News 2019 February 1

Main themes identified for 5th International Arctic Forum

Teesport becomes first port in Northern Powerhouse to gain international quality mark

Throughput of Port Vysotsky up 35.9% to 768,820 million tonnes in 2018

PIL and IBM collaborate to trial Lunar New Year delivery using IBM Blockchain Platform

Arctic LNG 2 and Siemens sign equipment supply contract

First contracts awarded for implementation of fairway adjustment on Lower & Outer Elbe

Port Houston posts strong result in 2018

Regular shipping line to be established for transportation of fish along the Northern Sea Route

GTT receives an order for the tank design of two new LNG carriers

Shipments of dark oil products from Petersburg Oil Terminal grew by 2.2% to 4.6 million tonnes in 2018

ABS launches new Guide for Liquefied Gas Tank Barges with Remote Control and Monitoring of Essential Systems

Sembcorp selects NORDEN for long-term Indian contract

ABS grants AIP for two Dalian Shipbuilding LNG as fuel designs

Gazprom plans construction of LNG production facility with annual capacity of 100,000 tones in Poronaisk

WMU president calls for input to MarTID 2019 survey by 28 February

Project on construction of international sea terminal in Pionersky obtains state expert approval

ONE announces delivery of 14,000 - TEU containership “ONE GRUS”

NYK bulk carrier rescues yachtsman in North Atlantic

28 vessels escorted by icebreakers in eastern part of Gulf of Finland during 24 hours on Jan 31 – Feb 1

Russian Railways' network loading up 1.6% to 105.4 million tonnes in January 2019

NIBULON launched the third POSS-115 Project tug

Turkey ratifies ship recycling convention

Port of Yeisk handled 295,600 tonnes of cargo in January 2019, up 3.3% Y-o-Y

Bunker sales at port Vladivostok in January 2019 grew by 44.5% to 85,700 tonnes

Bunker prices show considerable growth at the Port of Saint-Petersburg, Russia (graph)

Brent Crude futures price is up 0.23% to $60.98, Light Sweet Crude – up 0.13% to $53.85

Baltic Dry Index is down to 668 points

Port of Rotterdam puts Internet of Things platform into operation