European news – Page 209
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Decommissioned Steamer put to cultural use
February 24 - The Munich-based freight forwarder Robert Kukla has transported a decommissioned excursion steamer, to its new location on an unused railway bridge.
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Liebherr sends three to Puerto Rico
February 23 - Three Liebherr cranes that are currently dominating the skyline at Rushbrook, Ireland, are ship-to-shore container handling cranes which are being loaded onto OHT's semi-submersible heavy lift vessel, Albatross.
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Statoil's giant blades unveiled
February 23 - Statoil has unveiled its 75 m long turbine blades for its floating offshore wind farm, the Hywind Scotland Pilotpark, at its facilities in Stord, Norway.
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Barnett in at Emirates SkyCargo
February 23 - Emirates SkyCargo, the freight division of Emirates, has named Ross Barnett as cargo manager in the UK.
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Combi Lift transports for Nordsee One
February 22 - Combi Lift is handling the transport of components for Nordsee One - an offshore wind farm spanning a total area of 41.3 sq km, located in the North Sea.
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A. Henriksen buys another Liebherr
February 22 - A. Henriksen Shipping has signed a contract for a multipurpose Liebherr LHM 550 mobile harbour crane, which has a total lifting capacity of 144 tonnes.
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Antonov and Air Charter Service team up
February 22 - Air Charter Service (ACS) chartered an Antonov AN-124 to deliver a new engine to a Swiss International Airlines Boeing 777-300 aircraft that was grounded in Iqaluit, in the Canadian Arctic, following an emergency landing.
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XLP members on the move
February 21 - XLProjects (XLP) members have been busy transporting heavy loads in Egypt, Pakistan and Thailand.
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GeoSea wins Siemens' contract
February 21 - DEME Group's offshore marine engineering subsidiary, GeoSea, has been contracted to design, manufacture and install 71 turbine foundations for EnBW Hohe See offshore wind farm in Germany, which will be of interest to logistics and shipping c
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Antonov moves giant helicopter
February 21 - Antonov Airlines has carried out its first charter operation from its new UK headquarters at London Stansted Airport, transporting a British-manufactured helicopter.
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Volga-Dnepr flies for deugro
February 20 - Volga-Dnepr Airlines has operated a series of AN-124-100 and IL-76TD-90VD charter flights to transport equipment for a new liquefied natural gas (LNG) production plant on the Yamal Peninsula in northwest Siberia.
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Ro-ro delivered for DFDS
February 20 - DFDS has taken delivery of Gardenia Seaways, the first of two new ro-ro vessels from Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG).
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BDP grows in Peru
February 20 - BDP International has opened an office in Lima, Peru, supporting the logistics and transportation company's efforts to grow its Latin American presence.
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Holleman moves engine shafts
February 16 - Holleman Bulgaria has transported three engine shafts from Romania to Germany.
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Forwarders criticise protectionism
February 16 - The International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations (FIATA), the umbrella organisation for global freight forwarder associations, has commented on the value of free trade, trade facilitation, and trade development in the wake of
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Mixed picture for ports
February 15 - Whilst 2016 saw the Port of Hamburg achieve a turnaround in seaborne cargo throughput, reaching a total 138.2 million tonnes in the general and bulk cargo segments, throughput of non-containerised general cargoes hit 1.5 million tonnes, 11.0
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DSV invests in Immingham
February 15 - DSV is expanding its presence in Immingham, UK, adding a 100,000 sq ft (9,290 sq m) logistics facility to its existing facility, which will be fully operational at the end of May.
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Sarens handles huge bridge pylon
February 15 - Sarens has transported and installed a 1,700-tonne pylon from Belgium to Sunderland, UK, for the New Wear Crossing bridge, which is scheduled to open in 2018.
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Bolloré handles massive loads
February 15 - Bolloré Logistics Chile has handled the transportation of a 155-ton (140.6-tonne) transformer from São Paulo, Brazil, to Santiago in Chile using the Antonov AN-225 aircraft.
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Liebherr fixes that dam wall
February 14 - A Liebherr LTM 1090-4.1 mobile crane has been used to install a sluice gate in the Aggertal dam wall, 50 km to the east of Cologne, Germany.