News 2018 March 19

CMA CGM announces GRR from Asia to East Africa

NIBULON awarded first advanced training certificates of state standard to shipbuilders

Vladivostok Sea Fishing Port handled 618,500 tonnes of fish in 2M’18, up 19.8% Y-o-Y

Gross revenue of Sovcomflot in 2017 grew by 3.4% to $1.43 billion

VSC terminal launches train services to Ramenskoye Station

Wagenborg carries out inspections in Russian Far East

ClassNK releases Guidelines for Direct Load Analysis and Strength Assessment of hull structure

Port of Rotterdam Authority: solid financial results in 2017 create new scope for ambitious investment programme

Maersk Line relaunches Asia-Europe Network to increase schedule reliability

Port of Rotterdam could increase its market share in certain regions in South-West Germany by up to 23%

North Rhine-Westphalia and Port of Rotterdam make start on port agreement

Exercise on maritime security held in Nigeria on 14-16 March

Rosneft posts growth of its net income in 2017, by 40.7% to USD 3.8 billion

Average wholesale prices for М-100 HFO down to RUB 11,944 in RF spot market

Workshop on how to design and conduct drills and maritime security exercises held in Jamaica

DP World and NIIF joint venture Hindustan Infralog to acquire 90% of Continental Warehousing Corporation in India

52 icebreaker escort operations performed in eastern part of Gulf of Finland during 24 hours on March 18-19

Wärtsilä acquires Transas to accelerate its Smart Marine Ecosystem vision

ULSTEIN holds steel cutting for SunStone's X-BOW expedition cruise vessel

Aker Arctic and ICEYE to provide satellite ice information

13th Arctic Passion Seminar held in Helsinki

Bibby Offshore announces merger with Rever Offshore

Container throughput of port Hong Kong (China) up 2.2% to 3.22 million TEUs in Jan-Feb’18

Brent Crude futures price down 0.48% to $65.89, Light Sweet Crude – down 0.46% to $62.12

MSC launches new freight rail service between Seville, Spain, and the Atlantic

Singapore will host 17th Vessel Efficiency and Fuel Management Summit on 29-30 August 2018

Baltic Dry Index down to 1,143 points

Ulstein celebrates keel laying of Lindblad’s first polar new build

DP World acquires fully integrated logistics services provider in Peru