All Insight articles – Page 9

  • Burbo bankwind farm park, bojo wind
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    The UK’s green ambitions: A wind energy boost or hot air?

    2020-10-07T14:39:00Z

    At the Conservative Party conference, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledged GBP160 million (USD206 million) to upgrade ports and factories across the country that manufacture the next generation of wind turbines, vowing to make the coronavirus pandemic a catalyst for green growth.

  • offshore tidal, Blue Water Shipping has been involved with tidal energy trial projects in France.2
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    Tidal power awaits commercial surge

    The wave and tidal power sector is seeing increasing numbers of small-scale projects around the world, but has yet to develop into a major industry. However, many expect that will happen soon.

  • ABC tests vaccine transportation capabilities, sept 2020
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    ABC tests vaccine transport capabilities

    2020-09-29T09:45:00Z

    AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has transported 12 SkyCell containers from Hong Kong to Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

  • Air Partner, sept 2020
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    Global forwarding market takes a hit

    2020-09-28T15:43:00Z

    Global trade volumes in the second quarter of 2020 contracted 14.3 percent, compared to the same period of 2019 – more than the drop recorded during the financial crisis between the third quarter of 2008 and first quarter of 2009.

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    Brazilian logisticians plot survival path

    Brazil is in the throes of the pandemic while its economy faces headwinds from rising political uncertainty and low commodity prices. The timing is more than unfortunate, as the project logistics sector in the country was poised for growth. Sophie Barnes reports.

  • Letter to the editor big lift
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    Project logisticians must push back to survive

    Juan Gimenez has been involved in the shipping and project logistics business for almost 42 years. Now retired, he shares his thoughts on the current market, disappointed with how project freight forwarding in Spain has developed over time. The situation was bad enough even before the Covid-19 pandemic.

  • East Africa
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    Somaliland poised to challenge Djibouti in logistics arena

    Berbera port in Somaliland has the potential to become a real alternative to Djibouti, explains David Whitehouse. East Africa may also be about to see oil exploration off troubled Somalia.

  • First load-out of pin piles in South Korea
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    South Korean project logistics: battening down the hatches until storm clouds lift

    Given its heavy reliance on exports, South Korea has been hard hit by the slump in worldwide trade resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic. There are, however, reasons for optimism in the project market – for those who can survive the wait.

  • Chapman Freeborn delivers covid relief, sept 2020
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    Chapman Freeborn supplies Covid-19 cargo to Guinea

    2020-09-16T10:47:00Z

    Air charter broker Chapman Freeborn played a key role in the delivery of a mobile hospital onboard a Boeing 747 freighter from Johannesburg in South Africa, to Conakry in Guinea to support the region’s Covid-19 response.

  • Bertling Mining Project South America
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    Mining sector digs deep to lead logistics recovery

    Covid-19 disruption and commodity price volatility have caused delays to projects in all industry verticals. Despite the turbulence, mining projects appear to be better placed than most to ride out the crisis, writes David Kershaw.

  • p66 Mammoet has completed its scope at the Dangote projecct in Nigeria.
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    West Africa power projects set to lead logistics rebound

    Demand for power in West Africa has helped project cargo markets limit the impact of Covid-19. However, future recovery will depend on a solution to the region’s growing maritime security problems, reports David Whitehouse.

  • Mammoet semi submersible floating wind farm project Portugal.1
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    Larger turbines bring capacity pressures for project logistics

    Larger turbine components, the geographical spread of their location and increasing deployment of floating installations are presenting new challenges and investment requirements for logistics companies servicing the offshore wind power sector, writes Phil Hastings.

  • CraneWW - Guyana-shipment
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    Covid-19 and the future of the energy sector

    2020-08-28T10:35:00Z

    George Schutte, vice president energy services at Crane Worldwide Logistics, shares his thoughts on what the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic will be on the oil and gas sector.

  • U freight airline repairments august 2020
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    U-Freight keeps busy with airline repair shipments

    2020-08-26T12:34:00Z

    Despite the Covid-19 pandemic causing significant reduction in the movement of aircraft spares, engines, stabilisers, landing gear and electronics, airline repair companies are still requiring project moves, according to Hong Kong-based U-Freight.

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    Marguisa boosts service

    2020-08-26T10:10:00Z

    Marguisa will add the general cargo vessel UML Veronica to its service connecting Valencia in Spain with Bata in Equatorial Guinea to mitigate Covid-19 disruptions.

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    BIMCO and ICS to launch seafarer report

    2020-08-19T10:44:00Z

    BIMCO and the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) are preparing to launch the Seafarer Workforce Report (previously known as the Manpower Report), expected to be published in 2021.

  • Port of bilbao, august 2020
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    Bilbao positions itself as wind energy hub

    2020-08-18T09:53:00Z

    In 2019, the port of Bilbao in Spain handled 142,000 tonnes of wind turbine components. The sector is forecast to grow in the years ahead and the port is positioning itself as a hub for wind energy cargoes.

  • Ammonia gas carrier NYK, august 2020
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    Fuels of the future

    In order to achieve carbon neutrality in the future, the shipping industry needs to explore the commercial development of new fuels, and work is well under way. Synthetic fuels, ammonia, battery installations and hydrogen fuel cell solutions are battling for position.

  • AirBridgeCargo Airlines Volga Dnepr group delivers medical goods, august 2020
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    ABC’s medical delivery

    2020-08-06T09:37:00Z

    AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) – part of the Volga Dnepr Group – has transported 41 containers carrying sensitive medicine from Amsterdam in the Netherlands to Shanghai, China onboard its Boeing 747-8F.

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    Dogger Bank progresses as offshore wind booms in the UK

    2020-08-03T15:13:00Z

    The Dogger Bank offshore wind project off the coast of the UK is progressing, with the SSE Renewables and Equinor joint venture firming up agreements with key suppliers. Other offshore wind developments off the coast of the UK are also moving at pace.