European news – Page 256

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    K+N profit up in 2015

    2016-03-03T00:00:00Z

    March 3 - Despite recording a 4.4 percent year-on-year drop in turnover for 2015 at CHF16.7 billion (USD16.72 billion), Kuehne + Nagel posted EBITDA of CHF1.04 billion (USD1.041 billion) - a 3.6 percent increase compared with 2014.

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    Rickmers-Linie hits the gas

    2016-03-02T00:00:00Z

    March 2 - Rickmers-Linie and Bertling Logistics have teamed up to transport the largest gas turbine ever manufactured by Siemens from Germany to Turkey.

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    DB Schenker Rail rebrands

    2016-03-02T00:00:00Z

    March 2 - Effective immediately, Deutsche Bahn's railfreight business - DB Schenker Rail - has been renamed DB Cargo.

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    Dan-Czech on the double

    2016-03-02T00:00:00Z

    March 2 - Dan-Czech Specialtransport has delivered two adjusters, weighing 155 tonnes each, from Sviadnov to the river port of Melnik in Czech Republic, for final shipment to Schiedam in the Netherlands.

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    FSM expands in Caucasus

    2016-03-02T00:00:00Z

    March 2 - F.S. Mackenzie Group (FSM) has opened a new office Tbilisi, Georgia, which it says will act as a gateway for imports to the Caucasus region.

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    Whitehouse joins Allianz

    2016-03-02T00:00:00Z

    March 2 - Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) has appointed Andrew Whitehouse as regional unit London (RUL) head of marine.

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    Nordana Sea now in service

    2016-02-29T00:00:00Z

    February 29 - Earlier this month, Dutch shipbuilder Ferus Smit delivered the 10,550 dwt multipurpose cargo ship Nordana Sea to fellow shipping company Symphony Shipping.

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    Museum piece for Prangl

    2016-02-29T00:00:00Z

    February 29 - Prangl has handled the transportation of an 80 tonne vintage excavator to the mining museum in Karlschacht, Austria.

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    Air Charter Service now in Australia

    2016-02-29T00:00:00Z

    February 29 - Air Charter Service is set to open its first Australian office.

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    Projects rush in for PCN members

    2016-02-26T00:00:00Z

    February 26 - Intertransport Gruber, member of the Project Cargo Network (PCN) in Germany, has coordinated the shipment of a 135-tonne consignment of cement plant equipment from Poland to Saudi Arabia.

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    Caucasian partnership formed

    2016-02-26T00:00:00Z

    February 26 - Georgia's Logistics Solutions has joined forces with Turkish heavy haulier Hareket to execute projects together in the Caucasus region.

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    Volga-Dnepr delivers space cargoes

    2016-02-26T00:00:00Z

    February 26 - Volga-Dnepr Airlines has completed its latest aerospace project, utilising one of its IL-76TD-90VD freighters to deliver a spacecraft payload module from Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow to London Stansted.

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    Project cargo climbs at Walvis Bay

    2016-02-26T00:00:00Z

    February 26 - The Walvis Bay Corridor Group (WBCG) has stated that part of its strategic initiative within its current five-year plan is to facilitate the growth of project cargo and abnormal loads through the Namibian Port of Walvis Bay.

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    NileDutch upgrades African network

    2016-02-26T00:00:00Z

    February 26 - Effective March 9, NileDutch is upgrading its existing West Europe - West Africa (WEWA) service to operate weekly sailings.

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    PD Ports on right track

    2016-02-25T00:00:00Z

    February 25 - PD Ports says that it will handle the majority of Hitachi Transport System Europe's (HTSE) railcar imports destined for Hitachi's new rail vehicle manufacturing facility (RVMF) in Newton Aycliffe, UK.

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    Plastic plant move for SAL

    2016-02-25T00:00:00Z

    February 25 - SAL Heavy Lift's vessel Lone has completed the second shipment of cargo from Mai Lao, China, to Point Comfort in Texas, USA for a plastic plant expansion project.

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    Steder propels forward

    2016-02-25T00:00:00Z

    February 25 - Steder Group has coordinated the transport of new propulsion system equipment from the European ports of Antwerp and Southampton to Charleston in the USA.

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    PPG duo ships seven

    2016-02-25T00:00:00Z

    February 25 - TransProject and ScanGlobal have completed a three-year-long project to deliver seven 400-tonne transformers from Sweden to The Dalles in Oregon, USA.

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    WDS readies telescope for the cold

    2016-02-25T00:00:00Z

    February 25 - World Distribution Services (WDS) has been awarded a contract by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) to help coordinate the transport of a new radio telescope from the USA to Greenland.

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    Cargolux makes for Mumbai

    2016-02-23T00:00:00Z

    February 23 - As part of the two airlines' cooperation agreement, Cargolux and Oman Air have introduced two weekly flights to Mumbai, with effect from March 8, 2016.