News 2023 May 18

bound4blue and Oceanking team up to offer innovative wind-assisted propulsion technology in Greece and Cyprus

Cargo traffic on North-South ITC can reach 35 million tonnes by 2030 — Marat Khusnullin

Svitzer awards a contract to Uzmar Shipyard to build two new TRAnsverse tugs for its Australian business

Russian authorities consider launching of engine building development programme

Daewoo E&C signs MOU with Corio Generation for offshore wind projects

Panama Canal Authority claims success in $671 million arbitration

24 million euros to be allocated for the upgrading of the infrastructure of the Alexandroupolis Port

Astara-Rasht railway to increase transit cargo traffic between Russia and Iran to 15 million tonnes per year — Alexander Novak

Wan Hai Lines to add new call at Colombo in America East Coast service

Saudi Arabia‘s Port of NEOM opens for business

Russia’s fleet of nuclear icebreakers will need at least 1,500 crew members by 2030

MSC sets record as 1st ocean carrier to hit 5 mil TEU in fleet capacity

MABUX: Bunker Weekly Outlook, Week 20, 2023

Contecon Guayaquil S.A. welcomes ZIM’s Colibri Express (ZCX) service

Pacific nations updated on IMO work to reduce emissions from ships

Rosatom and NOVATEK to launch year-round navigation in eastern part of NSR in early 2024

Saipem receives two new offshore contracts for 850 million USD

NSR coastal line to have 11 ports of call from 2023

Near real-time ice monitoring of NSR from space will be fully in place in the next two years

Moscow takes delivery of 6 more electric boats from St. Petersburg

Port of Aberdeen increases its turnover by 17% to £39.2 million in 2022

Port of Hamburg's container throughput down 16.9 percent

The Valencia Containerised Freight Index by 11.3% in 2022

Decision to start building four more conventional icebreakers should be taken in 2023 - Rosatom

ClassNK releases "Guidelines for Electronic Logbooks"

Governments of Russia and Iran sign agreement on construction of Rasht-Astara railway

Octopus High Energy battery system to be installed on board E-Cat for AG Reederei Norden-Frisia

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the extension of the grain deal

Kalmar hands over its first fully electric reachstacker to Cabooter Group