News 2018 April 23

World’s largest short sea Ro-Ro vessel MV Celine christened at Dublin Port

Digital Ship’s Maritime Big Data Forum will be held on 29 May 2018 in Oslo

Ocean Rig announces agreement to postpone delivery of newbuilding drillship Ocean Rig Santorini

Construction of Bagayevsky hydrosystem begins in Rostov Region (photo)

ITF urges Hutchison Ports to improve global health and safety operations

Polskie LNG conduct a technical dialogue on extension of LNG Terminal in Świnoujście

Rosmorport’s icebreakers assisted over 5,700 vessels in freezing seaports of Russia this winter navigation season

Hapag-Lloyd plans 20 percent reduction in CO2 emissions by 2020

Azerbaijan Caspian Shipping Company to provide additional scholarships for students

TransContainer’s net profit in QI’2018 increased by 19.5% Y-o-Y to RUB 1.479 million

M.v. Tucana delivers fibre optic cable baskets from Drammen (Norway)

Port of Gdansk (Poland) throughput up 44% to 12.7 million tonnes in January-March 2018

Average wholesale prices for М-100 HFO in RF spot market up to RUB 13,542 per tonne

ICTSI PNG units ink union agreements

MOL сrude oil tanker rescues a castaway in the South China Sea

Container barge transport to become more efficient in the port of Antwerp

Cargo transportation by Ukraine’s water transport fell by 7.3% to 0.7 million tonnes in 3M’18

Vistula Maersk makes a maiden call to St. Petersburg, as first in series of new ice-class vessels

2 icebreaker escort operations performed in eastern part of Gulf of Finland during 24 hours on April 22-23

Training ship Perekop completes unofficial visit to Republic of Sri Lanka

Brent Crude futures price down 0.04% to $74.03, Light Sweet Crude – down 0.13% to $68.31

Workshop on IMO's ISPS Code held in Mexico

Training on ship air pollution and low carbon measures held in Tehran

Baltic Dry Index up to 1,281 points