News 2019 June 5

VIKING secures offshore helicopter PPE contract

Chinese-Latvian trans-border e-commerce hub sends first container from the Port of Riga

LR and HGS collaborate on digital solutions to benefit shipping

Russian Railways: Loading of export cargo bound for domestic ports up 3.2% to over 132.5 million tonnes in 5M’19

Port of Rotterdam Authority and DeltaPort boost cooperation in North Rhine Westphalia

ASPA lays down non-self-propelled pontoon of Project GRPN for Ark Shipping Company

Intermodal online route planner Navigate now operational in the ports of Gdansk and SOHAR

HHI receives approval for VLCC 'eco-tanker' design

IMO Secretary-General outlines blueprint for blue growth

Coral Expeditions orders second expedition cruise ship from VARD

Meyer Werft holds laid down ceremony for the second cruise ship for Saga Cruises

Wilhelmsen Ship Management acquires 50% stake in NorSea Wind

ABS launches industry-shaping Low Carbon Shipping Outlook

WinGD launches new engines in response to increasing eco-engine demand

Winners of pilot tenders for concession of state stevedores in Olvia and Kherson to register individual companies in Ukraine for implementation of projects

USPA and Brooklyn-Kyiv defined terms for completion of Odesa Sea Port's Berth no. 1-z project

Caspian Flotilla crews launch training for Sea Cup 2019 international contest

RCL, Wärtsilä, and DNV GL announce Navigator of the Seas to feature industry first fire prevention notation

Heavy lift jack-up Apollo completes refit at Damen Shiprepair Dunkerque

Maersk to build its first cold store in St. Petersburg (Russia)

RF Government approves Russia’s environmental safety strategy till 2025

Valdai 45R hydrofoil delivered to Severrechflot

Second phase of Nizhegorodsky hydrosystem project to be approved by 16 September 2019

Cargo traffic within Azov-Don Basin of Russia’s IWWs up 2% to 2.37 million tonnes in 5M’19

Stena Drilling and DNV GL sign contract for first Cyber Secure class notation

Brent Crude futures price is down 0.53% to $61.64, Light Sweet Crude – down 0.8% to $53.05

Bunker prices go down at the port of Saint-Petersburg, Russia (graph)

Baltic Dry Index is up to 1,122 points

MABUX: Bunker Market this morning June, 05