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    CAT purrs for Alliance

    2014-10-23T00:00:00Z

    October 23 - Alliance Logistics has transported various CAT machinery from Morocco's Casablanca port to Hoorn in the Netherlands, using both road and sea transport.

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    BBC to introduce sulphur surcharge

    2014-10-23T00:00:00Z

    October 23 - BBC Chartering plans to introduce a low sulphur surcharge to offset additional costs incurred by switching to cleaner fuels in sulphur emission control areas (ECAs), effective January 1, 2015.

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    Crowley con-ro construction begins

    2014-10-23T00:00:00Z

    October 23 - VT Systems subsidiary VT Halter Marine has begun construction on the first of two LNG-powered con-ro ships for Crowley Maritime Corporation's liner services group, which the two companies originally contracted for in November 2013.

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    TransOcean completes project double

    2014-10-23T00:00:00Z

    October 23 - TransOcean Shipping recently executed two complex project shipments out of Austria.

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    Vogtle expansion gets a lift

    2014-10-23T00:00:00Z

    October 23 - An 81.6-tonne CA05 module has been installed at unit 3 of the Plant Vogtle nuclear power station in Burke County, near Waynesborough, Georgia.

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    ISS returns to Africa's east coast

    2014-10-22T00:00:00Z

    October 22 - Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS) has acted as port and discharging agents for Cosco Shipping's vessel Da De, which arrived at the Kenyan port of Mombasa with seven rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) cranes.

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    Johnson in bumper birthday project

    2014-10-22T00:00:00Z

    October 22 - Teeside, UK-based freight forwarder, Johnson Partners, has celebrated its tenth anniversary by completing its largest project shipment to date.

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    CLC Projects set for sixth conference

    2014-10-22T00:00:00Z

    October 22 - Established in 2012, CLC Projects Network says it is expecting at least 80 attendees from 61 companies at its sixth global conference, which will take place in Istanbul from November 16-17, 2014.

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    Columns rise at German refinery

    2014-10-22T00:00:00Z

    October 22 - Wagenborg has transported two large columns from a fabrication yard in Kleve to Karlsruhe, where they were installed onto their foundations at the Miro fuel refinery.

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    CP ends merger talks with CSX

    2014-10-22T00:00:00Z

    October 22 - Further to our report in last week's Friday Flyer, Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) has confirmed that exploratory talks held with CSX Corp about a possible merger have been terminated.

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    Houston, we have a vessel

    2014-10-22T00:00:00Z

    October 22 - BBC Chartering can now enjoy priority berthing and 24/7 serviceability in the Port of Houston, with the gateway's Manchester Terminal being named the carrier's dedicated North American hub.

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    Sarens puts Terex to the test

    2014-10-22T00:00:00Z

    October 22 - Sarens has used a Terex CC 8800-1 crawler crane with its recently acquired Boom Booster kit to erect an Enercon E-126 wind turbine at the Windpark Noordoostpolder in the Netherlands.

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    TPT opens in Aarhus

    2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

    October 21 - Tschudi Project Transports (TPT) will open a new office in Aarhus, Denmark on November 1.

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    Clearlake acquires AmQuip

    2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

    October 21 - Clearlake Capital Group has completed its acquisition of crane rental and lifting solutions provider AmQuip.

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    Slingmax appoints D'Elia

    2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

    October 21 - Slingmax Rigging Solutions has appointed Gregory D'Elia as its new engineering manager.

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    Cutting-edge counterweight concept

    2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

    October 21 - Liebherr has developed an innovative concept for erecting its 600-tonne capacity LR 1600/2 crawler cranes with long wind power boom systems.

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    Drum roll for D

    2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

    October 21 - One of Volga-Dnepr Airlines' IL-76-TD freighters has transported a heavy-duty steam drum from Germany's D

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    Hacklin thrusts forward

    2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

    October 21 - Hacklin Logistics has transported six heavy propulsion units, or thrusters, from Rauma, Finland to China.

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    Indiana's wind recovery

    2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

    October 21 - The Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor has handled its first shipment of windmill blades and towers for more than three years, as cargo traffic picked up on the Great Lakes.

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    Panalpina maintains stability

    2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

    October 21 - "We have managed to keep up profitability in the first nine months of the year," says Panalpina ceo Peter Ulber.