News 2018 December 5

Damen’s first Fishing Seminar success as new leasing fund welcomed by South African fishing community

Significant reduction of financing under national plan for mainlines development to affect NSR – Yury Tsvetkov

CMA CGM to introduce new BAF Formula from 1st of January 2019

ONE implements Low Sulphur Fuel Surcharge in Central China

Samskip’s UK investments secure supply chain against Brexit disruption

ONE introduces new bunker surcharge

Murmansk Region Government suggests shifting oil transshipment in the Kola Bay from offshore to costal terminals

Owners of UV ballast water treatment systems reconsider and switch to Alfa Laval PureBallast 3

Vyborg Shipyard launches lead trawler of Project KMT01 built for Arkhangelsk Trawl Fleet

HHLA and Hyperloop Transportation Technologies establish joint venture

Lukoil and Kazmunaygas establish a consortium on Zhenis project in the Caspian

OOCL announces new Middle East / Indian Subcontinent – East Mediterranean Service (EM3)

Rosatom to start drafting a plan for comprehensive development of NSR infrastructure in 2019

Zio-Podolsk dispatched 4 hydroaccumulators for nuclear-powered icebreaker under construction at Baltic Shipyard

The Grande Torino delivered to the Grimaldi Group

Rosatom forecasts NSR cargo traffic to grow by 60% to 29 million tonnes in 2019

LR strengthens relationship with Canadian Dept. of National Defence

VIII International Forum "Arctic: Today and the Future" opened in St. Petersburg

Maersk sets net Zero CO2 emission target by 2050

Throughput of Port Vysotsky up 9.7% to 7.04 million tonnes in 11M’18

New patrol vessel Dmitry Rogachev arrives in Sevastopol for state trials

Northern Fleet frigate Admiral Gorshkov sails off to the Barents Sea to perform combat training tasks

GTT notified by Samsung Heavy Industries for the tank design of a new LNG carrier for Minerva

Volga Shipping Company closed navigation season 2018

Brent Crude futures price down 1.9% to $60.9, Light Sweet Crude – down 1.73% to $52.33

Rosmorport’s Azov Basin Branch dredged 1.33 million cbm of material in 2018

Bunker prices continue declining at the Port of Saint-Petersburg, Russia (graph)

Baltic Dry Index is up to 1,237 points