All Heavy haulage and trailers articles – Page 143

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    Hiring round marks industry's health

    2010-10-19T00:00:00Z

    October 19 - A round of worldwide hiring in the heavy lift and project shipping sectors suggest that pressure on bottom lines around the world is easing.

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    GPLN signs up Fleet Line Shipping Services

    2010-10-19T00:00:00Z

    October 19 - Dubai-based Fleet Line Shipping Services has joined the Global Projects Logistics Network (GPLN).

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    Third time still lucky for Agility in Asia

    2010-10-19T00:00:00Z

    October 19 - Project cargo and heavy lift operator Agility has won the prestigious Logistics Award for the third year in a row at the Lloyd's List Asia Awards ceremony in Singapore.

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    TT Club in appeal for increased vigilance in crane structural safety

    2010-10-18T00:00:00Z

    October 18 - A global transport and logistics insurer is calling for increased attention to structural surveying of quay cranes as part of its ongoing drive towards loss prevention.

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    Magdenli Transport four-square in heavy lift operations

    2010-10-15T00:00:00Z

    October 15 - A quartet of heavy lift movements have been completed by Ankara-based project forwarder Magdenli Transport and Trade.

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    Tschudi Project boxes clever on boiler shipment

    2010-10-15T00:00:00Z

    October 15 - Project shipping company, Tschudi Project Transports has recently successfully completed the shipment of a major consignment from Asia to a construction site in northwest Europe.

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    Is heavylift cargo airship more than hot air?

    2010-10-14T00:00:00Z

    October 14 - It might have come from the set designers of Star Wars or the pen of sci-fi genius HG Wells but an Australian proposal to construct a 150 m-diameter flying saucer-like balloon could be the next big thing in heavy lift operations.

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    Tandem lift for Beluga Stavanger

    2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

    October 12 - Kurt, a working civil engineering platform belonging to Tiefbau GmbH Unterweser (TAGU) 50 m long and 22 m wide, and weighing almost 1,000 tonnes proved a challenging cargo for the two cranes of the multipurpose heavy lift project vessel Belug

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    Big lift at The Storage Place

    2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

    October 11 - Edinburgh-based Aquamarine Power has used The Storage Place to store a full scale test rig which had completed its initial trials at the NaREC (the National Renewable Energy Centre) in Blyth, UK and need to move to a temporary storage area.

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    Two years of planning pays off for SRT

    2010-10-08T00:00:00Z

    October 8 - Houston-based Specialized Rail Transport (SRT) has completed a rail-borne heavy lift shipment that broke records and took two years in planning.

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    Sarens Group has hectic summer

    2010-10-08T00:00:00Z

    October 8 - Heavy lift crane contractor Sarens Group has enjoyed a hectic six months to October, says CEO Wim Sarens.

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    Project cargo doubles at Rotterdam in first half

    2010-10-08T00:00:00Z

    October 8 - The first six months of 2010 saw project cargo tonnage at Rotterdam port double over the same period in 2009, say port managers, as the port witnessed some strategic improvements in heavy lift shipping at the port.

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    Heavy International Services adds modular transporter

    2010-10-08T00:00:00Z

    October 8 - Antwerp-based heavy lift company Heavy International Services has acquired a new 300 tonne-capacity modular self-propelled vehicle.

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    Ahlers reveals global scope of project cargo activity

    2010-10-08T00:00:00Z

    October 8 - Antwerp-based project cargo forwarder Ahlers Forwarding has revealed a range of heavy lift and project cargo activity that the company has undertaken in global markets; so far this year.

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    Antwerp Port freezes 2011 rates as massive investment programme unveiled

    2010-10-08T00:00:00Z

    October 8 - Managers at Antwerp Port Authority have given the global heavy lift maritime industry an early Christmas present - a massive EUR1.6 billion investment programme and a freezing of dues next year at 2010 rates.

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    GAC-USA inter-branch cooperation delivers heavy lift success

    2010-10-06T00:00:00Z

    October 6 - Collaboration was the key when three GAC USA offices on the Gulf of Mexico worked together recently to deliver the goods onto a heavy lift ship.

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    Canadian truckers buy heavy lift haulage specialist

    2010-10-06T00:00:00Z

    October 6 - Challenger Motor Freight, of Cambridge, Ontario and has acquired most of the assets of Sandrock Specialized Carriers, a special commodities carrier focusing on transporting heavy equipment and over-dimensional freight, established ten years ag

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    Heavy lift operators set to benefit for UK platform removal

    2010-10-05T00:00:00Z

    October 5 - According to a new report by Deloitte and Douglas-Westwood, decommissioning the 260-plus platforms off the ocast of the UK over the next three decades could cost over USD30 billion and exceed the capacities of both the current heavy lift vesse

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    Special berth arranged for GAC heavy lift

    2010-10-01T00:00:00Z

    October 1 - A recent heavy lift move at Dubai's Jebel Ali port required managers to arrange a special berth to allow the 1,000 tonne consignment to be loaded in a timely and efficient manner.

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    Liebherr delivers one of the largest mobile harbour cranes

    2010-09-29T00:00:00Z

    September 29 - Liebherr claims to have delivered the largest mobile harbor crane on the east coast of the USA to Rukert Terminals, Baltimore where it was officially commissioned for service.