Europe news – Page 228
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Modules move with Blue Water
August 25 - The special project department of Blue Water Shipping has been involved in the transport of two large accommodation modules, weighing up to 650 tonnes.
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Crane arrives at MGT
August 24 - Matadi Gateway Terminal (MGT) - the new container and general cargo terminal on the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) - has received the first of two new mobile harbour cranes from Terex Port Solutions.
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NORD/LB deal reduces shipping exposure
August 24 - NORD/LB (Norddeutsche Landesbank) and KKR Credit have reached an agreement by which, subject to completion of certain conditions precedents, KKR Credit, together with a sovereign wealth fund, will acquire a portfolio of performing and non-perf
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Maiden project for Allseas ship
August 24 - Allseas' single lift installation, decommissioning and pipelay vessel Pioneering Spirit has executed its first heavy lift project, with the removal of the 13,500-tonne Yme mobile offshore production unit in the North Sea.
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Stolberg trial nears completion?
August 24 - Some of the German media reported that yesterday was a reasonable day in court for Niels Stolberg, the ex-head of the now defunct Beluga Group, when the presiding judges in Bremen's regional court ruled that one of three indictments against hi
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Huisman wins heavy lift orders
August 24 - Huisman has secured new crane contracts with a total value of around EUR300 million (USD338 million) from various contractors, including two 900-tonne capacity heavy lift ship cranes for BigLift Shipping.
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Mobile crane lifts turbine part
August 24 - Germany based crane rental company Sommer Kranverleih has used a 400-tonne capacity Grove GMK6400 mobile crane to replace a 1-tonne wind turbine generator at an onshore wind farm site near Bremen.
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ALE navigates Atyrau streets
August 24 - ALE has completed the transport of the heaviest out-of-gauge components for the Atyrau refinery in Kazakhstan.
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Multi Marine and Conti7 strengthen alliance
August 23 - Belgium's Conti7 shipping group and Italy's Multi Marine Services (MMS) have strengthened their short sea services partnership through a new joint operation, Conti Carwil Line, combining the respective services of Conti Med Line and Carwil Lin
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Straightpoint assists Speedy move
August 23 - Speedy Services has used load monitoring and suspended weighing load cell equipment from Straightpoint to weigh and calculate the centre of gravity of a 298-tonne flare stack bound for a BP oil rig in the North Sea.
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Long load for Combi Lift
August 23 - Combi Lift's multipurpose vessel Palabora has loaded an oversize vacuum column and cooker fractionator in Masan, South Korea for delivery to the Mina Abdullah and Mina Al Ahmadi refineries in southern Kuwait.
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JAXPORT gets heavy lift of its own
August 22 - In the USA, JAXPORT's ongoing investment could be seen as three container cranes arrived at the port's Blount Island Marine Terminal aboard the ZPMC semi-submersible ship, Zhen Hua 14, which departed from Shanghai, China in early June. They wi
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Milwaukee steps up for Emmert
August 22 - Emmert International has arranged for the transportation of a 295 tonnes (650,000 lbs) press from Canada on a McKeil Marine deck barge across the Great Lakes through the Port of Milwaukee to a Scot Forge plant in Illinois.
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Terex makes monumental move
August 22 - Working alongside two other cranes, Germany's Steil Kranarbeiten has used a Terex AC 200 crane and a AC 350 crane to lift and install the 35 m long, 60-tonne observation deck for the Saarpolygon monument.
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Inchcape opens in Amsterdam
August 19 - Maritime and logistics service provider, Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS) has opened an office in Amsterdam - the company's second office in the Netherlands.
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General cargoes up in Lower Saxony seaports
August 18 - In the first half of 2016, the nine Lower Saxony seaports in Germany handled 23.8 million tonnes of cargo, slightly down on the same period of 2015 (25.7 million tonnes).
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More mergers and acquisitions says Drewry
August 19 - Poor first half results in container shipping in the first half make it more likely that more merger activity can be expected, says London's Drewry Maritime Research.
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Profits tumble at Boskalis
August 19 - Royal Boskalis Westminster (Boskalis) realised a net profit of EUR147.5 million in the first half of 2016, less than half of the EUR 306.5 million it achieved in the corresponding period of 2015, with the spot market in its Offshore Energy dep
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All change at Dachser Air & Sea Logistics
August 18 - Effective January 1, 2016, Jochen Müller will join the Dachser management team and will take over from Thomas Reuter as chief operations officer of the company's Air & Sea Logistics business on January 1, 2018
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Another Kazakh contract for Blue Water Shipping
August 18 - Blue Water Shipping will lead a consortium which has been awarded a USD 154 million contract by Tengizchevroil (TCO).