European news – Page 227

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    Mallory Alexander names admin chief

    2016-08-31T00:00:00Z

    August 31 - Robert E. Mallory has been appointed chief administrative officer of Mallory Alexander International Logistics.

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    Combi Lift opens US hub

    2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

    August 30 - Combi Lift has established a US subsidiary - Combi Lift America - based in Houston, Texas.

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    Petrasco in chopper move

    2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

    August 30 - Petrasco Energy Logistics has coordinated the delivery of two helicopters from Eastern Europe to the UK.

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    Karlsen up at ALE

    2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

    August 30 - ALE has appointed Paul Karlsen as commercial manager for its Scandinavia business.

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    Jurassic move for Jan de Rijk

    2016-08-26T00:00:00Z

    August 26 - Jan de Rijk Logistics has transported a 66-million-year-old skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus Rex from Amsterdam's Schiphol airport to the city of Leiden in the Netherlands.

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    DHL inks racing car contract

    2016-08-26T00:00:00Z

    August 26 - A new partnership agreement has been signed by DHL and the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC), which will see the logistics provider organise the shipment of the teams' motor sport materials and equipment to the overseas events.

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    Modules move with Blue Water

    2016-08-25T00:00:00Z

    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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    Hydra-Slide adds UK distributor

    2016-08-25T00:00:00Z

    August 25 - Rapid Response Solutions (RRS) has become the first distributor of Hydra-Slide's hydraulically powered skidding systems and other related products in the UK and Ireland.

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    Huisman wins heavy lift orders

    2016-08-24T00:00:00Z

    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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    NORD/LB deal reduces shipping exposure

    2016-08-24T00:00:00Z

    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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    Mobile crane lifts turbine part

    2016-08-24T00:00:00Z

    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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    Stolberg trial nears completion?

    2016-08-24T00:00:00Z

    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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    Crane arrives at MGT

    2016-08-24T00:00:00Z

    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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    Maiden project for Allseas ship

    2016-08-24T00:00:00Z

    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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    ALE navigates Atyrau streets

    2016-08-24T00:00:00Z

    August 24 - ALE has completed the transport of the heaviest out-of-gauge components for the Atyrau refinery in Kazakhstan.

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    Long load for Combi Lift

    2016-08-23T00:00:00Z

    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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    Straightpoint assists Speedy move

    2016-08-23T00:00:00Z

    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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    Multi Marine and Conti7 strengthen alliance

    2016-08-23T00:00:00Z

    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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    Terex makes monumental move

    2016-08-22T00:00:00Z

    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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    JAXPORT gets heavy lift of its own

    2016-08-22T00:00:00Z

    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