News 2018 December 26

Throughput of Murmansk Commercial Seaport expected to grow by 3.5% to 16.25 million tonnes in 2018

Arctia’s icebreaker Otso is the season’s first icebreaker in the Bothnian Bay

Maersk announces rates from Far East to East Coast South America

INPEX confirms first LNG cargo from Ichthys LNG Project

EU NAVFOR reports on cooperation with Japan

Ukraine’s water transport carried 0.6 million passengers in 11M’18, up 13.9%, Y-o-Y

Lead supply ship of Project 22420, Ivan Sidorenko, delivered to Gazprom Flot

Admiral Essen frigate of RF Navy’s Black Sea Fleet returns to Sevastopol having completed its missions in the Mediterranean Sea

Pella shipyard launched Russia’s first crab catching vessel Rus, Project 03070

MMHE and TechnipFMC sign a long ‐ term offshore agreement with Saudi Aramco

Presidium of Russia’s Supreme Court supports NMTP in its dispute with FAS over cargo transshipment tariffs

New Suez Canal experienced one of the hardest passage of a reared towed Offshore Support Vessel

Cargo transportation by Ukraine’s water transport declined by 2.1% to 5.3 million tonnes in 11M’18

Maersk increases FAK rates from Far East to North Europe

14 icebreaker escort operations performed in eastern part of Gulf of Finland during 24 hours on December 25-26

Overseas Shipholding Group announces closing of term loan credit facility refinancing

United Shipbuilding Corporation elected Georgy Poltavchenko as Chairman of its Board of Directors

The Snam, Enagás, Fluxys consortium completes acquisition of 66% of DESFA

MAN Energy Solutions opens a new service workshop in Senegal

Keppel secures marine contracts worth around S$300m

Brent Crude futures price down 0.1% to $50.72, Light Sweet Crude – up 0.52% to $42.75

Amsterdam will host Annual LNG Bunkering Summit on 29-31 January 2019

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