News 2018 October 3

Kim Heng buys oil product tanker Angel Sun

Proposed amendment to the Eagle Bulk bond terms to facilitate the financing of scrubbers

Świnoujście-Szczecin Fairway to undergo modernisation

MOL's next-generation car carrier FLEXIE Series wins Good Design Award 2018

Tallink Grupp transported 730,631 passengers in September 2018, up 0.9% Y-o-Y

Maersk Tankers to move into new Copenhagen office in 2019

Port of Vancouver extends voluntary 15-knot slowdown period for tier 2 vessels in First Narrows Traffic Control Zone

Rosneft to pay RUB 14.58 per ordinary share as dividends for H1’18

Port of Rotterdam accepted five new fixed berths for barges along the Maas end of Isle of Brienenoord

Seanergy Maritime announces agreement to acquire one modern Capesize vessel and sale of two Supramax vessels

Traffic flows between the port of Antwerp and Central and Eastern Europe on the rise

Panama Canal transits four LNG vessels in one day

Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore organises Singapore International Bunkering Conference and Exhibition

IPEM: Russian coal ports should turn to world’s best available technologies

New LNG vessel for Tokyo Gas named

NOVATEK signed Strategic Partnership Agreement with Siemens

Van Oord acquires MPI Offshore

Stena Line expands traffic to Denmark from the Port of Gothenburg

Russian Railways and RF Transport Ministry confirm their plans to implement all infrastructure projects

DFDS ferry Regina Seaways suffers engine breakdown in the Baltic Sea

Kiel marks the last of nine maiden cruise ship visits this year

Baltic Dry Index is up to 1,570 points

Rosterminalugol handled more than 15.4 million tonnes of export coal in 9M’18

Review of Maritime Transport reports 4% expansion in seaborne trade volume in 2017, projects similar growth for 2018

Damen and parent company of Eesti Gaas sign contract for first of new vessel class

Vostochny Port exported 18.5 million tonnes of coal in 9M’2018, up 7.3% Y-o-Y

Regina Seaways ferry extinguished in the Baltic Sea successfully docked in Klaipeda

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

Brent Crude futures price is down 0.01% to $84.8, Light Sweet Crude – down 0.01% to $75.22

2nd Baltic Ports and Shipping conference gathered world-level experts and professionals of industry in Riga