All Heavy Lift & Project Forwarding International articles in July 2014 – Page 2

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    German shipping's 'significant change'

    2014-07-29T00:00:00Z

    "In view of the unexpectedly long crisis, the German shipping industry is undergoing significant change," says Michael Behrendt, president of the German Shipowners Association (VDR), in its latest annual report.

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    Long Beach re-elects Drummond

    2014-07-29T00:00:00Z

    July 29 - The Long Beach board of harbour commissioners has re-elected Doug Drummond as president of the board for the next 12 months.

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    Airbus milestone for Hamburg

    2014-07-29T00:00:00Z

    July 29 - The 200th shipment for Airbus' A320 final assembly line in Tianjin, China has been loaded onto the containership COSCO Hope at the Hamburger Hafen und Logistik (HHLA) container terminal Tollerort.

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    Valemon topsides installed

    2014-07-28T00:00:00Z

    July 28 - The Statoil topsides for the Valemon field in the North Sea have been lifted into place on a steel jacket by the crane vessel Saipem 7000.

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    Westermeerwind gets green light

    2014-07-28T00:00:00Z

    July 28 - Westermeerwind bv has reached financial close for the turnkey construction of the Westermeerwind wind farm in IJsselmeer. Work will now begin on the building of the 48 wind turbines.

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    Martin Bencher ships dozen

    2014-07-28T00:00:00Z

    July 28 - Martin Bencher has shipped a 15,000 freight tonne project, including 12 engines each weighing 290 tonnes, from Italy to Port Isabel in Texas.

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    Costa Concordia arrives

    2014-07-28T00:00:00Z

    July 28 - Titan Salvage and Micoperi have confirmed that the Costa Concordia has been safely moored at the Port of Genoa Voltri in Italy, marking the completion of one of the largest maritime salvage jobs in history.

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    THT impresses Aramex and Tatweer

    2014-07-28T00:00:00Z

    July 28 - Turk Heavy Transport (THT) has recently handled an out-of-gauge consignment for Aramex Bahrain and Tatweer Petroleum.

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    GAC appoints Schensema

    2014-07-28T00:00:00Z

    July 28 - GAC has appointed Claus Schensema to take the helm of GAC North America Logistics in Houston, Texas.

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    All change at Allseas

    2014-07-28T00:00:00Z

    July 28 - Allseas Global Logistics is starting an exciting new chapter in its development, following a change in ownership structure.

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    Algeria calls for Van der Vlist

    2014-07-28T00:00:00Z

    July 28 - Van der Vlist has delivered 27 machines, including excavators, wheel loaders and bulldozers weighing a total of 1,000 tonnes, to Algeria.

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    Unexpected weak trading at Air Partner

    2014-07-28T00:00:00Z

    July 28 - Air Partner's freight division continues to show progress, albeit from a low base, but this was offset by weaker than expected group trading in the period since the company's AGM in June.

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    B747-8F makes Stuttgart debut

    2014-07-28T00:00:00Z

    July 28 - Chapman Freeborn has successfully coordinated a B747-8F cargo charter to transport a 77-tonne load from Stuttgart, Germany to Houston in the USA.

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    Tecade superstructure takes to the sea

    2014-07-25T00:00:00Z

    July 25 - A Tecade-manufactured offshore structure weighing 325 tonnes is being shipped from the port of Seville to Invergordon, Scotland for use in the Inch Cape offshore wind farm in the North Sea.

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    In 'ore' of Universal Transport

    2014-07-25T00:00:00Z

    July 25 - Universal Transport has delivered equipment destined for an iron ore mining project in Australia.

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    McDermott wins Megalodon move

    2014-07-25T00:00:00Z

    July 25 - A McDermott International subsidiary has secured the contract to transport and install the Megalodon oil and gas platform in the Gulf of Mexico.

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    Volga-Dnepr comes to the rescue

    2014-07-25T00:00:00Z

    July 25 - Volga-Dnepr Group's Engineering and Logistics Centre (ELC) developed a special loading frame for Panalpina to move a 30-tonne shipment of oil and gas equipment onboard an IL-76TD-90VD.

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    R&B ships boat trio

    2014-07-25T00:00:00Z

    July 25 - Croatia's R&B Global Projects has chartered space on a multipurpose heavy lift vessel in order to ship three crewboats from Kobe, Japan to the Sharjah Hamriyah free zone port in the UAE.

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    Pontoons on Blue Water

    2014-07-25T00:00:00Z

    July 25 - Blue Water Shipping has transported two 4,500-tonne oil rig pontoons from the Philippines to Singapore on board Pan Ocean's semi-submersible heavy lift vessel Sun Shine.

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    Belgium and Mexico cooperate

    2014-07-25T00:00:00Z

    July 25 - Belgium's Polytra and Portlog International Mexico, both members of the Worldwide Project Consortium (WWPC), have worked together to transport outsize transformers from ABB Mexico to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.