December 17 - Austrian forwarder Gebr
Gebrüder Weiss and Diehl have been cooperating since the 1990s and in 2010 GW took a 25 percent share in the business. Following the successful takeover, all of Diehl's facilities and business documents will be adapted to the GW orange design in the coming days.
Ireland’s Rosslare Europort has been selected to receive EUR19.2 million (USD22.5 million) from the European Commission’s Connecting Europe Facility (CEF).
Transport engineering and heavy lift specialist Mammoet will assist fellow Dutch firm Heerema Marine Contractors with the installation of two giant topsides for TenneT’s 2 GW offshore platforms project.
Germany’s heavy transport and industry lobby group Verbändeinitiative Grossraum und Schwertransporte (VI-GST) has sent an updated position paper to the recently elected federal government in Germany, to ensure that it delivers on promised improvements to the country’s heavy and abnormal transport regulations.
Bremen port and logistics association BHV has appointed Carsten Wendt, head of sales for high and heavy and breakbulk at Wallenius Wilhelmsen, to its executive board.
Empire Energy and UK-based heavy lift consultancy Ellevo Group formed a strategic joint venture to meet the evolving demands of the offshore wind industry: Empire Energy–Ellevo (e³).
Singapore-headquartered Swire Shipping has opened a second office in Japan, adding Nagoya to its pre-existing premises in Tokyo.
