European news – Page 472
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Leading weather company acquires offshore forecasting technology business
May 9 - MeteoGroup has acquired Nowcasting International, a global weather forecasting company specialising in metocean solutions for the offshore industry.
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Allseas and Synergy relocate factory
May 9 - The relocation of an entire paper processing plant from the UK to Bangladesh gave heavy lift specialist Allseas Global Logistics the opportunity to demonstrate its experience and expertise in handling this type of complex project.
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Munich hosts successful GPLN conference
May 9 - The Global Project Logistics Network's (GPLN's) conference in Munich last week brought together 136 project cargo experts and independent project logistics specialist companies from around the world.
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Cargo Equipment owners and operators set to meet in Amsterdam
May 6 - Members of the Cargo Equipment Experts (CEE), the global network for equipment owners and operators, supporting manufacturers and carriers, who are involved in the actual movement of heavy cargo, will gather in Amsterdam from May 19-21 to conduct
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Rickmers-Linie adds ships to upgrade Indian service
May 5 - Rickmers-Linie is upgrading its Indian service with the addition of new vessels.
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Cargolux in talks with Qatar Airways
May 5 - The international business media is awash with reports that Cargolux is in talks with Qatar Airways about a minority shareholding in the European all-cargo carrier, with the Middle East airline reported to to be close to agreeing to the purchase o
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Dockwise reveals more big contracts
May 4 - Dockwise has reveals six new heavy marine transport contracts for its subsidiary Dockwise Shipping with a total contract value of more than USD 34 million.
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IDEA Heavy Equipment and Ulstein sign MOU
May 4 - A memorandum of understanding (MOU) has been signed which outlines the main principles of how Norwegian Ulstein Group and Netherlands-based IDEA Heavy Equipment are joining forces.
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AirBridgeCargo Airlines takes scheduled route to North America
May 3 - AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has launched services to its first destination in North America with three flights a week to Chicago.
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Fairstar wins ENSCO contract
May 3 - Fairstar Heavy Transport has been awarded a contract by ENSCO to transport the ENSCO 105 jack-up drilling rig from Malta to Singapore.
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ADM-THW gets to the dock on time
April 28 - Project cargo forwarder ADM Team Heavy Weight (ADM-THW) transported two dryers measuring 10.0 x 3.30 x 4.0 m and weighing 78 tonnes from Lorient, France to the port of Antwerp, Belgium.
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Globalink transports dump trucks to Kazakhstan
April 28 - Project cargo forwarder Globalink has recently handled the transportation of Hitachi dump trucks from the US to Kazakhstan. The consignment arrived at Paldiski port, Estonia where transloading from vessel onto low bed trailers was completed.
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PCN completes its trio of UK members
April 27 - The Project Cargo Network (PCN) has filled its UK membership quota with the signing of its "third and final" UK member, says Rachel Humphrey, PCN chairwoman.
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Jumbo Offshore to install protection structures in Shetland island fields
April 27 - In June, 2011, Jumbo Offshore's DP2 heavy lift vessel Fairplayer is set to install four subsea protection structures for production flowlines at water depths of 600 m in the Laggan and Tormore fields, 125 km off the north-west of the Shetland i
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Georgia's ports welcome world's largest ro-ro ship
April 26 - The Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) has welcomed the largest ro-ro vessel ever to call at its deepwater ports.
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Project network doubles up
April 23 - Conti-trans Speditionsgesellschaft GmbH and Direct Logistics China are the latest companies to join the Global Project Logistics Network (GPLN) - the fast-growing, non-exclusive professional projects logistics network of independent companies s
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TPL overcomes permitting problems to ship dryers
April 21 - Belgium's TPL (Transport & Project Logistics) has handled the shipment of two large dryers from France to Jeddah via the port of Antwerp.
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Liebherr hat-trick for Knoll
April 21 - Mobile crane hire company, Hans-Peter Knoll e.K. has taken delivery of a Liebherr LTF 1045-4.1, LTF 1060-4.1, and an LTC 1045-3.1.
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Excellent start for Antwerp, but heavy lifts still down
April 19 - The port of Antwerp handled 47,374,451 tonnes of freight in the first three months of this year, up by 12.7 percent on the same period of 2010, although heavy lift cargoes were down around 15 percent and machinery, engines, etc were down around
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New overland service for Iraq
April 19 - Exporters looking to serve the Iraq oil and gas industry might be interested in the guaranteed twice-weekly express road trailer services between Western Europe and Iraq recently launched by independent freight forwarder F.S. Mackenzie.