Europe news – Page 213

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    Landstar expands with new centre

    2017-01-20T00:00:00Z

    January 20 - Landstar System has opened its new US/Mexico logistics service centre in Laredo, Texas.

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    Nichol joins Greece team

    2017-01-19T00:00:00Z

    January 19 - The UK P&I Club has promoted risk assessor David Nichol to regional loss prevention executive for the Greece region.

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    Growth in Great Lakes

    2017-01-19T00:00:00Z

    January 19 - The Port of Hamilton revealed its 2016 figures for heavy lift items, showing a 6.7 percent increase on the five-year average.

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    ROG's big upgrade

    2017-01-18T00:00:00Z

    January 18 - Rotterdam Offshore Group (ROG) has started to upgrade its facilities in the Waalhaven, Rotterdam.

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    Petro Sea Logistics invests in all-terrain crane

    2017-01-18T00:00:00Z

    January 18 - Petro Sea Logistics, a joint venture between Belgium's Sea-Invest and Ivory Coast's Petroci, has added a Manitowoc Cranes' Grove GMK6400 crane to its fleet.

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    Italians seek uniform haulage rules

    2017-01-18T00:00:00Z

    January 18 - Paolo Uggè, head of the Italian road haulage association Conftrasporto, has sent a letter to the Italian transport minister Graziano Delrio asking for clear and precise rules for transport of out-of-gauge (OOG) cargoes on the nation's road ne

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    Thorco Projects and MC-Schiffahrt form shipping pool

    2017-01-17T00:00:00Z

    January 17 - Thorco Projects has teamed up with MC-Schiffahrt to create a new shipping pool, which starts with a fleet of 14 ships - six 10,500 dwt multipurpose vessels from the latter and eight comparable vessels from the former.

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    Italy's Navemar hits the buffers

    2017-01-17T00:00:00Z

    January 17 - Navemar of Italy is the latest company to fall victim to the shipping downturn, writes HLPFI's Italian correspondent, Nicola Capuzzo.

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    Antwerp finishes 2016 with growth

    2017-01-17T00:00:00Z

    January 17 - The Port of Antwerp handled a total freight volume of 214.06 million tonnes in 2016, up 2.7 percent on the previous year.

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    Industry prepares for widespread consolidation

    2017-01-17T00:00:00Z

    Consolidation was the word on everybody's lips at the Breakbulk Americas 2016 exhibition held from September 26-29 in Houston, USA. Annie Roberts reports from the show.

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    TPI opens in Lyon

    2017-01-16T00:00:00Z

    January 16 - French forwarding agent, Transport Paris International - Groupe Worms (TPI) has opened a new agency office in Lyon.

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    Schedule change for Streamlines

    2017-01-16T00:00:00Z

    January 16 - From January 18, the European schedule of Streamlines' Blue Stream service will change; calling at Tilbury before Rotterdam.

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    Chipolbrok trio busy in Europe

    2017-01-16T00:00:00Z

    January 16 - Nowowiejski, one of Chipolbrok's newest vessels, has recently made its maiden call at the German ports of Hamburg and Rostock having transported crane parts, machinery and project cargo from US ports.

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    Modulift unveils even bigger beam

    2017-01-16T00:00:00Z

    January 16 - Modulift says that it has manufactured its largest ever spreader beam, which can lift 1,500 tonnes at a span of 20 m, for Netherlands based equipment and service provider to the marine industry, Safe Lifting Europe.

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    Bladt and Blue contract at Lindo

    2017-01-13T00:00:00Z

    January 13 - Blue Water Shipping has been contracted by Bladt Industries to handle all of the company's heavy load transports at its Lindo site in Denmark.

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    Alibaba and WCA network partner up

    2017-01-13T00:00:00Z

    January 13 - Global logistics network WCA and global wholesale trading platform, Alibaba.com have concluded a co-operation agreement that will see approved WCA member companies integrated into the Alibaba.com logistics platform for cross-border e-commerce

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    Veolia and Peterson win decommissioning contract

    2017-01-13T00:00:00Z

    January 13 - A partnership between Paris-based Veolia and Netherlands-based logistics firm Peterson has been awarded two platform decommissioning contracts for recycling at their facility in Great Yarmouth.

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    Gantry first for Enerpac

    2017-01-13T00:00:00Z

    January 13 - Enerpac has developed a 450-ton (408-tonne) capacity lift and rotation strand jack gantry, which it claims is the first of its kind to feature a rotating unit, enabling the lift and rotation of large turbine equipment during power plant insta

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    Sarens debuts new jacking system

    2017-01-12T00:00:00Z

    January 12 - Sarens has used its new CS1000 jacking system for the first time to install a 2,000-tonne, 120 m long segment of the new Schierstein Bridge in Germany.

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    ABC achieves 1,000

    2017-01-11T00:00:00Z

    January 11 - AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) exceeded 1,000 Boeing 747 freighter flights at Amsterdam Schiphol and Frankfurt airports for the first time in 2016.