News 2018 April 17

Management of Azerbaijan Caspian Shipping Company met with seafarers of the Company’s Offshore Fleet

RF Navy's major landing ship Minsk visits Lisbon port

For the first time, more than 30 ports certified with EcoPorts PERS environmental standard

MAN Diesel & Turbo wins major container vessel order

Konecranes Gottwald Mobile Harbor Crane for Italian multi-purpose terminal

Port of Antwerp freight volume up 7.1% to 58,328,678 tonnes in Q1 2018

Reconstruction and modernization of Yug-2 terminal at the port of Ust-Luga to increase its annual capacity to 20 million tonnes by 2020

The world’s largest plug-in hybrid ship begins to take form

Rolls-Royce to supply innovative autocrossing system and propellers to 13 new ferries

DNV GL launches alternative fuels white paper

Inland container shipping sector consultations facilitated by Port of Rotterdam Authority yield tangible results

The Panama Canal “adrift” due to safety concerns

Authorities and researchers to seek solutions to Arctic navigation

PowerCell’s fuel cell technology will make vessels emission-free

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

Wan Hai Lines to launch Indonesia to Singapore / Malaysia service

HII awarded contract for DDG 51-Class follow yard services

Malta Freeport orders fifteen Konecranes RTGs

Vostochny Port JSC exported 6 million tonnes of coal YTD (photo)

Brent Crude futures price up 0.55% to $71.80, Light Sweet Crude – up 0.63% to $66.64

Throughput of port Kaliningrad in 3M’18 up 13% Y-o-Y to 3.56 million tonnes

Throughput of port Vysotsk down 3% to 4.52 million tonnes in 3M’18

Baltic Dry Index up to 1,025 points