European news – Page 223
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ACS promotes D'Cruz
January 24 - Air Charter Service (ACS) has promoted Tracy D'Cruz to regional director for the company's European offices.
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Subsea 7 makes offer for Seaway Heavy Lifting
January 23 - A wholly-owned subsidiary of Subsea 7 has made an offer to acquire the 50 percent shareholding in Seaway Heavy Lifting, which is currently owned by its joint venture partner K&S Baltic Offshore (Cyprus).
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Landstar expands with new centre
January 20 - Landstar System has opened its new US/Mexico logistics service centre in Laredo, Texas.
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Höegh Autoliners delivers delicate cargo
January 20 - Höegh Autoliners has transported a yacht from Barcelona, Spain to Auckland, New Zealand for Complete Marine Freight.
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Nichol joins Greece team
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
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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Italians seek uniform haulage rules
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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ROG's big upgrade
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
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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Thorco Projects and MC-Schiffahrt form shipping pool
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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Industry prepares for widespread consolidation
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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Italy's Navemar hits the buffers
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
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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TPI opens in Lyon
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
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
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
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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Gantry first for Enerpac
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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Veolia and Peterson win decommissioning contract
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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Bladt and Blue contract at Lindo
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.