All Heavy Lift & Project Forwarding International articles in April 2016 – Page 4
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Volga-Dnepr in the frame
April 19 - Volga-Dnepr Airlines' Engineering & Logistics Centre (ELC) designed a transportation frame to move a 59-tonne compressor from Zurich, Switzerland to Singapore on board an AN-124-100 freighter.
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Work starts on Khalifa pipes facility
April 19 - Al Gharbia Pipe Company (Al Gharbia) has started construction of a new pipe manufacturing facility at Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi (Kizad).
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DOLL unveils panther upgrades
April 19 - DOLL has displayed a four-axle semi low loader trailer from its panther series at the bauma exhibition, which is equipped with a steerable dolly axle fixed to the gooseneck.
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'Difficult times' for Grieg Star
April 19 - Grieg Star states that its open hatch shipping business delivered better results than expected in 2015, posting a loss of USD7 million.
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Blue Water plays Wikinger role
April 19 - Blue Water Shipping is providing port handling, stevedoring and agency services in Lindo and Aalborg for 41 jackets and a number of piles destined for the 350 MW Wikinger offshore wind farm in the German sector of the Baltic Sea.
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ALE jib fabrication begins
April 19 - ALE has started fabrication works for the new heavy-duty jib that will fit onto both the AL.SK190 and AL.SK350 cranes.
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Jaxport steels ahead
April 19 - Stevedoring company Portus has handled the discharge of 42 oversize steel pieces that will form a northeast Florida manufacturing facility at Jaxport's Blount Island Marine Terminal's heavy lift berth.
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Reactor rolls with Lift & Shift
April 18 - Lift & Shift (LSPL) has transported and loaded out a 1,535-tonne Larsen & Toubro (L&T) reactor in Hazira, India, destined for a Sasol plant in the USA.
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Nooteboom presents largest Manoovr
April 18 - Nooteboom presented a ten-axle Manoovr semi low loader at the bauma exhibition with a detachable Multidolly and a maximum payload of 150 tonnes.
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EMS turns on the TAP
April 18 - EMS-Fehn-Group has begun delivering pipes for the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) project, which is scheduled for completion in 2017.
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Hitachi debuts new crawler
April 18 - Hitachi Sumitomo Heavy Industries Construction Crane (HSC) debuted its 350-tonne capacity SCX3500-3 crawler crane at the bauma show in Munich.
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Rickmers considers ship management merger
April 18 - Rickmers Holding and E.R. Capital Holding are reviewing a potential merger of their respective ship management units - Rickmers Maritime Services and E.R. Schiffahrt.
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Take two for Chipolbrok
April 18 - Chinese-Polish Joint Stock Shipping (Chipolbrok) has taken delivery of the second sister ship in a series of four newbuild heavy lift general cargo vessels from Shanghai Shipyard.
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ESTA awards celebrate innovation
April 18 - Around 500 industry professionals attended the ESTA Awards of Excellence 2016, which was held on April 14 alongside the bauma exhibition at Hotel Bayerischer Hof in Munich, Germany.
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Goldhofer launches ADDrive
April 18 - Goldhofer unveiled its first heavy-duty drive unit - the ADDrive - at the bauma exhibition in Munich last week, which it claims combines the benefits of a towed module and self-propelled module.
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GAC studies Northern Sea Route
April 15 - GAC Russia has teamed up with the Far East Development Fund to address the challenges faced by international shipping companies transiting the Northern Sea Route (NSR), and to make this transport corridor more attractive to ship and cargo owner
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Great Yarmouth secures Siemens-Galloper deal
April 15 - Siemens has selected Peel Ports Great Yarmouth as the assembly and installation base for the offshore Galloper Wind Farm project.
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Big year for Philadelphia breakbulk
April 15 - The Philadelphia Regional Port Authority (PRPA) reported its sixth consecutive year of cargo growth, with breakbulk and ro-ro cargoes increasing significantly.
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Kässbohrer back 'home'
April 15 - 23 years after it ceased operations in the city, Kässbohrer has announced that it is re-establishing its presence in its once home town of Ulm, Germany.
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Strong start for Antwerp
April 15 - Freight traffic at the Port of Antwerp got off to a flying start in 2016, the gateway having handled 53.26 million tonnes of cargoes during the first three months of the year, up 3.9 percent over 2015 levels.