to support the expedition of Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (photo)

APL named 'Ship Operator Of The Year' at Safety at Sea Awards 2017

Australia’s longest pre-stressed girders placed at Port of Brisbane

ICS launches new brand

Rosmorport appoints Nikolai Zelenkov as Deputy Director for Navigation Safety of its Murmansk branch (photo)

ABS, GasLog study advances new method to predict LNG boil-off rate

Newly built Coralius showed to the public

Samskip adds 45ft flatracks to its fleet

MAN reveals 45/60CR marine diesel engine

Igor Zakharov appointed as Transport Minister of Crimea (photo)

ITF produces new criminalisation toolkit for seafarer unions

Live broadcast of IAA PortNews’ Port Fleet Conference starts on 18 September, at 12:00 (Moscow time)

Port of Ipswich invests in new fleet of forklift trucks to improve port operations

Jamaica and Malta accede to Ballast Water Management Convention

Brent Crude futures price down 0.28% to $54.12, Light Sweet Crude – down 0.06% to $48.02

IMO’s CCC 4 will consider latest research results on potential instability of bauxite when carried as a ship’s cargo

Baltic Dry Index down to 1,344 points

Bunker prices are flat at the port of Saint-Petersburg, Russia (graph)