News 2018 December 11

ASW Severomorsk of RF Navy's Northern Fleet makes a call to the Republic of Djibouti

Diesel submarine of RF Navy’s Pacific Fleet conducted training exercise in the Sea of Japan

Port of Antwerp International to consult USPA on tariff setting, concession and environmental policy

Van Oord supports the 6th Forum of Dredging Companies as its Sponsor

Yamal LNG reached full capacity

Hapag-Lloyd announces rates from Indian Subcontinent & Pakistan to North Europe

Georgia Ports Authority on track for 4.3M TEUs in 2018

Four new sponsors confirmed to join line-up at 2019’s Maritime Reconnaissance and Surveillance Technology conference

Hapag-Lloyd announces rates from Middle East to North Europe

Draft law on Arctic administration approved in the third reading by Russia’s State Duma

ECSA welcomes the decision by the EU Commission to update the EU list of ship recycling facilities

Global Ship Lease announces new long-term charter agreements with CMA CGM

Maersk Broker Bulk Chartering and Wonsild Dry to merge as of January 2019

Throughput of port Kavkaz in 11M’18 grew by 13% Y-o-Y to 45.61 million tonnes

COSCO SHIPPING Ports and Abu Dhabi Ports inaugurate CSP Abu Dhabi Terminal

Throughput of Russian seaports in 11M’18 grew by 4.2% to 746.81 million tonnes

Alfa Laval sells more than 100 GCU units for LNG newbuilds

Overseas Shipholding Group and American Shipping Company jointly announce extension of tanker charters

One icebreaker escort operation performed in eastern part of Gulf of Finland during 24 hours on December 10-11

The second phase of IMO-implemented safe and sustainable ship recycling project in Bangladesh starts

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

NYK сoncludes long-term charter agreement for three LNG carriers with MC

MAN Cryo and partners develop marine liquid-hydrogen fuel-gas system

Port of Gdansk reports new quarterly record

Brent Crude futures price up 0.37% to $60.19, Light Sweet Crude – up 0.31% to $51.16

Baltic Dry Index is up to 1,385 points