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    Share issue for Tiong Woon

    2009-10-08T00:00:00Z

    October 8 - Up to 34 million ordinary shares are to be issued by Tiong Woon Corporation (TWC) raise funds for the acquisition of more heavy lifting equipment.

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    Model shipment for Kuehne + Nagel

    2009-10-08T00:00:00Z

    October 8 - K + N handled the logistics of a full size model of the AVE train that, in 2015, will link the capital of Grand Canaria with the South of the island in the first phase and the North in the second.

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    Varamar builds its presence

    2009-10-07T00:00:00Z

    October 7 - Odessa based, Varamar is building its presence in the project and general cargo arena.

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    Boeing 747-8F first flight and delivery delayed again

    2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

    October 6 - Boeing has confirmed that the first flight of the 747-8 freighter will be delayed until early next year with the first delivery also delayed until the fourth quarter of 2010.

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    Canadian truckers buy heavy lift haulage specialist

    2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

    October 6 - Challenger Motor Freight, of Cambridge, Ontario and has acquired most of the assets of Sandrock Specialized Carriers, a special commodities carrier focusing on transporting heavy equipment and over-dimensional freight, established ten years ag

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    New president for FIATA

    2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

    October 6 - Jean-Claude Delen from Belgium has been elected President of FIATA - the International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations - for a term of office of two years.

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    Maximus Air Cargo carries UAE relief to Indonesia

    2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

    October 5 - Maximus Air Cargo has carried the UAE Urban Search and Rescue Team to Padang in Sumatra in response to the devastating earthquake suffered on the island

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    Conference focuses on heavy lift airships

    2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

    October 5 - Heavy lift cargo airships are the focus of the fifth annual Airships to the Arctic conference, to be held this week in Calgary.

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    AirBridgeCargo Airlines to serve Almaty from Amsterdam

    2009-10-02T00:00:00Z

    October 2 - AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC), part of Volga-Dnepr Group, is launching a new Boeing 747 freighter service from Amsterdam, one of its European gateways, to Almaty in Kazakhstan.

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    Genel on the move

    2009-10-02T00:00:00Z

    October 2 - Genel Transport Forwarding & Trade has a new HQ in Istanbul.

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    PD Ports sees positive results from safety suggestion scheme

    2009-10-02T00:00:00Z

    October 2 - PD Ports is seeing positive results from a group-wide safety suggestion scheme launched last year and aimed at finding practical and cost effective solutions for further improving the safety of the company's working environment.

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    Hedge funds twice rebuffed by BBI

    2009-10-01T00:00:00Z

    October 1 - A refinancing proposal from a group of international hedge funds has been rejected by the board of Babcock & Brown Infrastructure (BBI), the majority shareholder of Luxembourg-based Euroports, writes James Graham.

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    Rickmers-Linie and Eastern Car Liner expand Trans Pacific cooperation

    2009-10-01T00:00:00Z

    October 1 - Rickmers-Linie and Eastern Car Liner will expand their cooperation in the Trans Pacific trade.

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    New website design for the Port of Hamburg

    2009-10-01T00:00:00Z

    October 1 - The website of the port of Hamburg has recently been completely re- designed, writes Charlotte Matheson.

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    Crane order proves right for Ainscough

    2009-09-30T00:00:00Z

    September 30 - Ainscough Crane Hire has reported consistent demand for its recently increased fleet of heavy lift crawler cranes, writes Charlotte Matheson.

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    New port director for Houston

    2009-09-30T00:00:00Z

    September 30 - Alec G. Dreyer is the new executive director of the Port of Houston Authority.

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    RMR Shipping rolls into Dublin

    2009-09-30T00:00:00Z

    September 30 - RMR Shipping has added the port of Dublin to one of its services between Europe and West Africa, writes Charlotte Matheson.

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    C.A.T.T secures electricity supply to SFAX power plant

    2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

    September 29 - Tunisian specialised transport company C.A.T.T, a member of the global network Cargo Equipment Experts (CEE), has been selected to arrange transportation of a turbine weighing 205 tonnes, a 201 tonne alternator and 54 tonnes of auxiliary eq

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    Project Forwarders off to Kuala Lumpur

    2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

    September 29 - The Worldwide Project Consortium (WWPC) will be celebrating its 10th Annual conference at the Westin Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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    European Commission adopts new Block Exemption Regulation

    2009-09-28T00:00:00Z

    September 28 - The European Commission has adopted a new Block Exemption Regulation revising the current exemption for liner shipping consortia from the EC Treaty's ban on restrictive business practices (Article 81).