News 2019 February 14

Austal's LCS 20 completes acceptance trials

Royal Navy to discuss the future of unmanned and autonomous naval warfare at SMi's 3rd annual Unmanned Maritime Systems Technology 2019

Freight turnover of Neva-Metal (Saint-Petersburg) in January 2019 fell by 26% Y-o-Y to about 190,000 tonnes

MOL Techno-Trade takes part in marine environmental protection program

VTB acquires 100% of Novorossiysk Grain Terminal from NSCP Group

Expert expects uncertainty on global fuel market next week

Port of Virginia container volume up 8.9% to 134,638 TEU in January 2019

“K” Line’s LNGC makes maiden call from Ichthys LNG Project to Naoetsu LNG Terminal in Japan

BSTDB to finance construction of Lavna coal terminal under agreement with STLC

2nd Conference “Dangerous cargoes: new transportation requirements” to be held under the auspices of RF Chamber of Commerce and Industry

ONE renewes own loading record exceeding 19000TEUs

Maersk and PBF Logistics LP announce agreement for production and storage of 0.5% sulphur fuel on the U.S. East Coast

Port of Long Beach volumes decrease 0.1 percent to 657,286 TEU in Jan 2019

Multipurpose Transshipment Complex to be built in Primorsk

Port of Los Angeles volumes up 5.4 percent to 852,449 TEUs in January 2019

Port of Rotterdam throughput volume up to 469.0 million tonnes in 2018

Supply vessel OCEAN COOPER 2 sinks in Singapore waters

Baltic Sea Region cruise ports commit to reducing negative ecological impacts

Bunker prices are flat at the Far East ports of Russia (graph)

Port of Marseille-Fos to deliver the first phase of the subsea cable landing infrastructure by Q3 2019

9 vessels escorted by icebreakers in eastern part of Gulf of Finland during 24 hours on February 13-14

GTT receives an order from Samsung Heavy Industries for the tank design of a new LNG Carrier for Minerva Gas

Brent Crude futures price is up 0.66% to $64.03, Light Sweet Crude – up 0.58% to $54.21

Baltic Dry Index is up to 608 points

ABB to power Iceland’s first electric ferry ABB to power Iceland’s first electric ferry