News 2019 January 11

Throughput of Russian seaports in 2018 grew by 3.8% to 816.46 million tonnes

Canaveral Port Authority awards $108.5m contracts for construction of new Cruise Terminal 3 project

WMU announces new COO and VP Academic

UPM is tendering for a pulp terminal in Montevideo deep sea port in Uruguay

Competition Commission conducts investigation into “Hong Kong Seaport Alliance”

Grieg Star and Maas Capital establish joint venture

NIBULON to build a new port complex in Ochakiv

Coast Guard assists aground cargo ship near Virginia Beach

Ust-Luga Container Terminal delivers inaugural shipment of coal-handling services

PGNiG: 2018 – another year of declining gas import volumes from Russia and growing LNG imports

FESCO launches a regular container train from Yiwu, China, to Moscow

CMA CGM to recover Emergency Surcharge for Import Reefer by rail via Montreal

The Royal Navy invites to SMi’s 4th annual Maritime Reconnaissance and Surveillance Technology conference in February

The Finnish Transport Agency is now the Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency

Mitsubishi Shipbuilding holds christening ceremony for next-generation LNG carrier "NOHSHU MARU"

AS Tallinna Sadam reports its 2018 Q4 and full year passenger and cargo flows

Bunker sales at port Vladivostok in 2018 grew by 58% to 1.1 million tonnes

SEACOR Marine acquires three Fast Support Vessels

8 icebreaker escort operations performed in eastern part of Gulf of Finland during 24 hours on January 10-11

Klaveness takes delivery of the MV Baru from New Yangzi Shipyard

Bunker prices surge at the Port of Saint-Petersburg, Russia after holidays (graph)

MOL's newbuilding LNG carrier for JERA named Nohshu Maru

Vostochny Port handled 24.2 million tonnes of export coal in 2018, up 4.3% Y-o-Y

Port of Amsterdam sets new transhipment record in 2018

ESPO welcomes Clune report vote outcome remaining concerned about adding another reporting layer through creation of EU interface

Brent Crude futures price down 0.19% to $61.56, Light Sweet Crude – down 1.07% to $51.8

Baltic Dry Index is down to 1,189 points