All Asia articles – Page 312

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    Mundra Port builds project cargo capabilities

    2009-04-15T00:00:00Z

    April 15 - India's Mundra Port and Special Economic Zone Ltd (MPSEZL) is developing as a facility for the handling of over dimensional and heavy project cargoes in India.

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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Almajdouie moves evaporators for Marafiq Project

    2009-04-03T00:00:00Z

    April 3 - Almajdouie Heavy Lift Transport and Engineering (MHL) has transported super heavy and oversize evaporator modules from Bilfal Heavy Industry to Marafiq IWPP Project Site in Jubail.

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    What's happened to trade credit? asks International Chamber of Commerce

    2009-04-02T00:00:00Z

    April 2 - The International Chamber of Commerce is urging the G20 nations to take action to fight protectionism and support trade finance to keep trade flowing.

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    SAL opens representative office in Italy

    2009-03-31T00:00:00Z

    March 31 - A SAL Italy representative office has been established based in the Genoa office of "K" Line (Europe) to provide marketing, sales representation and direct communication with SAL's clients in the country.

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    SAL opens representative office in Italy

    2009-03-31T00:00:00Z

    March 31 - A SAL Italy representative office has been established based in the Genoa office of "K" Line (Europe) to provide marketing, sales representation and direct communication with SAL's clients in the country.

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    SBS Worldwide meets over-dimensional challenge

    2009-03-30T00:00:00Z

    March 30 - Independent forwarder and logistics company, SBS Worldwide rose to the challenge when an existing client in Scotland advised of an over-dimensional consignment that needed to be moved to Singapore.

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    Paradip port expects more project cargoes

    2009-03-30T00:00:00Z

    March 30 - According to reports in the Indian media, Paradip port, Orissa's only major port, is anticipating increased volumes of project cargoes.

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    Mediterranean Project Chartering on the move

    2009-03-27T00:00:00Z

    March 27 - Mediterranean Project Chartering (MPC), the wholly-owned subsidiary of BBC Chartering & Logistic, is moving head office in Genoa.

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    Commercial team boosted

    2009-03-27T00:00:00Z

    March 27 - Feedback from our readership, which includes over 7,000 shippers, shipping lines, ports and project freight forwarders all over the world, indicates that Heavy Lift & Project Forwarding International is establishing itself as the must-read publ

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    Singapore Harbour shows sign of the times as capacity laid up

    2009-03-26T00:00:00Z

    March 26 - A colleague was taken aback when he saw the images of the ships laid up at Singapore Harbour because falling demand has made them unprofitable to operate.

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    Agility revenues up

    2009-03-25T00:00:00Z

    March 25 - Agility has reported profits of US$526 million in 2008, compared to US$531 million in 2007, while revenue rose 16 percent to US$6.8 billion.

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    New trailer from Tiandi

    2009-03-23T00:00:00Z

    March 23 - China's Tiandi Heavy Duty Industrial Group, which specialises in the research, development and manufacture of heavy duty transport and construction equipment, has recently introduced its new platform-type modular trailer with higher gross loadi