News 2017 November 29

New guided-missile frigate Suining joins PLA Navy

Bahri honoured with three awards at Lloyd’s List Awards 2017 and MEED Awards 2017

Yamal LNG granted state permission to commission first LNG train

Design of unmanned cargo ship expected in Russia by 2019

VOS Patience and VOS Partner chartered to TechnipFMC

Fincantieri delivers the largest ship so far built in Italy

APM Terminals CEO named to Executive Board of A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S

MAN Diesel & Turbo’s dual-fuel MAN L23/30DF engine passes Type Approval Test

SMM Maritime Industry Report: Sector sees light at the end of the tunnel

Fincantieri and MSC Cruises sign an agreement for the construction of two units

Athens, Greece will host 2018 SMART4SEA Conference & Awards on January 31

COSCO (Dalian) Shipyard delivers subsea support vessel to Maersk Supply Service

LUKOIL posts IFRS profit of RUB 298.3 bln in 9M’17, up 86.2% Y-o-Y

EU NAVFOR and CMF work together to combat piracy off the coast of Somalia

Port of Gdansk throughput up 3% to 32 mln t in Jan-Oct'17

Astrakhan Branch of FSUE Rosmorport dredged over 4.5 mln cbm of material in summer navigation season of 2017

Wagenborg Towage salvages a port crane in Wilhelmshaven

RF Register of Seaports revised information about Big Port Saint-Petersburg

Hamburg leads as first German seaport to introduce slot-booking system for container truckers

Sea Port of St.Petersburg expands the range of container services

Teekay Offshore orders two additional LNG fueled shuttle tankers

International Maritime Prize for 2016 presented to Koji Sekimizu

NIBULON enlarges capacities of its transshipment terminal in Mykolaiv

Damen delivers its first vessels to Marine Core & Charter LLC

Polish LNG Conference was held last week in Warsaw, Poland

Ukraine to work with port of Rotterdam

Bunker market at the port of Novorossiysk, Russia, shows mixed price movements (graph)

Finnish Transport Agency will test position-indicating spar buoys

Brent Crude futures price down 0.63% to $62.84, Light Sweet Crude – down 0.55% to $57.67

Bunker prices at the Port of Saint-Petersburg, Russia, show no significant changes (graph)

International Maritime Prize for 2016 presented to Koji Sekimizu

Baltic Dry Index up to 1,506 points