News 2020 February 4

North P&I Club launches digital tool to help shipping stay up to date with coronavirus outbreak

Damen Shipyards congratulates the Mexican Navy for the flagging and entering into service of their new dredgers

Vinalines eyes to join Global Shipping Alliances

RF Ministry of Industry and Trade starts drafting legislation amendments for autonomous navigation

Chomarat, shortlisted for a JEC Innovation Awards with G-Flow™, a structural flow media developed in partnership with Groupe Beneteau

DNV GL FuelBoss platform creates new online hub for LNG bunkering

Baltic Exchange and Freightos Group unleash shipping market visibility with first daily container freight index

Ocean Infinity launches a new pioneering marine technology and data company, Armada

Russia's Main Department of State Expertise approved construction of TERMINAL bunkering base at port of Murmansk

Petersburg Oil Terminal transshipped 7.9 million tonnes of oil products in 2019, up 2.6% YoY

Centurion selects Novigo for their end-to-end digital enterprise transformation with SAP S/4HANA

GTNS supports 3rd Technical Conference "Modern Solutions for Hydraulic Engineering" as its Sponsor

Zamakona Yards launches the first of the two 69 m reefer vessels

Stroytransgaz to preserve hydraulic engineering structures of Pionersky terminal

Bunker market at the Far East ports of Russia sees mixed price movements (graph)

Port of Gothenburg to request a Maritime Declaration of Health from all calling vessels

Throughput of port Azov in January 2020 fell by 39% to 366,000 tonnes

CMA CGM announces PSS for cargo from North Europe to Indian Sub-continent

Dutch Police continues fleet replacement with second Damen patrol vessel

IMO's Sub-Committee on Ship Design and Construction meeting focused on ship stability criteria

CMA CGM announces FAK rates from North Europe to Asia

AS Tallink Grupp published its statistics for January 2020

LUKOIL Group's average hydrocarbon production in 2019 grew by 1.4% YoY to 2.35 million boe per day

MABUX: Bunker market this morning, Feb 04

Bunker sales at Vladivostok port in January 2020 grew by 20% to 102,700 tonnes

Brent Crude futures price is up 0.57% to $54.76, Light Sweet Crude – up 0.88% to $50.55

Baltic Dry Index is down to 466 points