News 2018 March 14

Port of Antwerp sets up maritime training institute in Brazil

Port of Oakland releases a new 5-year strategic plan

Baltic Workboats delivers ten more 15m Baltic wave piercing pilot boats to Denmark pilots stations

Fincantieri upgrades ultra-luxury cruise ship Silver Spirit

Port of Long Beach cargo volume up 32.8 percent to 661,790 TEUs in February 2018

BMT upgrades critical monitoring systems for Termap

Klaveness continues relationship with Arcelor Mittal

SEA\LNG voices its support for the IMO's carriage ban on non-compliant fuels

Pilot concession projects officially launched at the seaports Olvia and Kherson

ABP’s Port of Ayr takes delivery of new state-of-the-art crane to improve operations

CMA CGM announces FAK rates from East Mediterranean ports to Gulf and Red Sea

Posidonia Games to be held in the lead-up to Posidonia 2018 exhibition

Throughput of port Helsinki (Finland) in 2M'18 up 16.7% Y-o-Y to 2.53 million tonnes (table)

GEODIS teams up with Portrix Logistic Software to provide instant online pricing via WebQuote

Consolidated cargo turnover of NCSP Group totaled 11,676 thousand tonnes in Jan'18 (table)

China Communications Construction Company to build dry dock at Zvezda shipyard by the end of 2019 (photo)

DNV GL opens LNG test centre to enable safer and more efficient use of LNG

Bibby Offshore wins contract with an oil and gas supermajor

Global Ports reports loss of USD 53.0 million in 2017 compared to a profit in 2016

Ports of Gdansk and Gdynia promote Poland at Seatrade Cruise Global fair

Port of Gdansk Authority takes another step towards ensuring navigability of the Wisła River

28 icebreaker escort operations performed in eastern part of Gulf of Finland during 24 hours on March 13-14

The Maritime Standard Awards 2018 maintains winning formula

Brent Crude futures price down 0.12% to $64.56, Light Sweet Crude – up 0.03% to $60.73

Baltic Dry Index down to 1,179 points

Bunker market shows mixed price movements at the Port of Saint-Petersburg, Russia (graph)