News 2018 March 6

CMA CGM announces Emergency Bunker Surcharge from North Europe, West Med, Portugal to West Africa

DP World displayed new technologies at ‘Innovation Sandbox’ at Kite Beach in Dubai

Seaports of Ukraine handled 20.5 million tonnes of cargo in 2M’17, up 4.6% Y-o-Y

Maersk Line increases FAK rates from Europe to West Africa

JAXPORT’s heavy lift berth offers rail-to-ship service for heavy locomotives

IAA PortNews offers photo release from “Dangerous cargoes: new transportation requirements” conference

CMA CGM to revise Swahili Express service rotation

Third new Damen tug taken into service by Kotug Smit Towage

The Baltic Sea countries and the EU come together at the 2018 HELCOM Ministerial Meeting in Brussels

At least 150 ships to be built under STLC programme - Sergey Khramagin

“K” LINE and Uyeno Group join to SEA\LNG coalition

CMA CGM announces FAK rates from the Mediterranean to USEC and USGULF

Vladimir Putin told about implementation of Lavna project (photo)

Representatives of marine and river industries comment on presidential address to the Federal Assembly

HMM to adopt Cloud-based next-generation system

Rosmorport’s icebreakers assisted more than 3,000 vessels in freezing seaports of Russia this winter navigation season

GoodBulk announces delivery of Capesize vessel and updates on capital formation

Freight turnover of Neva-Metal (Saint-Petersburg) in 2M’18 was flat Y-o-Y at 500,000 tonnes

Fincantieri will renew two cruise ferries for Grimaldi

Hapag-Lloyd launches digital rate distribution on CargoSphere

Bunker prices are slightly down at the Far East ports of Russia (graph)

Damen Marine Components and Van der Velden Marine Systems announce merger

44 icebreaker escort operations performed in eastern part of Gulf of Finland during 24 hours on March 5-6

EPPR table-top exercise on oil spill response in the Arctic will be run in Oulu on 7 March 2018

Orinta Barkauskaitė started to manage “Klaipėdos Nafta” communications

Brent Crude futures price up 0.18% to $65.66, Light Sweet Crude – up 0.19% to $62.69

Baltic Dry Index up to 1,210 points