News 2017 September 22

ESL Shipping's second LNG-fueled dry cargo vessel was named Haaga

Black Sea Fleet frigate Admiral Essen returned to Sevastopol

Port of Gdansk throughput up 4% to 25.5 mln t in Jan-Aug'17

Pella Shipyard (Leningrad Region) launched the harbor tugboat of Project 04690 (graphics)

Connecting Europe Conference takes place in Tallinn

Throughput of port Kaliningrad in Jan-Aug'17 grew by 15% to 9.02mln t

Wan Hai Lines awarded “Container Shipping Line of The Year India-Far East Trade Lane” for the sixth time in seven years

Throughput of port Vyborg up 16% to 935,600 t in 8M’17

Throughput of port Vysotsk up 4% to 11.74 mln t in Jan-Aug'17

Neptun shipyard in Rostock finishes first engine room module for AIDAnova

Mooring trials of nuclear-powered icebreaker Arktika scheduled for early 2018

Polarcus awarded broadband 3D project in Asia Pacific

USCG to present Amver Awards to Dutch ship owners at Europort 2017

MOL issues "Safety, Environmental and Social Report 2017"

Throughput of port Primorsk in 8M’17 down 7% Y-o-Y to 40.12 mln t

PhilaPort container throughput up to 54,185 TEUs in August 2017

Baltiysky Zavod launches Sibir, first serial nuclear-powered icebreaker of Project 22220 (photo)

Meyer Werft to build cruise ship for Saga Cruises

Singapore will host 18th Ballast Water Management Conference on 7-8 February 2018

Throughput of port Ust-Luga up 12% to 67.54 mln t in 8M’17

Throughput of Big Port St. Petersburg up 11% to 35.26 mln t in 8M’17

Damen displays leading position in global OPV market

Brent Crude futures price up 0.16% to $56.52, Light Sweet Crude – up 0.28% to $50.69

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

Baltic Dry Index up to 1,470 points