European news – Page 450

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    ALS ships demolition equipment to Kiwi earthquake zone

    2011-09-28T00:00:00Z

    September 28 - The Abnormal Load Services (International) Ltd project team in Hull, UK, has organised the first export charter shipment of a demolition machine for UK demolition company Coleman & Company.

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    Grimaldi newbuild reinforces Hamburg-West Africa connections

    2011-09-28T00:00:00Z

    September 28 - Earlier this week, the port of Hamburg saw the first sailing of Grimaldi's newbuilding, Grande Sierra Leone, from the Unikai terminal on the line's West Africa service.

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    GPLN drives into oil and gas logistics training sector

    2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

    September 27 - The Global Project Logistics Network (GPLN) recently completed training sessions at two of the most important oil and gas industry events: SPE Offshore Europe 2011 and Indonesia Oil & Gas Expo 2011.

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    Air Charter Service competes in the UK's Great River Race 2011

    2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

    September 27 - Aircraft charter specialist, Air Charter Service, once again took part in this year's Great River Race, raising almost GBP6,000 (USD9,325) for one of the company's chosen charities, Heal.

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    Century for Project Cargo Network

    2011-09-26T00:00:00Z

    September 26 - The Project Cargo Network (PCN) has reached a major milestone in its development with 100 companies now on its membership roster.

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    Bureau Veritas extends Russian partnerships

    2011-09-26T00:00:00Z

    September 26 - One of the leading conformity assessment and certification service companies, Bureau Veritas, is extending its partnerships in the Russian shipping and offshore sector, focusing on high Arctic offshore projects.

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    Confidence dips to all-time low as uncertainty fuels overtonnaging

    2011-09-26T00:00:00Z

    September 26 - Overall confidence levels in the shipping industry fell to their lowest level for three and a half years in the three months ended August 2011, according to the latest shipping confidence survey by accountant and shipping adviser Moore Step

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    Lufthansa Cargo Charter helps fight oil well fire

    2011-09-22T00:00:00Z

    September 22 - Lufthansa Cargo Charter Agency GmbH, together with its general sales agent (GSA) Platinum Air Cargo in Houston, has organised the emergency transport via a charter aircraft of six tonnes of specialised well fire fighting equipment from Hous

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    Barnhart VP gives rigging workshop a lift

    2011-09-22T00:00:00Z

    September 22 - Shaun Sipe, VP of human capital at Barnhart Crane & Rigging, is to join the panel of speakers at the Maritime Lifting Solutions Workshop, which takes place from December 7-9 in Mobile, Alabama, USA.

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    Damco set to scale greater heights

    2011-09-21T00:00:00Z

    September 21 - Damco has transported a single piece compressor weighing 52 tonnes from Orissa via Kolkata airport in India to its final destination in Berlin, Germany.

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    Blank checks into ACS Frankfurt

    2011-09-21T00:00:00Z

    September 21 - UK-based air freight broker Air Charter Service (ACS) has appointed a new cargo sales director at its Frankfurt office while the company has organised a vital relief goods flight into North Korea in response to the devastating floods in tha

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    Parsifal hits new notes for heavy lift

    2011-09-20T00:00:00Z

    September 20 - Named after an opera by Wagner, MV Parsifal, which claims to be the world's joint-largest ro-ro vessel, is the latest addition to the deep-sea ro-ro fleet operated by Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics.

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    Harwich plays host to Chinese green energy delegation

    2011-09-20T00:00:00Z

    September 20 - Managers at English east coast gateway Harwich International Port have played host to a high-level delegation from the Chinese offshore wind industry.

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    GAC Group makes a trio of significant management appointments

    2011-09-20T00:00:00Z

    September 20 - The GAC Group has announced two key management appointments in Dubai, United Arab Emirates for its group and local operations at the same time as the group has appointed a new group HSSE (Health Safety Security Environment) manager to drive

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    Marmedsa Proyectos oils the wheels of Castor gas storage project

    2011-09-19T00:00:00Z

    September 19 - From the beginning of the project in June 2010, Marmedsa Proyectos has been active in the ACS Cobra principal project Castor.

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    New chairman takes helm at Cargolux as CFO steps down

    2011-09-19T00:00:00Z

    September 19 - Main deck cargo airline Cargolux has appointed a new board chairman to succeed Marc Hoffman, who remains a board director.

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    NSCSA exercises options for two ro-cons

    2011-09-16T00:00:00Z

    September 16 - The National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia (NSCSA) has exercised the option to build two ro-con vessels with Hyundai MIPO of South Korea.

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    Liebherr crane debuts with lift at Bavarian paper factory

    2011-09-16T00:00:00Z

    September 16 - Heavy lift crane manufacturer Liebherr's LTM 1350-6.1 has shown its paces on its debut lift for heavy-load expert and forwarder Schmidbauer Group.

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    Konecranes to supply cranes for Klaipeda

    2011-09-14T00:00:00Z

    September 14 - Konecranes has received an order for three Ship-To-Shore (STS) cranes and seven Rubber Tyred Gantry (RTG) cranes from JSSC Klaipedos Smelte in Lithuania. The cranes will be delivered to the port of Klaipeda starting in the fourth quarter of

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    Demag Cranes delivers five to Dutch ports

    2011-09-14T00:00:00Z

    September 14 - Demag Cranes is further expanding its business in the Netherlands with the delivery of five Generation 5 Gottwald Mobile Harbour Cranes to three major terminal operators, in the Netherlands.