News 2019 February 5

Woodside awards Benthic scarborough geotechinical campagin

Taganrog Sea Commercial Port spent USD 4.5 million for development in 2018, up 2.3 times YoY

Port of Rotterdam launches Port Insight service to track barges

Hapag-Lloyd first in world to convert large container ship to LNG

Russian Railways: Loading of export cargo bound for domestic ports up 3.4% to 26.8 million tonnes in Jan’19

Military arts division of Admiral Makarov University to be reorganized into military education center

Federal Water Resources Agency supports 2nd Hydraulic Engineering Structures and Dredging Congress

The world's first solar-electric sewage pump-out boat is powered by Torqeedo

The world’s first LNG icebreaker, Polaris, fills its tanks with liquefied natural gas in Tornio

Ports of Stockholm reports record volumes in 2018

21 vessels escorted by icebreakers in eastern part of Gulf of Finland during 24 hours on February 4-5

BHP and NYK use GoodFuels biofuel to progress decarbonisation goals

Kia to tap Savannah for Telluride components, Brunswick for export

Final investment decision adopted for construction of floating LNG terminal in Croatia

Tallink Grupp transported 549,278 passengers in Jan’19, down 7.3% YoY

Throughput of port Azov in January’19 is plat YoY at 603,000 tonnes

Bunker prices show mixed movements at the Far East ports of Russia (graph)

Net income of Rosneft totaled RUB 549 bln in 2018, up 2.5 times YoY

Russian Railways carried 374,200 TEUs in January 2019, up 17.9% Y-o-Y

Rosneft’s hydrocarbon production in 2018 grew by 1.3% to 5.80 mmboed

IMO to finalize safe mooring rules

Brent Crude futures price is up 0.46% to $62.8, Light Sweet Crude – up 0.55% to $54.87

Port of Barcelona container traffic up by 15% in 2018

Baltic Dry Index is down to 634 points