All Asia articles – Page 304

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    Swire Shipping New Zealand commences operations

    2009-09-03T00:00:00Z

    September 3 - Swire Shipping New Zealand has commenced operations and assumed the trade management responsibilities of Tasman Orient Line (TOL) and Swire Shipping's Trans-Tasman Service as well as the liner shipping agency activities of Quadrant Pacific A

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    Busy month for Ahlers

    2009-09-03T00:00:00Z

    September 3 - August was no holiday period for Ahlers Forwarding.

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    Blue Water brings rock-crushing equipment to Azerbaijan

    2009-09-02T00:00:00Z

    September 2 - Azerbaijani project cargo forwarder Blue Water is undertaking a year-long project to supply vital rock-crushing machinery to the country's ore extraction industry from the US.

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    Fifth birthday for Global Project Logistics Network

    2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

    September 1 - The Global Project Logistics Network (GPLN), the large network of independent international project logistics specialists and charterers, has now turned five years old.

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    Kuebler's role in world record air freight uplift

    2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

    September 1 - Spedition Kuebler, a member of the Cargo Equipment Experts (CEE) network, helped Frankfurt-Hahn airport claim aviation history by dispatching the heaviest single cargo item seen via airfreight.

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    WWPC adds new exclusive member for Jordan and Iraq

    2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

    September 1 - Seven Seas Shipping Co, based in Amman, Jordan, has been appointed as the exclusive member of the Worldwide Project Consortium (WWPC) in Jordan and Iraq.

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    Revised delivery schedule for RollDock newbuilds

    2009-08-29T00:00:00Z

    August 29 - RollDock, the Dutch heavy lift shipping company launched a couple of years ago, has issued a revised delivery schedule for the innovative new ships that it has on order at L&T Shipping in India.

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    Record profits for Tiong Woon

    2009-08-28T00:00:00Z

    August 28 - Singapore-based Tiong Woon, a leading, one-stop integrated services provider of infrastructure businesses for the oil and gas, petrochemical, power and construction industries, has announced record profits for its financial year ending 30 June

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    Heavy lift bonus for Panalpina

    2009-08-28T00:00:00Z

    August 28 - High and heavy activities are not a core activity for global forwarder Panalpina's airfreight arm but at present the sector is proving a lifeline in the current economic misery faced by the global freight forwarding industry.

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    Advance shows its bottle in Poland

    2009-08-28T00:00:00Z

    August 28 - International freight forwarder, Advance International Transport, is working on a major project freight management contract on behalf of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), shipping thousands of tonnes of machinery and material to support the c

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    POST holed

    2009-08-27T00:00:00Z

    August 27 - (By Dale Crisp) Asia-Australia breakbulk and project veteran Pacific Orient Sea Transport (POST) has ceased trading after falling victim to high period charter rates, aggressive competition and the regional impact of the global financial crisi

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    BDP Project Logistics opens in Abu Dhabi

    2009-08-27T00:00:00Z

    August 27 - BDP Project Logistics, a wholly owned subsidiary of BDP International based in Singapore, has opened an office in Abu Dhabi.

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    New Braemar subsidiary targets project cargoes

    2009-08-24T00:00:00Z

    August 24 - Project cargo pre-shipment surveys will be a core service provided by Braemar Marine, a new subsidiary launched by Braemar Shipping Services.

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    Date for your diaries: India Shipping Summit

    2009-08-21T00:00:00Z

    August 21 - The India Shipping Summit is to be held for the fifth time in Mumbai and is expected to provide topics and discussions relevant to anyone involved in OOG and heavy oceanfreight operations on opportunities within the Indian energy sector, marit

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    Martin Bencher opens for business in Dalian

    2009-08-21T00:00:00Z

    August 21 - The Martin Bencher Group has opened a new regional office in Dalian, in response to increased activity in North East China.

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    Cargoes keep rolling for ALS

    2009-08-21T00:00:00Z

    August 21 - As it celebrates its 30th anniversary, ALS continues to see a diverse array of heavy and over-dimensional cargoes.

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    Bye, bye, BC: thanks to Dockwise

    2009-08-20T00:00:00Z

    August 20 - Local Canadian media reports indicate that a Dockwise semi-submersible heavy lift ship will help draw a line under a political scandal in British Columbia.

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    Logwin carries tank on the Danube

    2009-08-18T00:00:00Z

    August 18 - Logwin, the international logistics service provider, has transported a special 13 tonne tank by barge from Regensburg in Germany to Cernavoda in Romania for manufacturer Passavant Roediger GmbH.

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    Cargotec merges Hiab and Kalmar; renames business areas

    2009-08-18T00:00:00Z

    August 18 - Following the recent merger of its Hiab and Kalmar business activities, Cargotec has formed two business areas: Marine, which comprises current MacGregor business area, and Industrial and Terminal, which comprises current Hiab and Kalmar busin

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    New equipment delivered to new Vietnam gateway

    2009-08-17T00:00:00Z

    August 17 - Saigon Premier Container Terminal (SPCT) has taken delivery of four rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) cranes and two quay cranes, the first of three major deliveries expected from Shanghai-based crane manufacture Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries, for