Rhenus snaps up Rodair Group
March 19 - Rhenus Group has acquired Canadia-based logistics solutions provider Rodair.
Views: 163
HLPFI | Latest News
CMA nears 90 percent stake in Ceva
March 19 - France-headquartered container shipping line CMA CGM is on course to control 89.47 percent of the shares in Swiss freight forwarder Ceva Logistics following a public tender.
Views: 138
Straightpoint launches Bluelink
March 19 - Straightpoint has introduced its Bluelink load cell – a 6.5-tonne capacity mechanical force measurement cell that incorporates Bluetooth technology.
Views: 137
GMTC in re-export project
March 19 - Kuwait-based Gulf Maritime General Trading & Contracting (GMTC) has coordinated the re-export of 3,000 tonnes of out-of-gauge cargo (OOG) from Kuwait to Bangladesh.
Views: 162
Cometto makes trailer deliveries
March 19 - Cometto has delivered a 216-tonne payload capacity SYT 4/2 shipyard transporter to Italy’s Fincantieri.
Views: 198
Hill Dickinson makes senior appointments
March 19 - Maritime law practice Hill Dickinson has made a series of high-level appointments.
Views: 216
Business | Mergers and acquisitions | Forecasts | Investments | Appointments | Archive
Hojland up at Saudia Cargo
March 18 - Saudia Cargo has appointed Per Hojland as executive director, cargo operations worldwide.
Views: 250
Charter rates hold steady
March 18 - Time charter rates in the multipurpose shipping sector have remained flat over the last month, according to the latest data from shipbroker Toepfer Transport.
Views: 353
Hamilton on acquisition trail
March 15 - Bermuda-based Hamilton Insurance Group has signed a definitive agreement with Liberty Mutual Group to acquire the Pembroke Managing Agency platform at Lloyd’s and Ironshore Europe DAC (IEDAC).
Views: 849
Sectors | Shipping | Overland | Logistics | Airfreight | Ports and terminals | Networks | Archive
BigLift teams up with CY
March 18 - The Netherlands-based BigLift Shipping has agreed to cooperate with South Korea’s Chung Yang Shipping (CY) in the heavy transport sector.
Views: 409
Taqa picks Jumbo
March 18 - Taqa Energy has selected Jumbo to perform an offshore decommissioning project in the North Sea.
Views: 329
BIMCO hosts Law Academy
March 18 - The Baltic and International Maritime Council (BIMCO) has introduced a week-long training course covering international maritime law and its relationship with international trade, shipping and marine insurance.
Views: 294
Projects | Archive
Jumbo hops to Kwinana
March 14 - In late 2018, Jumbo’s heavy lift vessel Fairpartner lifted and shipped two eco hoppers, each weighing 270 tonnes each, from Vlissingen in the Netherlands on behalf of machinery manufacturer Breston.
Views: 997
Collett starts Clocaenog Forest deliveries
March 14 - Collett & Sons is handling the delivery of turbine components for Innogy’s Clocaenog Forest onshore wind farm in north Wales.
Views: 761
Höegh handles shore crane shipment
March 13 - Höegh Autoliners has handled the shipment of a 400-tonne lifting capacity shore crane from the port of Ennore, India to port Freeport in the USA.
Views: 1019
ABC in motor move
March 13 - AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has delivered an ABB motor from Västerås in Sweden to Shanghai, China, on behalf of Greencarrier Freight Services.
Views: 1008
Insight | Special topic: Sulphur 2020 | Archive
One month left to enter the Heavy Lift Awards 2019
March 12 - There is now one month remaining to get your entries in for the Heavy Lift Awards 2019, which will take place on October 15 at the Hilton hotel in Antwerp.
Views: 969
Wallenius Wilhelmsen joins CSA 2020
March 8 - Wallenius Wilhelmsen has joined the Clean Shipping Alliance 2020 (CSA 2020), increasing the organisation's membership to 35 shipowners operating a combined fleet of almost 2,500 vessels.
Views: 1732
Opportunities in emerging markets
March 6 - The logistics industry forecasts that emerging markets will grow at a healthy rate of 5 percent in 2019 but many executives are bracing for a crisis, according to Agility’s emerging market index.
Views: 1552
Equipment
Cranes | Heavy haulage | Under the jib | Jacks, skates & rollers | Software | Strapping & lashing | Packing & crating | Archive
DNV GL rolls out remote surveys
March 15 - DNV GL said that all of the vessels it classifies can now be surveyed remotely via its Veracity data platform.
Views: 768
Sarens updates STCS tool
March 15 - Sarens has released an updated version of its SPMT stability calculation tool, designed to evaluate static and dynamic axle loading and tipping angles, as well as ground bearing pressures and trailer bending.
Views: 676
Pintsch Bubenzer expands US team
March 15 - Pintsch Bubenzer has strengthened its sales team in the USA with the appointment of Mike Sparks and Jim Fields.
Views: 606
Latest news from Heavy Lift & Project Forwarding International
Heavy Lift & Project Forwarding International (HLPFI) is firmly established as the leading media presence for professionals involved in the logistics of over-dimensional and heavy cargoes.
READ MORE
Written by an international team of award-winning journalists, HLPFI delivers essential information about the movement of such cargoes across the whole range of transport modes.
First published in 2007, HLPFI now has a distribution of over 19,500, delivered to owners and operators of heavy lift equipment and facilities, specialist freight forwarding companies, as well as shipping and logistics managers working for EPCs, and companies involved in the development of infrastructure for energy, mining, civil engineering, oil and gas, offshore, and industrial manufacturing facilities.