European news – Page 428

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    LiftRig handles power cables

    2012-05-23T00:00:00Z

    May 23 - Portland in the UK is an Olympic site this year, and also the location of LiftRig Consulting's latest subsea power cable handling and storage project.

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    Boost delivered to Congo's mining power generation

    2012-05-23T00:00:00Z

    May 23 - A Volga-Dnepr Airlines' AN-124-100 freighter chartered by Chapman Freeborn has carried a 22-ton (22.35-tonne) multi-stage press coil to the Congo to help progress the modernisation of the country's power generation.

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    BigLift transports five mobile cranes to Nigeria

    2012-05-23T00:00:00Z

    May 23 - BigLift Shipping has used its heavy lift ship, Happy Dragon, to transport five mobile cranes for leading crane manufacturers Liebherr and Gottwald from Germany and Belgium to Nigeria.

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    Scholpp moves two production lines

    2012-05-22T00:00:00Z

    May 22 - Scholpp Montage from Germany has relocated and installed two production lines to China.

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    Five in line for Sietas Group companies

    2012-05-22T00:00:00Z

    May 22 - Five concrete offers have been received for the companies of the Hamburg-based Sietas Group.

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    KPIs show that container industry needs to improve

    2012-05-21T00:00:00Z

    May 21 - Project cargo consigned to ocean containers suffers from delays and service failures despite industry-wide vessel schedule reliability improvements to 72.3 percent in the first quarter of 2012.

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    DSV Solutions Management Change

    2012-05-21T00:00:00Z

    May 21 - Brian Ejsing is the new managing director of DSV Solutions.

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    PD Ports staff to pound the Tarmac in a good cause

    2012-05-21T00:00:00Z

    May 21 - Big-hearted employees from the Middlesbrough, UK-based PD Ports will be lacing up their running shoes and taking part in the 21 km Great North Run for Butterwick Hospice this year.

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    Noatum Terminal Polivalente Santander handles 100 tonne chimney

    2012-05-21T00:00:00Z

    May 21 - A steel chimney bound for a thermal power station in Morocco consisting of three pieces of 10 - 15 m in length and nearly 5 m in diameter, has been loaded by stevedore operator Noatum Terminal Polivalente Santander as the company seeks to boost i

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    Oil rig transportation bonanza for Fairmount Marine

    2012-05-18T00:00:00Z

    May 18 - Three trans-ocean towage operations by marine contractor Fairmount Marine demonstrate the global reach of the Rotterdam-based heavy lift transportation operator's five modern long distance 250-tonne bollard pull super tugs.

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    Air Partner names CIS sales manager

    2012-05-18T00:00:00Z

    May 18 - Air Partner has appointed Alexandra Nepochataya as its new Sales Manager for CIS, with immediate effect.

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    Cargolux adds Chongqing

    2012-05-18T00:00:00Z

    May 18 - Cargolux has launched twice weekly scheduled flights to Chongqing, China.

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    Business as usual, says Fairstar

    2012-05-17T00:00:00Z

    May 17 - Facing a hostile and unwelcome takeover by heavy lift giant Dockwise, business at Fairstar might seem anything but usual.

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    LS International in multimodal Brazilian shipment for paper industry

    2012-05-17T00:00:00Z

    May 17 - Bremen-based project cargo forwarder LS International Cargo was contracted to move a dryer for the paper industry ex-Santos, Brazil to Krapkowice, Poland in a voyage of around five weeks.

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    Agility name Jaeger as MD Area West, in Europe

    2012-05-16T00:00:00Z

    May 16 - Agility has appointed Patrick Jaeger as managing director of Area West in Europe, responsible for defining growth strategies and identifying development opportunities in Switzerland and France.

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    Gebr

    2012-05-14T00:00:00Z

    May 14 - GWEast+, a division of Austrian logistics company Gebr

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    Caterpillar to sell stake in logistics business to Platinum Equity

    2012-05-14T00:00:00Z

    May 14 - Caterpillar is to sell a 65 percent stake in Caterpillar Logistics Services LLC, its third party logistics business, to Platinum Equity in a deal reported to be worth USD750million.

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    MIQ Logistics awarded San Cristobal mining business

    2012-05-14T00:00:00Z

    May 14 - US-based, MIQ Logistics has won a multi-year service agreement with Minera San Cristobal for logistics activities supporting mining operations in the province of Nor Lipez, Bolivia.

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    Fairstar Heavy Transport re-opens and continues AGM

    2012-05-14T00:00:00Z

    May 14 - Commenting on the decision to re-open and continue its AGM earlier today, Frits van Riet, chairman of the Fairstar Heavy Transport Supervisory Board, commented: "Fairstar reconvened the AGM with the intention of providing our shareholders with th

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    Earth is moving for Ocean & Sky

    2012-05-11T00:00:00Z

    May 11 - Ocean & Sky Logistics, which joined the Project Cargo Network (PCN in January 2011, has completed a multiple consignment of earth moving equipment from Malta to Morocco.