News 2018 May 3

DOF Subsea contract award for Skandi Chieftain

DP World signs MoU with three subsidiaries of Erasmus University, Rotterdam

Throughput of port Azov up 54% to 3.38 million tonnes in Jan-Apr’2018

Shearwater GeoServices awarded North Sea survey for Premier Oil

Supervisory Board of AB “Klaipėdos Nafta” approved

CMA CGM confirms its investment in CEVA Logistics

Representatives of European ports gather in Riga to solve challenges faced by cruise business

Halfway stage in the construction of Sweden’s new freight port

Austal USA delivers eighth Independence-variant LCS to the U.S. Navy

Bureau Veritas and Samsung Heavy Industry celebrate e-CODS first anniversary of successful utilization

Coal exports from Russia in Jan-Apr'18 grew by 5% Y-o-Y to 59.66 million tonnes

Smart building hub in the Port of Amsterdam optimises construction flows and relieves roads

Russia's crude exports in Jan-Apr'18 grew by 0.6% Y-o-Y to 82.91 million tonnes

Hapag-Lloyd opens new office in Tema, Ghana

Programme of state support to construction of fishing ships extended by RF Government through 2019

Bunker prices may continue upward evolution next week, expert says

Hapag-Lloyd announces rates from Far East Westbound East Asia (excluding Japan) to Europe North Continent and Mediterranean

Seajacks to install Siemens Gamesa turbines in Taiwan

CMHI and DNV GL ink LoI for two multi-activity jack-ups

Interlake time-charters the Montville barge for Great Lakes Service

Panama Canal consolidates its strategic position in the transportation of LNG

Bunker sales at port Vladivostok in Jan-Apr’2018 grew by 84% to some 390,000 tonnes

IMO is holding its first training event for Libyan port facility security officers

Svitzer adds two Sanmar built tractors to its fleet

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

IMO takes part in Pacific Women in Maritime conference

Rosmorport appoints Gennady Khripunov as Acting Director of its Astrakhan Branch (photo)

Ocean Network Express starts new EC5 route in South Asia

Russian Railways' network loading up 3.4% to 424.6 million tonnes in Jan-Apr'18

Brent Crude futures price down 0.27% to $73.16, Light Sweet Crude – down 0.18% to $67.81

Russia’s Government Commission approves Timur Kulibayev’s control over Port Vysotsky (photo)

​IMO highlights GHG strategy at Bonn Climate Change talks

Baltic Dry Index up to 1,346 points