News 2019 January 16

Kongsberg Gruppen enters into an agreement with Rome AS to divest Kongsberg Evotec

Seaspan Corporation announces the closing of the second tranche of the $1 billion aggregate investment commitment by Fairfax

INEOS, Europe’s largest petrochemicals company, announces Antwerp as the location for its new ground breaking 3 billion Euro petrochemical investment

Throughput of Rostov-on-Don port in 2018 grew by 11.5% Y-o-Y to 24.1 million tonnes

Rolf A. Sandvik resigns as CEO of The Fjords

Digging begins in construction of new Antarctic wharf

Throughput of Russian seaports in 2018 grew by 3.8% Y-o-Y to 816.5 million tonnes (detalization)

IMO’s polar communication and navigation equipment guidance to be finalized

COSCO Shipping Lines launches Ocean Alliance 2019 service products

Ice restrictions at Passenger Port of Saint-Petersburg come into effect on January 25

Realogis publishes market report on the letting of logistics properties and industrial sites in the greater Hamburg area for 2018

Ice restrictions at Big Port of St. Petersburg come into effect on January 25

Verifavia Shipping cements leadership position for EU MRV and IMO DCS IT system certification

Throughput of Makhachkala Commercial Sea Port almost doubled in 2018 to 2.5 million tonnes

Houston, Texas will host the 3rd LNG USA Summit on 26-27 February 2019

Milan, Italy will host the 2nd Small-Scale LNG Summit on 12 February 2019

CHARLES ANDRÉ Group and Dunkerque-Port join forces to develop combined transport service from Dunkerque

Société Générale and MPA Singapore join SEA\LNG Board

Vladivostok Sea Fishing Port handled 4.54 million of cargo in 2018, up 14% Y-o-Y

VEB team got acquainted with Zvezda SBC production

ABS Advanced Solutions and Fleet Management Limited partner on cyber security

Engineers from Far Eastern Federal University provide scientific support of dry dock construction at Zvezda shipyard

Bunker prices at the Port of Saint-Petersburg, Russia show no significant changes (graph)

Port of Oakland cargo volume hit all-time high in 2018

3 icebreaker escort operations performed in eastern part of Gulf of Finland during 24 hours on January 15-16

​IMO Secretary-General highlightes the need to consider seafarer training and standards

Fincantieri to build a new ship for Regent Seven Seas Cruises

Brent Crude futures price down 0.02% to $60.57, Light Sweet Crude – down 0.03% to $51.97

CMA CGM OCEANIA LINES - PAD service to resume weekly rotations

Baltic Dry Index is down to 1,096 points