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    Outgrow paper, GACAG tells WCO members

    2012-10-16T00:00:00Z

    October 16 - Members of the World Customs Organization (WCO) should embrace and implement the principles of the Revised Kyoto Convention and shift from a dependency on paper documents to a full e-Customs environment, says the Global Air Cargo Advisory Gro

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    ILA / USMX talks update

    2012-10-16T00:00:00Z

    October 16 - Contract talks between the ILA (International Longshoremen's Association) and the USMX (United States Maritime Alliance) are making good progress on a number of difficult issues at the full committee and subcommittee levels.

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    Not all doom and gloom say project owners

    2012-10-15T00:00:00Z

    October 15 - Speaking in a conference session on the second day of the Breakbulk Americas event in Houston last week, representatives of five large EPC companies were upbeat on prospects for the project cargo industry, outlining that it was "not all gloom

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    Cuxhaven opens new heavy-duty berth

    2012-10-15T00:00:00Z

    October 15 - Following a EUR65 million (USD839.8 million) investment, a second offshore port terminal has been opened in Cuxhaven, Germany.

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    Shipowners' Club pegs premium rise

    2012-10-15T00:00:00Z

    October 15 - A developing trend in the number and quantum of higher value claims has led smaller tonnage specialist the Shipowners' Club to announce a general increase in premiums of 5 percent from February 20, 2013.

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    Cory plans for The Coldest Journey

    2012-10-15T00:00:00Z

    October 15 - UK based logistics experts Cory Brothers is providing agency and logistic services while the research ship Aghulas is berthed on the River Thames before embarking on a Transantarcticexpedition in December.

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    HAROPA visits Hamburg

    2012-10-15T00:00:00Z

    October 15 - HAROPA - the joint promotional effort of the French ports of Le Havre, Rouen and Paris - is continuing its international marketing tour with a presentation tomorrow October 16, 2012 in Hamburg, Germany

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    Terex pulls its weight on highway project

    2012-10-15T00:00:00Z

    October 15 - Three Terex crane models: a Terex RT 780 rough terrain; a Terex HC 110 hydraulic crawler; and a 230-tonne lift capacity Terex HC 230 crawler have been used to support construction efforts of the new Donald Bridge project on the Trans-Canada H

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    Damco acquires Pacific Network Global Logistics

    2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

    October 12 - Damco is set to acquire PacNet, a leading freight forwarder in China and Australia, with almost 400 employees and a turnover of USD180 million in its last financial year (2011), as well as offices in Italy, India, the UK and the USA.

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    Air Partner revamps website

    2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

    October 12 - Air Partner has unveiled a new website and refreshed its branding, with each division given sub-marques to, in the words of the company's PR company, 'help distinguish the diversity of the group's product offering'.

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    International Institute of Marine Surveying approved to deliver

    2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

    October 12 - The International Institute of Marine Surveying has been approved by Edexcel to deliver the first educational-approved BTEC Higher National Certificate (HNC) and BTEC Higher National Diploma (HND) in marine surveying.

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    Chapman Freeborn extends on board courier services

    2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

    October 12 - Chapman Freeborn Airchartering has further expanded its specialist On Board Courier (OBC) services with the launch of a new office in Hong Kong.

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    Clipper Projects invests in Brazil

    2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

    October 12 - In Brazil, Tropical Comercial Maritima, which has been operating as a commercial office for Clipper Lines since 1990, has changed its name to Clipper Projects Brasil Transportes Mar

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    Lift and Shift Engineering now operational in Oman

    2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

    October 12 - Lift and Shift Engineering Middle East LLC (LSEME), a joint venture between FASTCO LLC, an OHI Group company and India's Apurva Parikh Group Company - known as Lift and Shift India Pvt Ltd, has started operations in Oman.

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    The Friday Flyer

    2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

    October 12 - With HLPFI staff returning from the Air Cargo Forum in Atlanta and Houston's Breakbulk America event, it's all hands now back on deck at the office. Tales of joint ventures, takeovers and mergers throughout the industry have dominated this we

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    Clipper Group celebrates 40 years

    2012-10-11T00:00:00Z

    October 11 - October 1972 witnessed the founding of the first Clipper company by Torben G. Jensen and the company is now celebrating its 40th anniversary in shipping.

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    Guinness first for Almajdouie

    2012-10-11T00:00:00Z

    October 11 - The Almajdouie Group LLC, a member of both the Worldwide Project Consortium (WWPC) and the Cargo Equipment Experts (CEE) networks in Saudi Arabia, has become the first Saudi private company to appear in Guinness Book of World Records.

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    Shipping boss ponders on industry prospects

    2012-10-11T00:00:00Z

    October 11 - In a keynote address to delegates of the 2012 Breakbulk Americas conference at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston on October 10, 2012, Ron Widdows, CEO of Germany-based Rickmers-Linie, queried when there would be an economic pic

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    Holleman braves early winter weather

    2012-10-11T00:00:00Z

    October 11 - Holleman Bulgaria, a member of the Worlwide Project Consortium (WWPC) for Bulgaria, has transported a heavy turbine housing, plus accessories from Pleven, Bulgaria to Tydal, Norway.

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    Nurminen wins Outotec's business for delivery to Russia

    2012-10-11T00:00:00Z

    October 11 - Outotec has selected Nurminen Logistics, a member of the Cargo Equipment Experts (CEE) network in Finland, as its partner for the delivery of a concentrating plant to the Russian city of Chelyabinsk.