All articles by HeavyLiftPFI – Page 173

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    Life's a beach for SAL

    2016-03-14T00:00:00Z

    March 14 - SAL Heavy Lift is currently engaged in the North Deck project for the Burj Al Arab hotel in Dubai, which sees the German heavy lift line tasked with delivering a 10,000 sq m luxury platform from Finland.

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    Blue Water brings Sandbank to close

    2016-03-14T00:00:00Z

    March 14 - Blue Water Shipping has acted as stevedores for Bilfinger Marine & Offshore Systems in connection with the installation of foundations for the Sandbank offshore wind farm in the North Sea.

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    Q Plant invests in Kobelco

    2016-03-14T00:00:00Z

    March 14 - UK based Q Crane & Plant Hire has taken delivery of its second Kobelco CKE 1350G lattice boom crawler crane, with a lifting capacity of 135 tonnes at 4.5 m.

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    Algeria calls for Detra

    2016-03-11T00:00:00Z

    March 11 - German company Schiffahrts-Kontor Detra has launched a new liner service - Detra Mediterranean Shipping (DMS) - between Europe and Algeria, which will accept breakbulk, steel, project and heavy lift cargoes.

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    WWPC duo conquer Andes

    2016-03-11T00:00:00Z

    March 11 - Member of the Worldwide Project Consortium (WWPC) in France, B & B International, has worked together with fellow WWPC member, Solot Peru, to ship a ropeway from France and Italy to the South American nation.

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    CP boss faces battle

    2016-03-11T00:00:00Z

    March 11 - Canadian Pacific Railway ceo Hunter Harrison is facing an uphill battle to convince CSX - not just Norfolk Southern - of the merits of a merger.

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    Enerpac wins rotor contract

    2016-03-11T00:00:00Z

    March 11 - Enerpac has been awarded a contract by S.T. Cotter Turbine Services to build a rotor removal system.

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    Everett inks park sale deal

    2016-03-11T00:00:00Z

    March 11 - The Port of Everett commission has authorised the ceo to enter into a purchase and sale agreement with KW Projects for approximately 16.74 acres (6.7 ha) of the port's Riverside Business Park.

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    Fednav gets off to early start

    2016-03-11T00:00:00Z

    March 11 - Fednav has begun its North Atlantic liner service early this year, with the first ship of the season, Federal Danube, leaving the Port of Brake, Germany destined for the Great Lakes.

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    Port of Gothenburg to expand

    2016-03-11T00:00:00Z

    March 11 - Sweden's Port of Gothenburg has been granted consent to build a new freight terminal beside its existing terminals, which should be completed some time after 2020.

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    PCN members keep on moving

    2016-03-11T00:00:00Z

    March 11 - Member of the Project Cargo Network (PCN) in Oman, Khimji Ramdas Project & Logistics Group, has coordinated the transport of eight 33-tonne bitumen storage tanks from Sohar Port to a site in Rumez.

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    Oil prices rise but worst not over

    2016-03-11T00:00:00Z

    March 11 - While oil prices have “recovered remarkably” in recent weeks, this should not “be taken as a definitive sign that the worst is necessarily over,” the International Energy Agency warned in its latest monthly report.

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    AAL and Peter Döhle line up

    2016-03-10T00:00:00Z

    March 10 - AAL and Peter Döhle (PD) have launched a new joint semi-liner service connecting Asia, the Middle East and Europe.

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    Air charter broker signs exclusive deal

    2016-03-10T00:00:00Z

    March 10 - Chapman Freeborn Airchartering and RUS Aviation have signed an exclusive cargo sales agreement, which aims to provide clients with airfreight solutions from Hong Kong to the Middle East and surrounding markets.

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    ALE bridges Canadian gap

    2016-03-10T00:00:00Z

    March 10 - ALE has completed the skidding, moving and lifting of a 1,000-tonne main arch as part of the Walterdale Bridge replacement project in Edmonton, Canada.

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    Intermarine trio undergoes retrofit

    2016-03-10T00:00:00Z

    March 10 - Carbon War Room (CWR) has joined forces with shipowner Hammonia Reederei and operator Intermarine to retrofit three sister vessels - Industrial Ruby, Industrial Royal, and Industrial Revolution - with efficiency technologies, intended to produc

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    Kaleido winds up Mexican project

    2016-03-10T00:00:00Z

    March 10 - Kaleido has completed a project to transport components for 43 wind turbines from China, Vietnam and Spain to the Mexican Port of Altamira for installation at a wind farm site in Jalisco.

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    DHL meets 2015 forecast

    2016-03-09T00:00:00Z

    March 9 - Deutsche Post DHL Group posted a consolidated EBIT for 2015 of EUR2.41 billion (USD2.64 billion), which was in line with its forecast.

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    Boom Lock report released

    2016-03-09T00:00:00Z

    March 9 - BVG Associates has released a report analysing the effects of increasing the wind speed limit for wind turbine component lifts, based on using High Wind's Boom Lock tool.

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    Boskalis weathers the storm

    2016-03-09T00:00:00Z

    March 9 - While the company's revenue rose 2.3 percent year-on-year in 2015, Royal Boskalis Westminster achieved a net profit of EUR440 million (USD482 million), compared with EUR490 million (USD537 million) in 2014.