News 2018 March 16

Rijkswaterstaat awards Afsluitdijk project to Levvel consortium

HHLA Container Terminal Burchardkai handles new record ship

ICS publishes latest Flag State Performance Table

Vladimir Putin inspected the completed new road section of the Crimean Bridge

Wison successfully delivers the global largest single cracking furnace module

GTT announces the end of the test phase of its new LNG brick® technology

Fincantieri starts building of ultra-luxury cruise ship for Regent Seven Seas Cruises

Caterpillar Marine announces first European IMO Tier III tugboat

Throughput of port Kavkaz up 67% to 4.3 million tonnes in 2M’18

Port of Hamburg proves effectiveness in handling mega-carriers

Training for port facility security staff arranged in the Dominican Republic

Multipurpose Reloading Complex takes lead in the industry

Karachi Shipyards & Engineering Works delivers two Damen Stan Patrol 1605 FRP patrol boats to Pakistan Customs

Bunker prices continue going down at the port of Novorossiysk, Russia (graph)

52 icebreaker escort operations performed in eastern part of Gulf of Finland during 24 hours on March 15-16

Seaports of Russia’s Azov Sea Basin handled 16.77 million tonnes of cargo in winter 2017-2018, up 63.8% Y-o-Y

Latin America maritime cooperation centre launched

Vympel Shipyard laid down second armament support ship of Project 20360М for RF Defence Ministry (photo)

Vostochny Port JSC develops railway infrastructure under its Phase 3 project (photo)

IMO joined leading oil spill experts to discuss future issues concerning oil spill preparedness, response and restoration

Brent Crude futures price down 0.11% to $65.05, Light Sweet Crude – down 0.05% to $61.16

Panama Canal signs agreement with Association of Soybean and Corn Producers of Mato Grosso

IMO is looking at safety aspects of on shore power supply to ships

Bunker prices are flat at the Port of Saint-Petersburg, Russia (graph)

Baltic Dry Index down to 1,150 points

Damen unveils Multi Cat Water Injection Dredger