All Heavy haulage and trailers articles – Page 149
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Out with the old, in with the new
June 4 - ALE recently helped with the replacement of an old with a new stator at the Laguna Verde Nuclear Power Plant project in Mexico.
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STX Pan Ocean wins semi-sub contract
June 4 - STX Pan Ocean has won a shipbuilding contract worth at least USD40 million to build a semi-submersible heavy lift vessel.
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Virginia targets heavy lift and breakbulk cargoes after box move
June 3 - The Virginia Port Authority is making a concerted effort to attract more heavy lift project cargoes, breakbulk and ro-ro cargoes.
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Slowdown in US wind energy installations forecast
June 1 - A study from IHS Emerging Energy Research forecasts that 6.3 to 7.1 GW of wind energy installations could be installed in the USA in 2010, 40 to 60 percent lower than the 9.8 GW installed last year.
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Wartsila wins contract to power semi-sub
May 31 - Wartsila, a leading ship power systems integrator, has signed a contract to deliver a ship power system for a 38,000 tonne semi-submersible heavy lift vessel for Chinese customer Zhejiang Share-ever Business Co., Ltd.
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Fair wind blows for project group members
May 31 - A fair wind is blowing for members of the project cargo specialist network, the Project Professionals Group in the wind energy sector.
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A2SEA wins Ormonde Offshore Wind Farm contract
May 31 - Leading European energy company, Vattenfall, has awarded a contract to A2SEA for the transport of 30 5MW RePower turbines from Belfast Harbour to the Ormonde Offshore Wind Farm, 10 km off the coast of Barrow-in-Furness in the Irish Sea.
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Obama halts new offshore oil drilling for six months
May 28 - As a result of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, US president Obama has extended a moratorium on new offshore oil drilling by six months.
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London Thamesport handles high-energy specialist cargo
May 27 - London Thamesport is playing its part in an international energy operation, having taken delivery of a second transformer for the organisation BritNed.
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Ship in bottle lands on Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth
May 27 - London witnessed an unusual heavy lift recently when a replica of Lord Nelson's ship Victory, set inside a giant bottle and made by artist Yinka Shonibare, became the latest addition to the fourth plinth in historic Trafalgar Square.
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Alstom outlines plans for US wind turbine assembly facility
May 26 - Alstom has announced plans for the next phase of the company's entry into the North American wind power market.
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Logistics providers eye US wind power show
May 24 - The 2010 American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) Conference in Dallas, Texas, May 23-26, 2010 is proving very interesting for project forwarders and others involved in the logistics of wind farm development.
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Heavy lift goes on line at St John
May 21 - The Saint John Port Authority in Canada has launched a website to provide "one stop shopping for those looking to ship breakbulk and project cargo," says the authority.
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Emmert International and Mammoet USA pick up hauling awards
May 21 - The Specialized Carriers & Rigging Association (SC&RA) has awarded two heavy lift companies its Hauling Job of the Year Awards.
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Hovercraft museum comes of age with red plaque
May 21 - One of the United Kingdom's most historical and notable transport locations has been recognised by the award of a striking commemorative plaque to a museum in the south of England which now occupies the site.
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SC&RA Rigging Job of the Year Awards
May 20 - The Specialized Carriers & Rigging Association (SC&RA) has announced the winners of its 2010 Rigging Job of the Year Awards.
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Trying times for shipping, but not terminal
May 19 - These might be trying times for heavy lift shipping lines, but they are not necessarily terminal. That's the view of Fred Bedford, a member of the board of Jumbo Shipping, speaking at the Breakbulk Europe event. Ian Matheson reports from Antwerp.
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Antwerp scores tank hat-trick
May 18 - Brabo, the Port of Antwerp's heavy lift floating crane, was put to use handling three gas bullet tanks weighing 382 tonnes each on behalf of freight forwarder, MaxTrans.
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Hamburg in modest Q1 cargo recovery
May 18 - Figures released by the Port of Hamburg show that heavy lift cargo, as well as most conventional, non-grab cargo is increasingly being sidelined at the northern German gateway.
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Chinese order for Converteam
May 17 - China Offshore Oil Engineering Co. Ltd, (COOEC), the largest offshore engineering company in China for integrated services and a subsidiary of China National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC), has awarded Converteam a contract valued in excess of GBP6