News 2020 January 10

Hamburg Port Authority orders two more fire-fighting vessels

TMA Logistics wins contract for storage and transhipment for Siemens Gamesa

Bunker sales at Vladivostok port in 2019 grew by 53% to 1.69 million tonnes

DFDS takes delivery of fourth 6,695-lanemetre mega-freighter

Damen Maaskant Shipyards Stellendam coordinating multi-party hybrid and electric propulsion research project

ClassNK releases Guidelines for Automated/Autonomous Operation of ships

Port of Amsterdam sees a record transhipment in 2019

Maersk Drilling secures contract for Maersk Valiant offshore Colombia

Maersk starts new service to Gijón

SGRE named preferred supplier for largest U.S. offshore wind power project

Throughput of Port Vysotsky in 2019 down 20.2% YoY to 6.30 tonnes

Finnlines places order for Superstar 5,100 lm Ro-Pax duo with a China Merchants Group's shipyard

Port of Liepaja (Latvia) handled 7.33 million tonnes of cargo in 2019, down 2.7% Y-o-Y

Throughput of port Azov in 2019 fell by 20% to 10.38 million tonnes

MOL and China COSCO Shipping's second LNG carrier for Yamal LNG project named LNG MERAK

CPC Marine Terminal set annual loading record of 63.25 million tonnes, up 3.5% YoY

Diana Shipping announces time charter contract for m/v Ismene with Phaethon

Hapag-Lloyd implements GRI from East Asia to USA and Canada

Mitsubishi Shipbuilding holds christening and launch ceremony in Shimonoseki for second passenger/cargo ship for Hankyu Ferry

Petrobras to avoid the transit through the Strait of Hormuz

MABUX: Bunker market this morning, Jan 10

Lubrizol whitepaper identifies VLSFO engine condition challenges

Transocean announces $352.9 mln in new rig contracts

Throughput of Rostov-on-Don port in 2019 fell by 4.7% Y-o-Y to 22.95 million tonnes

Russian Railways: Loading of export cargo bound for domestic ports up 3.6% to 308.8 million tonnes in 2019

Baltic Dry Index is down to 772 points

Brent Crude futures price is down 0.31% to $65.17, Light Sweet Crude – down 0.32% to $59.37

CMA CGM, COSCO SHIPPING, Evergreen and OOCL to launch the Ocean Alliance Day 4 Product