All Heavy Lift & Project Forwarding International articles in April 2009 – Page 3

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    Columbia Helicopters celebrates 40 years of tandem rotors

    2009-04-14T00:00:00Z

    April 14 - Columbia Helicopters, a world leader in heavy lift helicopter operations, is celebrating its 40th Anniversary in the operation of tandem-rotor helicopters.

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    Rail is the answer for SRT

    2009-04-13T00:00:00Z

    April 13 - The services of Specialized Rail Transport (SRT) were recently required by two clients, one wishing to transport a rotary dryer from USA to Canada and the other requiring two 14' storage vessels weighing a total of 563 tonnes lbs to be taken to

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    Cometto names US rep

    2009-04-10T00:00:00Z

    April 10 - Kitchen's Crane & Equipment has been appointed US dealer for the Italian Cometto range of specialised heavy lift transport equipment.

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    Krabbendam takes seminar to Houston

    2009-04-09T00:00:00Z

    April 9 - Anyone planning to visit next month's Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, may wish to consider extending their stay and attending Richard Krabbendam's mini-Seminar on heavy transport and lifting on May 8th.

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    HMS Endurance returns to the UK

    2009-04-09T00:00:00Z

    April 9 - HMS Endurance has arrived back in the UK onboard Dockwise heavy lift semi-submersible vessel, Target.

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    Linde walks like an Egyptian at Legoland Windsor

    2009-04-09T00:00:00Z

    April 9 - Thousands of years after the ancient Egyptians took two decades, thousands of man hours and brute force to build the Great Pyramid at Giza, logistics planners turned to more modern equipment when an Egyptian Pharaoh was required to stand guard a

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    Atlantic Street Capital Acquires EZE Trucking

    2009-04-09T00:00:00Z

    April 9 - Atlantic Street Capital, a private equity firm with a focus on lower middle-market special situation and deep value investments, has acquired EZE Trucking, a leading provider of specialist logistics services for the infrastructure market.

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    Round-trip transformer for Express Transport

    2009-04-08T00:00:00Z

    April 8 - India's Express Transport has successfully completed the round-trip shipment of a 315 MVA transformer weighing 173 tonnes for ABB.

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    Durban awaits gantry cranes

    2009-04-08T00:00:00Z

    April 8 - The specialist Chinese heavy lift vessel, Zhen Hua 23 is scehduled to enter Durban harbour on Friday morning loaded with two rail mounted gantry cranes for the South African port's Pier 1 rail terminal.

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    Salazar plugs wind

    2009-04-07T00:00:00Z

    April 7 - According to reports in the international media, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has said that windmills off the U.S. East Coast could generate enough electricity to replace most, if not all, the coal-fired power plants in the United

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    MarineLink appoints Rohde & Liesenfeld Canada

    2009-04-07T00:00:00Z

    April 7 - MarineLink has announced the appointment of Rohde & Liesenfeld Canada as its non-exclusive agent to market and sell transportation services related to the former's vessel, MarineLink Explorer, as well as the tugs and barges in the MarineLink fle

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    Advance International Transport cements heavy shipment

    2009-04-07T00:00:00Z

    April 7 - International project freight forwarder, Advance International Transport has undertaken the shipment of a cement-making machine and ancillary equipment from the United States to Turkmenistan.

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    WWPC off to Frankfurt

    2009-04-06T00:00:00Z

    April 6 - Heavy lift and project forwarder network, WWPC, will hold its 9th annual conference at the Westin Grand Hotel in Frankfurt, between May 28-30.

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    Sri Lanka project lifts FPS outlook

    2009-04-06T00:00:00Z

    April 6 - Famous Pacific Shipping Lanka (Pvt) Ltd (FPS) is seeing significant volumes of cargo beginning to move following its appointment as the preferred local freight partner by Danish contractor MT H

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    Historic UK shipyard equipment sails for India

    2009-04-06T00:00:00Z

    April 6 - The end of era is truly at hand, with the UK's Port of Tyne witnessing the final departure of the Swan Hunter floating drydock, which Fairstar Heavy Transport, working with Offshore Heavy Transport AS (OHT) successfully loaded at the weekend, al

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    StatoilHydro and Statkraft have awarded a major contract to Master Marine of Norway.

    2009-04-06T00:00:00Z

    April 6 - Scira Offshore Energy Limited, with its 50/50 partners StatoilHydro and Statkraft, has awarded a contract to Master Marine ASA for the planning and installation of 88 wind turbines and 2 substation modules for the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind

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    Dockwise gets its sub

    2009-04-03T00:00:00Z

    April 3 - According to reports in Canada's national press, HMCS Chicoutimi, one of the Canadian military's four submarines, is due to arrive in Victoria, BC, in about 30 days from Halifax aboard one of Dockwise USA's heavy lift ships. The value of the con

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    Noble Denton joins Germanischer Lloyd Group

    2009-04-03T00:00:00Z

    April 3 - Noble Denton and Germanischer Lloyd have merged to form a fully integrated technical assurance and consulting company to serve the worldwide energy industries.

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    Successful cooperation for WWPC members

    2009-04-03T00:00:00Z

    April 3 - WWPC members, Maxlines International and Shanghai Ocean Knight Shipping have cooperated during the shipment of a ship's steel block from Jiangyin port, China to a shipbuilding yard in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

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    New face for Buss Group's corporate communications

    2009-04-03T00:00:00Z

    April 3 - Melanie Moriz has been named as manager, Corporate Communications in the Buss Group, becoming responsible for internal and external communications of the Buss Group which includes Buss Ports, Buss Safelox and Ixocon.