All articles by HeavyLiftPFI – Page 574

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    Doubts raised over business case for offshore wind power generation

    2011-07-05T00:00:00Z

    July 5 - A report by global business consultants, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, on the business case for the offshore wind power industry has determined that the industry "has some way to go to prove it can take its place as a sustainable part of the energy mix

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    Bennett DriveAway launches upgraded website

    2011-07-05T00:00:00Z

    July 5 - Georgia-based high and heavy vehicle transport company Bennett DriveAway has launched a new website for corporate customers.

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    Full steam ahead for project cargo forwarders from UAE rail project

    2011-07-05T00:00:00Z

    July 5 - Project cargo forwarders could be on track to win lucrative contracts to move sleepers for the Gulf region's first major rail network.

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    African demand for heavy lift set to grow beyond 2021

    2011-07-05T00:00:00Z

    July 5 - Africa is one of the few regions of the world where there is genuine expectation of large scale heavy lift growth in the next decade, claims global shipping forwarder and agent Tuscor Lloyds.

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    The Italian job fails to defeat Tuscor Lloyds

    2011-07-04T00:00:00Z

    July 4 - A perfect storm of public holidays, unsafe and illegal material handling equipment as well as road works along the projected route greeted global project cargo specialists Tuscor Lloyds when it handled a significant high and heavy load after disc

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    Super Freight claims a record with ship hull moves

    2011-07-04T00:00:00Z

    July 4 - Super Freight, a Mumbai-based project freight forwarder, arranged the delivery of two ship hull sections in a move it describes as a "first of its kind in India".

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    Largest crane yet for Bin Quraya

    2011-07-04T00:00:00Z

    July 4 - Bin Quraya Est has taken delivery of a Liebherr LTM 1500-8.1 mobile crane from the Liebherr-Werk Ehingen GmbH plant. The 500-tonne crane is now the largest unit in the 250-strong crane fleet of the Saudi Arabian company, writes Jamie May.

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    Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics makes senior appointments

    2011-07-04T00:00:00Z

    July 4 - Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL) has added two senior officers to its global executive management team.

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    Jumbo Shipping opens for business in Bremen

    2011-07-01T00:00:00Z

    July 1 - Dutch heavy lift shipping company, Jumbo Shipping has opened a representative office in Bremen, Germany, in cooperation with German independent breakbulk and heavy lift shipbroker Coli Schiffahrt & Transport KG.

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    Project cargo powers double-digit growth at Bilbao

    2011-07-01T00:00:00Z

    July 1 - General conventional goods at Bilbao port, helped by project cargo activity, rose by 14 percent in the first three months of the year. Project cargo at the Spanish Atlantic port includes machinery, wind energy equipment, rail carriages, buses, pa

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    BACA launches escrow account to secure deposits

    2011-07-01T00:00:00Z

    July 1 - London-based BACA (Baltic Air Charter Association) has launched an escrow facility to provide a secure deposit for funds being paid in advance by customers for air charters.

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    InterMax busy with China projects

    2011-06-30T00:00:00Z

    June 30 - Shanghai-based InterMax Logistics Solution (ITM) is busy with various project cargo shipments, handling construction cranes, gantry cranes and windmill equipment.

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    Albacor's move to Miami

    2011-06-30T00:00:00Z

    June 30 - Albacor Shipping's Banning, California office handled the shipment of a heavy transformer from Savannah Port to Miami, Florida.

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    New ship deal for NSCSA

    2011-06-29T00:00:00Z

    June 29 - The National Shipping Co. of Saudi Arabia has signed a 'murabaha' financing agreement with the Saudi British Bank (SABB) and the National Commercial Bank for SR822.6 million (USD219.3 million) that will finance 80 percent of the cost to construc

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    Miguel Salas is CEVA's project cargo manager for Iberia

    2011-06-29T00:00:00Z

    June 29 - CEVA Logistics has appointed Miguel Salas as freight management project cargo manager in Iberia

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    Port of Hartlepool calls for government transparency on renewable energy

    2011-06-29T00:00:00Z

    June 29 - The Port of Hartlepool, UK, has hosted a ministerial visit by Charles Hendry, minister of state for the UK's Department of Energy and Climate Change, and used the opportunity to call for more clarity in the UK government's renewable energy polic

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    ALL for one, one for ALL

    2011-06-29T00:00:00Z

    June 29 - The ALL Erection & Crane Rental Corp has opened a Louisiana branch, located centrally between Baton Rouge and New Orleans in Geismar, Louisiana. This opening brings to 31 the number of yards operated by the company and is set to target the stron

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    Cruz doubles up IL-76TD flights for significant client

    2011-06-29T00:00:00Z

    June 29 - Almaty, Kazakhstan-based project cargo forwarder Cruz Logistics recently required two IL-76TD journeys on consecutive days to move four load banks from Fujairah, UAE to Uralsk, Kazakhstan for a significant customer.

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    Medden sums up 2011 first half

    2011-06-29T00:00:00Z

    June 29 - Turkish project cargo shipping agency Medden Shipping has been involved in a number of project cargo shipments around the Turkish coastline in the first half of 2011.

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    To Russia with love through Novorossiysk

    2011-06-28T00:00:00Z

    June 28 - Novorossiysk Port Terminal, in Russia's main port on the Black Sea, has recently played host to two significant high and heavy movements.