News 2023 January 10

Canadian Coast Guard accepts delivery of two more Bay Class high-endurance search and rescue lifeboats

Equinor awarded 26 new production licences on the Norwegian continental shelf

Container traffic on Russian Railways’ network in 2022 rose by 0.3% YoY to 6.52 million TEU

DHT Holdings announces $305 million financing

Composit supports 10th Forum of Dredging Companies at Hydraulic Engineering and Dredging Congress as its Sponsor

KSOE to develop fuel cells for ships and power generation and secure eco-friendly hydrogen production technology - BusinessKorea

The largest passenger terminal in the Philippines to open in February 2023

United Shipbuilding Corporation starts changing its management system

Port of Corpus Christi encouraged by DOE to submit full application for Hydrogen Hub proposal

New transport and logistics center in Primorye to ensure handling of 88,000 TEU in 2025

MSC container ship remains grounded at one of Italy’s largest container ports - Marine Insight

Sembcorp Marine delivers final zero-emission battery-powered RoPax to Norled - Offshore Energy

Ocyan and LZ Energia appoint DNV technical advisor for hydrogen conversion of diesel drilling rigs

VSC container terminal obtains status of Free Port of Vladivostok resident

Brazilian President discards the privatisation of the main port complexes and renames the Port of Santos - Seatrade

Brazil guarantees fuel supplies, moves to protect refineries from protesters - S&P Global

Admiral Gorshkov conducts air defence exercise in Norwegian Sea

MOL announces new series name and new hull color design for LNG-fueled car carriers

KSK Grain Terminal shipped 5.9 million tonnes of export grain in 2022, up 24.2% YoY

Frontline terminates combination agreement with Euronav

RS issues Rules for Classification and Construction of remotely operated vehicles

ClassNK releases amendments to class rules

A.P. Moller - Maersk announces new executive leadership team

ClassNK issues world’s first AiP for Ammonia Floating Storage and Regasification Barge

Port Esbjerg adds Liebherr crane - HLPFI

USC head Aleksey Rakhmanov elected as Acting General Director of Vyborg Shipyard

Convoys of ships to be assisted by icebreakers in the eastern part of the Gulf of Finland will be formed at Buoy No4 of the Large Fairway

Unipec again becomes the top tanker spot charterer in 2022 - Poten

This year’s first business networking event in the industry, Shipping Team, to be held in St. Petersburg on Jan’31

Aker Solutions wins Rosebank FPSO contract from Altera Infrastructure

China Classification Society assists the world’s largest shallow draft LNG carrier to complete its sea trial

Scandlines reduces the energy consumption of the Rostock ferries by 11 percent