All Heavy Lift & Project Forwarding International articles in April 2016 – Page 2
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JAS joins forces with Necotrans
April 26 - JAS Worldwide and Necotrans Holding have formed a global alliance providing freight forwarding and logistics services.
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Dundee development gets under way
April 26 - Site survey works are under way at the Port of Dundee for the proposed new GBP10 million (USD14.6 million) quayside development.
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Modulift in dockside lift design
April 26 - Modulift has supplied a customised below-the-hook solution to marine engineering specialist MAATS Tech for help in lifting an 85-tonne load from the dockside onto a vessel at Hyundai Heavy Industries' shipyard on Mipo Bay in Ulsan, South Korea.
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Enerpac gives Burkhalter a lift
April 26 - Enerpac has been awarded a contract by Burkhalter to extend the height of its 2,000-tonne capacity jack-up system from 20 m to 36 m for future projects.
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Yantai Raffles founder builds two
April 26 - Singapore-based Calm Oceans has begun developing two heavy lift semi-submersible vessels that will be suitable for the construction and decommissioning of offshore platforms, says the company's owner, Brian Chang.
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Baldwins takes Manitowoc pair
April 26 - UK-based crane rental company Baldwins Crane Hire, has purchased the first two Grove GMK5250L cranes in the UK.
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Samson unveils agile slings
April 26 - Samson is to launch its new generation of heavy lift slings - the Agile Lifting System - at the Offshore Technology Conference in May.
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GAC promotes two
April 25 - GAC has appointed Hakan Wester as its new group vice president - strategy and planning, and named Mikael Leijonberg as the group's new chief financial officer.
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Scaldis to lift Flinter ship
April 25 - Dutch shipowner Flinter has signed a contract with a consortium, headed by Scaldis and including DEME, Jan de Nul and Herbosch-Kiere, to remove the wreck of its vessel Flinterstar, which sank in the North Sea following a collision last October.
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Indiana welcomes first ship of season
April 25 - The Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor opened its 2016 international shipping season with the arrival of the bulk carrier, Lubie, which brought steel cargo to the US port from Ijmuiden, the Netherlands.
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Eidesvik in at TTS
April 25 - With immediate effect, Toril Eidesvik has been appointed ceo of TTS Group ASA, succeeding Björn Andersson.
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UECC in Auto Eco launch
April 25 - The first of two new pure car and truck carriers (PCTC) for United European Car Carriers (UECC) has been launched at the NACKS shipyard in Nantong, China.
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Trailers make South African debut
April 25 - ALE's latest range of widening trailers in South Africa are being used for their first job, which involves the transport of eight tugboats from a warehouse to a floating dock in Durban, Kwazulu-Natal.
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BACA adds four to council
April 25 - The Baltic Air Charter Association (BACA) has appointed four executives to its governing council to strengthen the governing body of the association and reflect the makeup of the association's membership.
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German companies add to fleets
April 25 - In Germany, Zimmermann Autokrane, Riga Mainz, Scholpp and Regel have all recently invested in new cranes for their respective fleets.
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A2SEA signs for Arkona
April 25 - From summer 2018, A2SEA will play a key role in building the 385 MW Arkona offshore wind farm for E.ON and Statoil.
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OMA in management buy-out
April 22 - OMA Group's managing director, Gary Miller, and his co-directors, Carine Noukpo and Sam Edmund, have completed a management buy-out of the company from its founder, Captain R.A.M. Jones.
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Bore is more for Spliethoff
April 22 - Rettig Group is divesting its ro-ro shipping company Bore to Dutch shipping company Spliethoff Bevrachtingskantoor with all the activities of the Bore business transferring to Spliethoff, including the shipping line's employees; fleet of nine r
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Weyerhaeuser removal contract awarded
April 22 - The Port of Everett commission has awarded Nickel Brothers with a contract to relocate the historic Weyerhaeuser building from its current location at the US gateway to the port's new Boxcar Park.
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European groups seek uniform approach on container weighing
April 22 - A collective appeal has been made to national authorities by European shippers, freight forwarders, port authorities and terminal operators for a coordinated implementation of the International Maritime Organization's SOLAS convention, which re