All Heavy Lift & Project Forwarding International articles in August 2015 – Page 6
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Sonora delivers on schedule
August 12 - Sonora has transported a consignment of building materials, weighing a total of 6,050 tonnes, from Latvia to Sweden.
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Windy work for Europe Cargo
August 12 - Europe Cargo has coordinated the shipment of 45 wind turbine sections for the Wind aan de Stroom project from Vietnam to Belgium.
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India makes cabotage relaxation step
August 12 - The Indian Ministry of Shipping has issued an order relaxing cabotage laws for specialised vessels, such as ro-ro and ro-pax ships, pure car carriers, pure car and truck carriers, LNG vessels and project cargo carriers.
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Rickmers-Linie back in black
August 12 - Rickmers Group has presented its half year results for 2015, posting a 6.6 percent year-on-year improvement in revenue to EUR289.6 million (USD324.5 million), while operating profit surged 35.4 percent to EUR137.4 million (USD153.96 million).
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Carisbrooke goes after eight
August 12 - Carisbrooke Shipping has added eight 8,000 dwt general cargo vessels to its commercial fleet.
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Qatar adds outsize air capacity
August 12 - Qatar Airways Cargo has added a Boeing B747-400 BCF (Boeing converted freighter) to its charter fleet, with a second B747-400 freighter joining the airline in October 2015.
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Cargolux/Oman Air add Indian links
August 12 - The partnership between Cargolux Airlines International and Oman Air will launch a second freighter flight to Chennai, coming online on August 11, 2015, with further expansion into India planned for the near future.
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ABP names McLoughlin
August 12 - Associated British Ports (ABP) has appointed Colin McLoughlin as head of operations at the UK ports of Hull and Goole.
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Record lift at Vogtle
August 11 - The 1,035-tonne CA01 module has been installed in the Unit 3 nuclear island as part of the Plant Vogtle expansion project in Georgia, USA.
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Terex and Konecranes to merge
August 11 - Cranes and materials handling specialists Terex and Konecranes have agreed an all-share merger of equals to form a leading global lifting and materials handling solutions company.
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Rig moves with Element
August 11 - Element International Forwarding & Logistics, based in Turkey, recently handled the shipment of a drilling machine from Mersin to Port Sudan.
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Double-digit growth in Lower Saxony
August 11 - In the first half of 2015, the nine seaports of Niedersachsen (Brake, Cuxhaven, Emden, Leer, Nordenham, Oldenburg, Papenburg, Stade and Wilhelmshaven) have seen a 13 percent increase in volumes from 22.85 million tonnes (January-June 2014) to
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OHT in semi-sub conversion
August 11 - Offshore Heavy Transport (OHT) has completed the conversion of a 123,000 dwt shuttle tanker into its fifth semi-submersible heavy transport vessel, Albatross.
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Edwards barges into Proctor
August 11 - Kentucky headquartered Edwards Moving & Rigging safely completed the delivery of 31 components destined for a gas power plant project in Proctor, West Virginia.
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Cosco repeats Arctic voyage
August 11 - Cosco Shipping's multipurpose vessel Yong Sheng, which completed its first round trip between Asia and Europe via the Northeast Passage in 2013, is making its second voyage along the Arctic shipping lane.
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Straightpoint takes the load off
August 10 - Straightpoint has provided four wireless compression load cells with centre of gravity software to weigh two subsea fabricated platforms at Pentalver's shipping facility at Southampton Docks in the UK.
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Universal returns to Middle East
August 10 - Universal Transport has delivered the second part of a large consignment of cargo for the steel industry from Bucharest, Romania to the Middle East.
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Tuscor Lloyds on the double
August 10 - Tuscor Lloyds has transported an oversize industrial washer unit and distillation module from Castilla de Leon, Spain to the Indonesian port of Jakarta.
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Van der Vlist helps Shell out
August 10 - Van der Vlist has transported a 100-tonne pressure drum from its Moerdijk terminal to Shell's nearby site via a coating facility.
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Gruber cements long project
August 10 - Intertransport Gruber is currently working on an ongoing project to transport cargo for a large cement plant under construction in Volsk, Russia.