News 2019 February 13

Shell and partners start deep-water production at Lula North in Brazil

OLT Offshore LNG Toscana Regasification Terminal works at almost full capacity

Excelerate’s Northeast Gateway Deepwater Terminal reached a peak send-out flow rate

Bunker sales at the port of Singapore in Jan’2019 fell by 8.9% Y-o-Y to 4.12 million tonnes

II HES and Dredging Forum to address deep-water routes to Sabetta and Novoportovsky terminal

Port of Singapore throughput in Jan’2019 fell by 2.4% Y-o-Y to 51.93 million tonnes

Throughput of Russian seaports in Jan'2019 grew by 5.6% Y-o-Y to 67.6 million tonnes of cargo (detalization)

Bank VTB acquired 50 percent minus one share in United Grain Company

NYK conducts crisis-response drill with ONE

DNV GL and Metalships & Docks ink class agreement for luxury sailing vessel

WMU and Japan cooperate on advancing BBNJ discussions

New Freeport of Riga Development Programme provides for expanded port operations

MOL Chemical Tankers and Den Hartogh Logistics form strategic alliance

7 vessels escorted by icebreakers in eastern part of Gulf of Finland during 24 hours on February 12-13

Eneco and Vattenfall open Slufterdam 2.0 wind farm with twice as much power

Throughput of port Riga (Latvia) in Jan’2019 climbed by 2.6% Y-o-Y to 2.8 million tonnes

Net income of TransContainer in 2018 increased by 63.9% YoY to RUB 8.900 million

Throughput of port Kaliningrad in Jan’2019 fell by 17 % Y-o-Y to 1.02 million tonnes

Costa Rica ratifies treaty for enhancing free flow of maritime trade

Bunker prices are flat at the port of Saint-Petersburg, Russia (graph)

Brent Crude futures price is up 0.99% to $63.03, Light Sweet Crude – up 0.98% to $53.62

Aquila Power Catamaran to launch new hydro-glide foil technology option

Royal IHC to tell about world’s first LNG-powered dredgers at II HES and Dredging Congress

Baltic Dry Index is down to 598 points