News 2020 March 10

NORDEN embeds Sea/contracts across Panamax, Supramax and Handy size dry cargo operations

BPA puts all-out effort to prevent COVID-19 introduction to Busan Port

LUKOIL’s IFRS net profit grew by 3.4% in 2019 to RUB 640.2 billion

Vadim Sobko appointed as Managing Director of Vympel Shipyard

Aqaba Container Terminal import container volumes up 13% in Jan-Feb 2020

LR certifies CETENA’s ‘ASSIST’ digital solution for use on Seven Seas Splendor

RF Government appoints 14 members of Russian Railways’ BoD

i4sea signs up as new certified Inmarsat fleet data application provider

Somalia finalises the Shipping Code

KR grants AIP to HHI for LNG dual-fuel car carriers

NIBULON launched second non-self-propelled vessel of B1500 design

BV opens first remote survey center in Rotterdam

CMA CGM announces PSS for reefer cargo from West Med and Adriatic

ABP is part way through £33 million upgrade to Immingham Container Terminal

Diana Shipping announces time charter contract for m/v Sideris GS with Oldendorff

ABB wins system contract for Japan’s first super-size wind turbine installation vessel

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

Somalia's maritime development boosted with completion of shipping code

Average wholesale prices for М-100 HFO grew to RUB 14,025 in RF spot market

Port of Rotterdam Authority awards contract to construct the superstructure of the new Theemsweg Route

Russia's Main Department of State Expertise approves construction of Obskiy LNG terminal in Sabetta

Hamburg welcomes heavy-lift ‘AAL Kembla’ on her first call

IMO Member States declare support for “full and equal rights” for women

GTT becomes a partner of ZEBOX, an incubator and accelerator for startups in the maritime transport

6th Int'l LNG Congress brought together decision makers in Brussels

ABB and DNV GL make history with first vessel cybersecurity verification

NIB and KN sign agreement to finance purchase of FSRU for LNG operations

LNG powered vessel successfully bunkered for the first time in Klaipėda

Aleksandr Isurin joined Delo Group team as President of TransContainer

CMA CGM announces PSS for reefer cargo from North Europe, Scandinavia, Poland and Baltic

MABUX: Bunker market this morning, Mar 10

Shipping 4.0 Reimagined – New tech logs in and on full display at Posidonia 2020

Brent Crude futures price is up 7.33% to $36.88, Light Sweet Crude – up 6.91% to $33.28

Port of HaminaKotka throughput in 2M’2020 fell by 9.8% Y-o-Y to 2.66 million tonnes

Baltic Dry Index is down to 616 points