All Africa articles – Page 33

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    Commission to investigate Transnet

    2016-07-18T00:00:00Z

    July 18 - South Africa's Competition Commission has launched an investigation against state-owned port operator Transnet for excessive pricing and exclusionary practices, in contravention with section 8 of the Competition Act.

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    Global Star gets on track

    2016-07-15T00:00:00Z

    July 15 - Global Star Logistics has coordinated the shipment of 90 railcars from Shanghai, China to Walvis Bay in Namibia.

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    Mammoet delivers drinking water

    2016-07-15T00:00:00Z

    July 15 - Mammoet has transported and installed 16 water tanks, which will supply drinking water to the rural township of Bushbuck Ridge in South Africa.

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    CLA receives second freighter

    2016-07-14T00:00:00Z

    July 14 - CargoLogicAir (CLA) has taken delivery of its first Boeing 747-8 freighter at the Farnborough International Airshow 2016.

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    F.H. Bertling charged by UK's fraud office

    2016-07-14T00:00:00Z

    July 14 - The UK's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has charged F.H. Bertling Ltd, together with seven former and current employees with one count of making corrupt payments contrary to section 1 of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1906.

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    Benin port ups lifting capacity

    2016-07-14T00:00:00Z

    July 14 - APM Terminals Cotonou (Coman) has added two new Liebherr mobile harbour cranes to its terminal at the Port of Cotonou in Benin.

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    GAC wins Pacific Drilling

    2016-07-13T00:00:00Z

    July 13 - Pacific Drilling has appointed GAC North America - Logistics to provide centralised warehousing and distribution services to its two offshore rigs in the US Gulf of Mexico.

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    CLA wins Bloodhound contract

    2016-07-11T00:00:00Z

    July 11 - CargoLogicAir (CLA) has signed a memorandum of understanding to become the air cargo partner for the Bloodhound Project, which is attempting to set a new world land speed record in South Africa in 2017.

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    Boskalis ship attacked in Guinea

    2016-07-08T00:00:00Z

    July 8 - Earlier this week, according to the International Maritime Bureau's Piracy Reporting Centre, six robbers in a boat armed with machine guns and knives boarded an anchored heavy lift vessel - believed to be the Boskalis ship Teal - at Conakry Ancho

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    Globo moves to Malawi

    2016-07-06T00:00:00Z

    July 6 - Globo Distribuidora has coordinated the transport of earthmoving machines from Matadi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to Malawi via the Port of Beira, Mozambique.

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    Collett forges university partnership

    2016-07-06T00:00:00Z

    July 6 - Collett & Sons has partnered with the UK's Leeds Beckett University to develop bespoke software intended to transform the way the transport provider does business.

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    ALE toasts crane work

    2016-07-06T00:00:00Z

    July 6 - ALE's Middle East branch is currently managing the delivery and installation of a variety of port cranes in Kuwait, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Togo and Guatemala.

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    ACS scoops government contract

    2016-07-06T00:00:00Z

    July 6 - Air Charter Service (ACS) has been selected as a supplier for the UK government's humanitarian division - Department for International Development (DFID) - for a two-year period.

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    Haropa welcomes PIL

    2016-07-05T00:00:00Z

    July 5 - Pacific International Lines (PIL) has introduced a weekly service from Haropa's Port of Le Havre in France to the South Pacific region.

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    New partnership to develop airship

    2016-07-05T00:00:00Z

    July 5 - Germany headquartered ultracapacitator developer Skeleton Technologies is joining forces with French company Flying Whales to build a 60-tonne capacity airship for the global transport market.

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    Petrasco makes urgent flight

    2016-07-04T00:00:00Z

    July 4 - Petrasco Energy Logistics has coordinated the delivery of oilfield equipment by air from the UAE to Algeria.

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    Alistair completes diamond job

    2016-07-04T00:00:00Z

    July 4 - Alistair Group has successfully transported two mining screens from Johannesburg, South Africa, to Tanzania.

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    Volga-Dnepr cuts container loading time

    2016-07-01T00:00:00Z

    July 1 - Volga-Dnepr Airlines has transported two power generators to Port Harcourt, Nigeria, using its new wing-lift system, which aims to reduce the loading time for large containers to less than 30 minutes.

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    Agility creates Super JV

    2016-06-30T00:00:00Z

    June 30 - Agility has formed a joint venture with South Africa based supply chain management and transportation specialist, Super Group.

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    Darka adds Sudan shipping link

    2016-06-29T00:00:00Z

    June 29 - Darka Group has launched a new non-vessel operating common carrier (NVOCC) service from Port Sudan to Jebel Ali, UAE.