European news – Page 524
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Seafast Logistics wins project forwarding award
January 23 - At the BIFA Freight Service Awards 2008, Seafast Logistics plc walked way with one of the freight industry's most prestigious and important awards
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London Array future questioned by consortium member
January 23 - One of the three parties in the consortium behind a GBP3 billion scheme to build the world's largest offshore wind farm in the Thames Estuary is reported to have questioned the viability of the project.
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Flinterrachel is launched
January 21 - The Flinterrachel, the second of a pair of 5,500 dwt multi-purpose heavy lift ships has been launched.
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BigLift Shipping fleet just gets bigger
January 20 - Amsterdam-based BigLift is set to bring five more heavy lift ships into service in 2010. The D-4 types will be 17,500 dwt and offer two 400 tonne cranes, offering 800 tonnes of lifting capacity in tandem, and one 12 tonne crane.
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Fairstar lifts Energy Exerter on Fjord
January 16 - Fairstar Heavy Transport has successfully loaded the drilling rig, Energy Exerter onto its heavy transport vessel Fjord in Kirkenes, Norway.
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DSV buys stake in DFDS
January 16 - Through an agreement with investment company JL-Fondet (which owns tanker and reefer shipping line J. Lauritzen), fast-expanding Danish global forwarder and logistics service provider DSV has purchased a quarter of Scandinavian ro-ro shipping
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A single certificate for safer navigation on European inland waterways
January 08 - As of 2009, vessels carrying the new European safety certificate are allowed to navigate on all rivers in the Union, including the Rhine.
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Project cargoes defy breakbulk trend in Antwerp
January 06 - By the end of 2008, the port of Antwerp handled around 190 million tonnes of freight, which represents growth of four percent compared with 2007 - the seventh record year in a row.
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Breadbox to West Africa
January 06 - Breadbox Shipping Lines, headquartered at Schiedam in the Netherlands now offers a new service from North Continental Europe to ports in West Africa which has the capacity to handle project cargoes on deck.
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Four companies vie for BIFA's project forwarding trophy
January 05 - Entries for the Freight Service Awards organised by the British International Freight Association (BIFA) - www.bifa.org - have reached a record level, demonstrating the high level of interest in the 2008 competition, which is celebrating its
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World's smallest shipment?
December 31 - Having spent the last 12 months reporting on the biggest items of cargoes, we end 2008 with the heart-warming story of what could well be the world's smallest shipment!
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Composite Technology's Dewind completes turbines for Chile
December 31 - The last five D8-2000 wind turbines for a wind power generation project in Chile have been moved to the Port of Houston by Composite Technology Corporation's subsidiary DeWind Inc.
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First call at Hamburg for Grimaldi Lines Euro-Aegean service
December 29 - The sailing of the Grande Sicilia from Hamburg's Unikai Terminal on 27 December 2008 marked the start of calls at the port by Grimaldi Lines new Euro-Aegean service.
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Fairstar Fjell named
December 19 - Fairstar Heavy Transport NV (FAIR) held the naming ceremony of its second heavy transport vessel Fjell in Malta on Friday.
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Wave and tidal projects offer optimism to forwarders
December 18 - Eighty-six MW of wave and tidal current stream capacity will be installed world-wide in the next five years, according to a new survey.
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MacGregor gets orders
December 17 - Cargotec's MacGregor business has received orders worth close to EUR 30 million from China for ten shipsets of cranes, hatch covers and fixed container fittings for delivery in 2010-2011.
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DB Schenker claims new weight record with luxury yachts
December 17 - Schenker Deutschland AG has transported five yachts weighing 540 tonnes in total to the halls of the D
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UN General Assembly adopts new cargo rules
December 17 - The United Nations General Assembly adopted the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea on 11 December 2008.
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Gevelco-companies change name into Broekman
December 15 - After the expansion of Broekman Group's participation in Gevelco to 100 0n January 2007, the names of the various parts will be changed.