News 2018 March 15

CMA CGM announces FAK rates from Asia to the Mediterranean

ICS releases latest Flag State Performance Table (with new criteria included)

Fincantieri will cooperate with Barzan Holdings

Throughput of port Kaliningrad in 2M’18 up 16% Y-o-Y to 2.32 million tonnes

Second Sanmar Voith Schneider Propeller tug joins sister in Israel

Throughput of port Vyborg up 19% to 197,800 tonnes in 2M’18

Seaspan acquires Greater China Intermodal Investments LLC

MABUX: global bunker market still in 'wait-and-see' mood

DP World announces strong financial results for 2017

Throughput of port Vysotsk down 5% to 3.06 million tonnes in 2M’18

ECSA and WSC call for the revision of the Reporting Formalities Directive to improve the efficiency of maritime transport

Port of Oakland imports up 14.9 percent in February 2018

Sanmar orders 42 Rolls-Royce thrusters

Coastal facilities and hydraulic engineering structures under FNPP project in Chukotka to be completed in August 2019

Port of Dover awards major contract for new Refrigerated Cargo Terminal

Yang Ming to launch new Japan-Malaysia-Vietnam direct service

Throughput of port Primorsk in 2M’18 down 32% Y-o-Y to 7.47 million tonnes

Throughput of port Ust-Luga up 6% to 16.59 million tonnes in 2M'18

VARD secures contract for the construction of one fishing vessel for Remøybuen AS

Throughput of Big Port St. Petersburg up 11% to 9.01 million tonnes in 2M’18

Paweł Jakubowski appointed as President of Polskie LNG S.A. Management Board

Freeport of Riga is getting ready for new cruise ship season

MOL announces delivery of the Beluga Ace, 1st next-generation FLEXIE series car carrier

34 icebreaker escort operations performed in eastern part of Gulf of Finland during 24 hours on March 14-15

Bunker prices are going up at the Far East ports of Russia (graph)

Marine Recruiting Agency and Corporate University “Norilsk Nickel” take on joint educational project

Brent Crude futures price up 0.05% to $64.92, Light Sweet Crude – up 0.11% to $61.03

Arctic Council will gather in Levi, Finland on 22-23 March 2018

Baltic Dry Index down to 1,169 points