Europe news – Page 229

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    Throughput down at Hamburg

    2016-08-17T00:00:00Z

    August 17 - The Port of Hamburg has reported that for the first half of 2016 total seaborne cargo throughput was down 0.9 percent on the previous year at 70.2 million tonnes.

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    Grove crane in Paradise

    2016-08-17T00:00:00Z

    August 17 - Crane and heavy transport service provider, DCH Crane, has taken delivery of a Grove GMK5250L in a move to enhance the mobility of its fleet.

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    Finnlines to delist and go private

    2016-08-17T00:00:00Z

    August 17 - Today, Finnlines Plc (Finnlines), part of the Grimaldi Group, will file a delisting application with Nasdaq Helsinki for the termination of trading in the Finnlines shares and for the delisting of the shares from the official list of that stoc

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    Summer record for ACS

    2016-08-17T00:00:00Z

    August 17 - July saw aircraft charter specialist, Air Charter Service, book 1,114 charter contracts, making it the company's best month on record.

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    Offices take to the water

    2016-08-16T00:00:00Z

    August 16 - Port of Tilbury and S Walsh's new construction alliance - London Construction Link (LCL) - has started to carry out the waterborne delivery of the Thames Tideway Tunnel (TTT) project offices to Central London.

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    Hapag-Lloyd carries trains to Peru

    2016-08-16T00:00:00Z

    August 16 - Today's loading of six metro cars onboard Hapag Lloyd's container ship Cerinthus at the port of Salerno, Italy, marks the first in a series of shipments that will see the shipping line carry a total of 42 trains consisting of 252 metro cars fr

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    Intermarine adds chartering manager

    2016-08-16T00:00:00Z

    August 16 - Intermarine has named Samir Ferguen as chartering manager - Europe.

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    Veja Mate wind park on schedule

    2016-08-16T00:00:00Z

    August 16 - The Hamburg-based Buss Port Logistics has successfully completed the near-shore logistics and storage operations for the future Veja Mate offshore windpark. 


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    Palfinger ends TTS takeover

    2016-08-15T00:00:00Z

    August 15 - The Austrian company Palfinger Marine has terminated its attempt to acquire all the shares in Norway, Bergen-based TTS Group.

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    SeaWorks handles Amazonian cargoes

    2016-08-15T00:00:00Z

    August 15 - Earlier this summer, SeaWorks' multipurpose heavy lift ship, SCL Angela sailed from Belem, North Brazil to Moerdijk, The Netherlands with a full cargo of used rolling stock, including dump trucks, hydraulic excavators, water trucks and compact

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    BBC returns to Denmark

    2016-08-15T00:00:00Z

    August 15 - BBC Chartering has re-launched its presence in Denmark, opening a representative office in Esbjerg.

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    European first for Mega Jack system

    2016-08-15T00:00:00Z

    August 15 - ALE has used the revolutionary Mega Jack system for the first time in Europe as part of works for the Albert Kanaal Project.

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    Worldwide success for PCN members

    2016-08-12T00:00:00Z

    August 12 - Member of the Project Cargo Network (PCN) in Poland, Scandinavian Express has completed the transport of six bridge sections, each measuring 7.5 m wide, from Poland to Sweden.

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    High five for big blade shipment

    2016-08-12T00:00:00Z

    August 12 - Hamburg based shipbroker Hanseatic Break Bulk (HBB) has worked together with liner agent Nepa Shipping to arrange the transport of 150 individual wind turbine blades from China to the USA on board the newbuild heavy lift vessel Chipolbrok Atla

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    Siemens continues Egypt power project

    2016-08-11T00:00:00Z

    August 11 - The modules for the first heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) for the Siemens mega project in Egypt have been loaded at the Port of Ulsan, South Korea for their journey to the Beni Suef power plant.

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    St Lawrence Seaway traffic down

    2016-08-11T00:00:00Z

    August 11 - Falling coal and iron ore volumes on the St Lawrence Seaway contributed to an 11 percent reduction in total tonnage in the first quarter, while steel slabs - up 214 percent - were one of the few cargoes to show growth.

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    First ships for Hull's windmill port

    2016-08-11T00:00:00Z

    August 11 - Berths at the Green Port Hull development at Alexandra Dock in the UK have carried out their first task - handling ships delivering crushed stone, which will be used to surface the wind turbine factory site that is being built by Siemens.

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    NWSA benefits from widened Panama Canal

    2016-08-11T00:00:00Z

    August 11 - Officials at the Northwest Seaport Alliance (NWSA) have welcomed the first call of the Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL)'s ro-ro vessel Thalatta as an excellent example of how the ports of Seattle and Tacoma will benefit from the widening o

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    First lift for Pioneering Spirit

    2016-08-10T00:00:00Z

    August 10 - Allseas' installation and decommissioning vessel Pioneering Spirit has successfully installed the 5,500-tonne test platform topside on its substructure at the K-13 field in the North Sea.

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    Turbine travels through Strasbourg

    2016-08-10T00:00:00Z

    August 10 - A 370-tonne gas turbine, manufactured at GE's factory in Belfort, has been handled by Rhine Europe Terminals (RET) in Strasbourg.