News 2020 April 22

Nauti-Craft and OFFCON enter into a Development and License Agreement

Med Marine holds keel-laying ceremony for Svitzer’s ice breaking tugs

Transit navigation opened in Volga Basin

Qatar Petroleum enters agreement that could reach QR 11 billion to reserve LNG shipyard capacity in China

Teaching moves online at World Maritime University amid pandemic

Norwegian shipping companies lost nearly 25 percent in turnover due to Covid-19

VIKING adds Hellenic Navy SAR duties to RIB reference list

ForSea continue to be a fast and reliable Freight service between Denmark and Sweden

DP World launches worldwide digital platforms

Cyber-MAR research activities continue via distance

APM Terminals Nigeria supports country’s COVID-19 response

Tallink Grupp cooperates with dSign Vertti Kivi & Co

Van Oord’s vessel completes the installation of 77 foundations for the Borssele III & IV wind farm

Crowley takes delivery of ATB dedicated to Alaska fuels service

Onezhsky Shipyard held steel cutting ceremony for first crab catching ship ordered by Russian Crab Group

Maqta Gateway expands its digital logistics marketplace “MARGO” with new warehouse storage offering

Multipurpose rescue vessel built by Nevsky Shipyard took part in exercises

CMA CGM cancels PSS from East Med & Black Sea to Indian Subcontinent

Marine Recruiting Agency doubled number of trainees in 1Q’2020

Joint ESG-MPA-MAS statement: No serious impact on oil trading and bunkering sectors; banking system remains sound

Oil prices fall by 6.5-15%

ABS first in industry to offer majority of annual class surveys remotely

LR to class new multi-role ships for Federal German Government

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

Volume of freight transport has remained high on Viking Line ships despite exceptional circumstances

Alexeev’s Hydrofoil Design Bureau launched yet another Valdai 45R hydrofoil

Baltic Dry Index is down 3.83%

MABUX: Bunker market this morning, Apr 22