All Heavy Lift & Project Forwarding International articles in January 2014 – Page 6
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Handling performance up at the port of Kiel
January 15 - The port of Keil's cargo handling increased by 0.2 percent in 2013, compared with 2012, with its rail/ship intermodal handling business seeing an increase of 14.7 percent to 24,000 cargo units.
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Tuscor Lloyds goes transatlantic
January 15 - Tuscor Lloyds has transported a 17.3-tonne tracked scoop loader machine from the Rota military base in Cadiz, Spain to Alabama in the USA.
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Double vessel delivery for TOS
January 15 - TOS has begun the delivery of a German coaster vessel and Belgian inland pusher from the port of Waalhaven in Rotterdam, the Netherlands to South America.
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NCHO receives cargo via Iran
January 15 - NCHO Marine & Logistics, a subsidiary of Singapore headquartered Neptune Centuries Holding Pte Ltd, has announced that it is accepting cargo to all destinations within the CIS and Afghanistan via the port of Bandar Abbas in southern Iran.
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STX gets a boost
January 15 - STX Corp, the holding company of Korean conglomerate STX Group, has agreed to salvage the firm in the form of a USD660.3 million debt-to-equity swap, say reports from the South Korean media.
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ALE lifts topside
January 15 - Heavy transportation and lifting provider, ALE, has used a uniquely designed gantry system to perform the lift and mating operation of a 10,000-tonne topside at Drydocks World for the semisubmersible HVDC platform DolWin Beta.
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IRU publishes safe road transport paper
January 14 - The International Road Transport Union (IRU) has published its International Guidelines in Safe Load Securing for Road Transport, in response to "the gap in global guidance for professionals involved in transporting loads by road", said IRU s
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Sacyr details Panama cost overruns
January 14 - Spanish construction company Sacyr, leader of the Panama Canal expansion project consortium, is in danger of losing USD574 million in guarantees and advance payments if a dispute regarding cost overruns is not resolved.
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Left Coast Lifter en route to New York
January 14 - One of the world's largest floating cranes, Left Coast Lifter, has begun its four-day voyage through the Panama Canal en route to New York, USA.
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Knaack-Krane buys Liebherr lift
January 14 - Hamburg, Germany based crane rental firm Knaack-Krane has taken delivery of a new 750-tonne capacity Liebherr LTM 1750-9.1 mobile crane.
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Stoltenberg joins Deutsche Bank
January 14 - Klaus Stoltenberg is to join the Deutsche Bank as its new global head of shipping on April 15, 2014.
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GAC Australia signs contract with MOL
January 14 - Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has awarded an exclusive three-year contract to GAC Australia, part of the GAC Group, to serve its vessels and port calls across Australia.
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Governor announces funding at JAXPORT
January 14 - Florida Governor, Rick Scott has visited Jacksonville Port Authority's (JAXPORT) Blount Island Marine Terminal to announce plans for a historic USD8.8 billion of funding for transportation improvements.
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Tight squeeze for ZTT
January 13 - Zwaar Transport Twente (ZTT), a member of the Van der Vlist Group, has delivered a 30-tonne biogas generator from the Nordrhein - Westfalen area of Germany to North Lincolnshire in the UK.
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Universal in Paraguay transhipment
January 13 - Paraguay based project forwarder Universal Shipping Agency has transhipped a consignment of dismantled cranes in Nueva Palmira, destined for a shipyard in Asunci
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SDV Horoz gains engine power
January 13 - SDV Horoz Projects has handled the shipment of a second hand 275-tonne Wartsila engine from Samsun, Turkey to Kalecik in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
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Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics receives draft cease and desist order
January 13 - Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL) has received a draft cease and desist order and a draft surcharge order from the Japanese Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) indicating that WWL, as one of several companies in the industry, has been involved in