News 2018 April 26

British Ports Association elects Alec Don as new Chairman

AIDA launches 2018 cruise season in Rostock

Cruise season begins in Stockholm

Royal IHC delivers 4000 tonnes crane vessel GULLIVER to Scaldis

Tallink launches virtual customer services assistant Nemo

IMO meeting in July to continue 2020 preparations

Aker Solutions upgrades Aberdeen site to target growing subsea services market

Cruise season in Tallinn starts on April 26 with this year’s first cruise vessel Viking Sea calling the Old City Harbour

New report of Intrernational Transport Forum assesses Japan’s ambition to become an international bunkering hub for LNG

MEPC 72: ISO confirms plans to develop interim guidance for 0.50%S bunker fuel

Hamburg newly elected Board Member for Cruise Europe Association

50 percent Co2 cut by 2050 – governments must acknowledge enormity of what IMO has agreed - ICS

IMO takes first step toward Arctic HFO ban, but first needs to define ‘HFO’

Highway section of Crimea Bridge passed acceptance tests (photo)

The newly established Klaveness Combination Carriers AS to form part of the solution to the ambitious climate strategy passed on by IMO

IPCSA is new honorary partner for Ports 4.0 Conference in Tallinn

Revenue at port of Amsterdam grows in 2017

GTT and Sembcorp Marine sign a license agreement for the design and construction of membrane tank solutions

Boskalis towage joint venture Keppel Smit Towage names first LNG powered harbor tug in South East Asia

DP World reports 7.3 % gross volume growth in first quarter of 2018

2,258 icebreaker escort operations performed in eastern part of Gulf of Finland this winter navigation season

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

Klaipėdos nafta starts allocation of LNG terminal capacities for new gas year

Brent Crude futures price up 0.61% to $74.45, Light Sweet Crude – up 0.48% to $68.38

IMO reaffirmed support for its African Member States

Azerbaijan Caspian Shipping Company’s shipyard repaired ferry vessel owned by Sea Trade Fleet of Turkmenistan

Baltic Dry Index up to 1,376 points