News 2018 June 15

Hapag-Lloyd implements Peak Season Surcharge from Mediterranean to USA

Wallenius Wilhelmsen Ocean adds Adelaide on the Australia service

Throughput of port Kaliningrad in 5M’18 up 12% Y-o-Y to 6.05 million tonnes

GTT conducts two FEED studies on two types of Gravity Based System

Throughput of port Vyborg in 5M’18 up 22% Y-o-Y to 610,900 tonnes

Port of Koper officially part of the New Silk Road

Yantar Shipyard launches yet another trawler of Project SK-3101R

Port of Long Beach volume up to 687,427 TEU in May 2018

Royal IHC joins PortXL

Throughput of port Vysotsk in 5M’18 declined by 3% Y-o-Y to 7.49 million tonnes

Main phase of Nizhegorodsky hydrosystem project obtains state expert approval

VTG FastTrack makes ad hoc transportation from the Port of Hamburg possible

Vopak opens new rail infrastructure in the port of Antwerp

Royal IHC and IHC IQIP sign memorandum of agreement with SOIC

DNV GL issues first type approval for aluminium cables onboard ships

Throughput of port Primorsk in 5M’18 down 18% Y-o-Y to 22.63 million tonnes

Bunker prices are down at the Port of Saint-Petersburg, Russia (graph)

Innovative solution for lowering of ship emissions tested in the port of Rotterdam

LUKOIL commissions third well at Filanovsky field second stage

Throughput of port Ust-Luga in 5M’18 down 1% to 41.48 million tonnes

Throughput of Big Port St. Petersburg up 16% to 24.73 million tonnes in 5M’18

Lloyd’s Register and TWI launch Fullagar Technologies

Kotug Smit Towage performs naming ceremony for Damen tugs Rotterdam & Beagle

Brent Crude futures price down 0.14% to $75.83, Light Sweet Crude – down 0.09% to $66.83

Seaports of Ukraine handled 54.3 million tonnes of cargo in 5M’18, down 2.1% Y-o-Y

Throughput of Russian seaports in 5M’18 grew by 2.7% Y-o-Y to 328.4 million tonnes (detalization)

Baltic Dry Index up to 1,433 points