News 2019 December 4

North Carolina Ports Chief Commercial Officer retires

Diana Shipping announces time charter contracts for m/v Myrsini with Ausca and m/v Artemis with Koch

Freight turnover of Neva-Metal (Saint-Petersburg) in 11M’19 fell by 1% Y-o-Y to 2.93 million tonnes

ABS presents its innovative work at the annual meeting of the ABS South East Asia Regional Committee

Traficom: new study published on indicative analysis methods used in the control of ships’ ballast water treatment

Port of Gdynia increased container handling by 13% to 750.439 thousand tons in 10M’2019

Nexans, Eversource and Ørsted sign Framework Agreement for North American Offshore Wind Farm development with the opportunity to provide up to 1,000 kilometers of export cable for multiple Ørsted projects till 2027 in United States

Jotun A/S and COSCO Shipping International HK renew JV agreement

Cargo traffic within Azov-Don Basin of Russia’s IWWs down 9% to 9.57 million tonnes in 11M’19

The opening of Port Said tunnel under the Suez Canal provides faster access to SCCT

Port of Gdynia completed modernization and redevelopment of its video surveillance system

Port of Ipswich celebrates new partnership milestone with Metsä Wood UK

Maersk launches new visibility tool “Captain Peter”

ABP appointed new Head of Operations for Humber International Terminal

Moscow Canal completed project on digital mapping of Russia’s inland water ways

Georgia Ports Authority set to exceed 4.6M TEUs for the first time in a calendar year

Russian Maritime Register of Shipping takes part in Marintec China 2019

Crew of IBSV Gennadiy Nevelskoy rescued three men in Sea of Okhotsk

GTT and WISON sign a Technical Assistance and License Agreement for the construction of membrane tank systems

AS Tallink Grupp reports increase of passenger and cargo turnover in November 2019

Russian Railways: Loading of export cargo bound for domestic ports up 3.4% to 281.4 million tonnes in 11M’19

LR collaborates with DSIC and Man Energy Solutions for first ammonia-fuelled ULCS in China

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

Hapag-Lloyd to revise the Currency Adjustment Factor for North Europe as of January 1, 2020

HEP to build the first hydrogen station at the Port of Amsterdam

MABUX: Bunker market this morning, Dec 04

Baltic Dry Index is up to 1,606 points

Lloyd’s Register grants AiP to CMES, CNOOC, DSIC and GTT for LNG dual-fuelled VLCC design

Brent Crude futures price is up 0.74% to $61.27, Light Sweet Crude – up 0.68% to $56.48

Odfjell SE reaches an agreement with Navig8 Chemical Tankers to expands stainless steel chemical tanker pool

Port of Hamburg anticipates positive impact from the EU-Singapore trade agreement

P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences development is declared the best innovative product at Seoul Fair

CMA CGM chooses the port of Marseille-Fos for the bunkering of its future 15,000-TEU vessels

Rodolphe Saadé initiates an international coalition for the energy of tomorrow