All Heavy Lift & Project Forwarding International articles in April 2011 – Page 3

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    Volga-Dnepr helps develop electronic safety management system

    2011-04-12T00:00:00Z

    April 12 - Volga-Dnepr Airlines has joined forces with Russia's Ulyanovsk State University on a project to develop an electronic system to help prevent air accidents.

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    Year of emergency response charters continues for ACS

    2011-04-12T00:00:00Z

    April 12 - Air Charter Service has started to arrange humanitarian charters to the troubled Ivory Coast [C

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    Greencarrier acquires UK's PTS

    2011-04-12T00:00:00Z

    April 12 - The Swedish-headquartered logistics specialist Greencarrier, which has in recent years expanded substantially within the Nordic countries and the Baltic states, has signed an agreement today to acquire PTS UK Ltd, with the acquisition expected

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    Massive test run starts on Highway 12

    2011-04-12T00:00:00Z

    April 12 - According to local news reports, in one of the USA's most hotly contested heavy lift transports of recent times, Montana and Idaho's departments of transportation have cleared the way for Exxon Mobile's Imperial Oil to haul a 225-tonne test mod

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    Euroports stays quiet

    2011-04-11T00:00:00Z

    April 11 - Euroports, one of the largest port operators in continental Europe, is remaining tight-lipped on reports in the Italian trade media that suggest it is trying to acquire a multi service terminal in Porto Marghera, Italy.

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    Krabbendam goes digital for safety

    2011-04-11T00:00:00Z

    April 11 - HLPFI's handling industry expert columnist Richard L Krabbendam has made all 11 of his popular and educational two-day safety and loading seminars 'Heavy Transport & Lifting' available in digital pdf format in order to allow more and more perso

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    Difficulties did not prevent TPL from delivering the goods

    2011-04-11T00:00:00Z

    April 11 - A catalogue of difficulties - permit denials, a missed sailing and a ten-week effort to secure the go-ahead from 13 French prefectures to permit surface transport - did not prevent freight forwarder Transport & Project Logistics Project (TPL) f

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    NICOLAS INDUSTRIE builds bridges in China

    2011-04-11T00:00:00Z

    April 11 - Self-propelled transport vehicles supplied by NICOLAS INDUSTRIE of France have been involved in the movement of 25,500 tonnes of steel for the construction of a seven-km long bridge over the Yangtze River in China.

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    FESCO ships monster crane

    2011-04-08T00:00:00Z

    April 8 - FESCO Transportation Group is transporting a 1,850-tonne Lampson Model LTL-2600B mobile crawler crane from Kennewick, Washington, through the Port of Everett to the Hunan province in China and will be discharged in Shanghai to assist in nuclear

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    India's MHTC celebrates silver jubilee

    2011-04-08T00:00:00Z

    April 8 - Mumbai-based MHTC Logistics Pvt. Ltd. is today celebrating 25 years in business.

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    GPLN welcomes Bedmet Logistics

    2011-04-08T00:00:00Z

    April 8 - The Global Project Logistics Network (GPLN) has announced the addition of Bedmet Logistic Damian Bednarz Sp.k. for Southern Poland.

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    Shuttlelift marks first anniversary of SB series launch

    2011-04-08T00:00:00Z

    April 8 - A year after it broke ground with the launch of a revolutionary new series of cranes designed to provide state-of-the-art material handling solutions and a broad range of cost-saving benefits, Wisconsin-based Shuttlelift is marking its first yea

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    2011-04-07T00:00:00Z

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    Damco appoints global marketing head

    2011-04-07T00:00:00Z

    April 7 - Third party logistics provider Damco has appointed Christian Bech Hoengaard as global head of marketing at Damco International, based at corporate headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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    ASCO signs GBP20 million (USD20 million) contract with Perenco

    2011-04-07T00:00:00Z

    April 7 - ASCO UK has been awarded a five-year contract extension from Perenco UK.

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    PCN welcomes new USA member

    2011-04-06T00:00:00Z

    April 6 - Project Cargo Network (PCN) has announced Roland International Freight, Inc. (Rolandfreight) as its 4th member in the USA.

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    WWPC appoints Chilean member

    2011-04-06T00:00:00Z

    April 6 - The World Wide Project Consortium has appointed a new member in Chile.

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    Volga-Dnepr delivers equipment for damaged Fukushima nuclear plant

    2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

    April 5 - Volga Dnepr Airlines has completed an urgent delivery from Stuttgart to Japan of a large pump to help in the cooling of the damaged reactors at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

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    Pain in at Project Cargo Network

    2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

    April 5 - Martin Pain has joined the Project Cargo Network (PCN) as office manager and will be taking on the day-to-day responsibilities involved with the running of the PCN HQ in the UK.

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    Blue Water locates key new hire through HLPFI

    2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

    April 5 - If you want the best people (and who in Project Shipping can afford not to?) it pays to use the right media.