News 2018 May 14

“K” Line and partners establish LNG bunkering JVs and launch the LNG bunkering business in Japan

The Paris MoU agrees to focus on prevention of air pollution from ships

Port of Southampton home to the country’s first carbon neutral cruise terminal

Sergey Buyanov reelected as Director General of Central Marine Research and Design Institute (photo)

Seaborn hosts naming ceremony for Seabourn Ovation in Valletta, Malta

ASPO to build two chemical tankers of Project 00216М for Volgotrans (photo)

Jeddah workshop aims to ensure safe and secure regional waters

OOCL receives HKAEE Gold Award for outstanding green leadership

Preparations for conversion to create Europe’s first LNG dredger get underway at Damen Shiprepair Dunkerque

Cyprus, Greece and Israel sign pollution contingency plan

Net income of Rosneft reached RUB 81 bln in 1Q 2018, more than 7 times higher YoY

Average wholesale prices for М-100 HFO up to RUB 15,725 in RF spot market

Carnival Cruise Line unveils FOC in Miami, the third operations center in global network

Freight turnover of Neva-Metal (Saint-Petersburg) in 4M’18 declined by 3% Y-o-Y to 1.42 million tonnes

TOTE Maritime Alaska delays its Orca class vessels LNG conversion schedule

Carnival Cruise Line to expand its Cuba cruise offerings in 2019-20 including the first Cuba cruises from Charleston

Throughput of Russian seaports in 4M’18 grew by 3.7% Y-o-Y to 260.1 million tonnes (detalization)

Throughput of port Helsinki (Finland) in 4M'18 up 14% Y-o-Y to 5.06 million tonnes (table)

Throughput of port HaminaKotka (Finland) in Jan-Apr'18 up 16.4% Y-o-Y to 5.33 million tonnes

Magomedov brothers accused under several articles of RF Criminal Code

Brent Crude futures price down 0.53% to $76.71, Light Sweet Crude – down 0.35% to $70.45

Seaspan takes delivery of second 10000teu containership in four ship series

Yury Ovsyannikov appointed as Minister of Transport of the Republic of Crimea (photo)

APL further reduces fleet carbon emissions in 2017

Baltic Dry Index up to 1,472 points