News 2020 January 17

Safe Bulkers refinances $105.2 mln of existing loan facilities with respect to eight vessels

Construction of Borssele 1+2 wind farm off Zeelandic coast begins

Murmansk Sea Fishing Port handled 263,500 tonnes of cargo in 2019, down 20.4% Y-o-Y

Wärtsilä solutions support environmentally sustainable performance for two new MSC Cruises's ships

BIMCO expands ice information service

A record year for cruise expected at Port of Southampton

Qatargas delivers first Q-Flex LNG cargo to Summit LNG FSRU in Bangladesh

Tallink Grupp sets group-wide CSR strategy and sustainable operations goals

RUB 127.57 billion of federal budget allocations approved for construction of Leader-class icebreaker

Dublin Port unitised trade up 3.6% in 2019

Seaspan Shipyards hosts ceremonial keel laying for the Royal Canadian Navy’s future Joint Support Ship

RF Navy's Black Sea Fleet minesweeper makes planned transition from Sevastopol to Mediterranean Sea

Diana Shipping announces time charter contract for m/v Astarte with Aquavita

Turnover of DeloPorts terminals in 2019 decreased by 5% YoY to 8.3 mln tonnes

SAAM agrees to acquire 70% of Intertug, a towage operator in Colombia, Mexico and Central America

Flex LNG announces extension of the time-charter agreement for Flex Enterprise

Kawasaki Heavy Industries delivers bulk carrier FJ VIOLA

Hapag-Lloyd signs space charter agreement with Maersk and MSC on the Asia-North Europe trade

Russian Maritime Register of Shipping reports its key 2019 results

Pyxis Tankers announces completion of sale of Pyxis Delta

KHI delivers LPG carrier PHOENIX GAIA

Throughput of Vostochny Port grew by 5.2% to 25.51 million tonnes in 2019

Eagle Bulk Shipping joins Getting to Zero Coalition

MABUX: Bunker market this morning, Jan 17

NYK agrees to MoU with Northern Offshore Group on partnership for crew transfer vessel business for offshore wind power generation systems

Brent Crude futures price is down 0.05% to $64.59, Light Sweet Crude – down 0.03% to $58.5

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

Baltic Dry Index is flat at 768 points

NYK and Van Oord sign MoU to own and operate offshore wind installation vessels in Japan