News 2018 February 7

The EFIP looks for a new director

Throughput of port Temryuk in January 2018 up 5.1% Y-o-Y to 288,200 t

Russia to design an unmanned dredger

Acta Marine contracts second W2W CSV

Rosmorport set to raise the share of dredging works performed by its own equipment to 70% (photo)

Aker Solutions expands into offshore floating wind

ALP Maritime takes delivery of the ALP Keeper

Höegh LNG : Höegh Giant starts time charter contract with Gas Natural Fenosa

Freight turnover of Neva-Metal (Saint-Petersburg) in January 2018 grew by 20% Y-o-Y to 256,000 t

DP World reports record volume of 70 million TEU and 10.1% volume growth in 2017

RS class: new multipurpose icebreaking supply vessel named after Yevgeny Primakov

Coal exports via Vostochny Port in January 2018 grew by 4% Y-o-Y to 2 mln t (photo)

Hydraulic Engineering Structures and Dredging Congress kicked off in Moscow (photo)

Seaspan acquires two 2500 TEU vessels and enters into 4-year time charters with Maersk

14 icebreaker escort operations performed in eastern part of Gulf of Finland during 24 hours on February 6-7

Coal exports via Rosterminalugol in Jan'18 surged by 42% Y-o-Y to 2 mln t (photo)

Diana Shipping announces direct continuation of time-charter contract for M/V Selina with BG Shipping

Taganrog Sea Commercial Port handled 1.59 mln t of cargo in 2017, up 48% Y-o-Y (photo)

Reconstruction of NIBULON shipbuilding and repair yard will bring it to a new level

HMM and AAL join hands to upgrade Asia - Middle East multpurpose vessel (MPV) service

Total and MOL ink long-term charter contract for a pioneer LNG bunker vessel

Brent Crude futures price up 0.75% to $67.36, Light Sweet Crude – up 0.82% to $63.91

Consortium of operators, designers and developers to be set up in Russia to implement unmanned cargo ship project

Baltic Dry Index down to 1,095 points