News 2019 August 21

BBC Chartering appoints Ulrich Ulrichs as CEO

BPO joined World Ports Sustainability Program

Napier Port’s shares commence trading on the NZX

ZIM announces Q2 2019 results

Waterfront Shipping and Marinvest welcome second-generation low emission methanol-fuelled vessels

CMA CGM announces FAK rates from ISC to North Europe and the Mediterranean

Grady-White Boats honors MaineMax Pensacola as the worldwide sales leader

Hapag-Lloyd launches new South East Asia to Australia Services // SEA and S2A to start in October

Ferry in Estonia upgraded to battery-hybrid by Norwegian Electric System

Organisations release Joint Industry Guidance on the supply and use of 0.50%-sulphur marine fuel

Multipurpose small-draft salvage ship of MPSV12 project left for sea trials

BC Ferries releases first quarter results

DOF awarded two AHTS contracts to support drilling operations in New Zealand

Vladivostok offers second venue of “Import Substitution in Russian Shipbuilding: Ambition and Reality” roundtable

Workshop in Malaysia to help bring into operation the Regional Oil Spill Contingency Plan in South East Asia

Rosneft BOD recommended 1H’19 dividends at RUB 15.34 per share

Registration is underway for “Development of Icebreaking and Support Fleet” conference to be held as part of Neva-2019 exhibition

Ocean Yield extends option with Aker Energy for long-term charter of the FPSO Dhirubhai-1

Rosneft reports 9-pct increase of its 1H 2019 net income to RUB 325 bln

Vasily Boitsov appointed as USC Vice-President for Technological Development

Jan De Nul completes installation of all twenty foundations on the 120MW Formosa 1 Phase 2 wind farm in Taiwan

RF Ministry of Industry and Trade to prevent outflow of shipbuilding contracts from Russian shipyards

Scotline orders newbuild vessel from Royal Bodewes

Brazil readies its biofouling task force

Clean Arctic Alliance calls on Nordic Prime Ministers to support a ban on heavy fuel oil

Bunker market sees mixed price movements at the port of Saint-Petersburg, Russia (graph)

Brent Crude futures price is up 0.48% to $60.32, Light Sweet Crude – up 0.36% to $56.33

Baltic Dry Index is down to 2,059 points

MABUX: Bunker Market this morning August, 21