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Not all doom and gloom say project owners
October 15 - Speaking in a conference session on the second day of the Breakbulk Americas event in Houston last week, representatives of five large EPC companies were upbeat on prospects for the project cargo industry, outlining that it was "not all gloom
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Terex pulls its weight on highway project
October 15 - Three Terex crane models: a Terex RT 780 rough terrain; a Terex HC 110 hydraulic crawler; and a 230-tonne lift capacity Terex HC 230 crawler have been used to support construction efforts of the new Donald Bridge project on the Trans-Canada H
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Damco acquires Pacific Network Global Logistics
October 12 - Damco is set to acquire PacNet, a leading freight forwarder in China and Australia, with almost 400 employees and a turnover of USD180 million in its last financial year (2011), as well as offices in Italy, India, the UK and the USA.
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Clipper Projects invests in Brazil
October 12 - In Brazil, Tropical Comercial Maritima, which has been operating as a commercial office for Clipper Lines since 1990, has changed its name to Clipper Projects Brasil Transportes Mar
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Lift and Shift Engineering now operational in Oman
October 12 - Lift and Shift Engineering Middle East LLC (LSEME), a joint venture between FASTCO LLC, an OHI Group company and India's Apurva Parikh Group Company - known as Lift and Shift India Pvt Ltd, has started operations in Oman.
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International Institute of Marine Surveying approved to deliver
October 12 - The International Institute of Marine Surveying has been approved by Edexcel to deliver the first educational-approved BTEC Higher National Certificate (HNC) and BTEC Higher National Diploma (HND) in marine surveying.
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Chapman Freeborn extends on board courier services
October 12 - Chapman Freeborn Airchartering has further expanded its specialist On Board Courier (OBC) services with the launch of a new office in Hong Kong.
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The Friday Flyer
October 12 - With HLPFI staff returning from the Air Cargo Forum in Atlanta and Houston's Breakbulk America event, it's all hands now back on deck at the office. Tales of joint ventures, takeovers and mergers throughout the industry have dominated this we
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Air Partner revamps website
October 12 - Air Partner has unveiled a new website and refreshed its branding, with each division given sub-marques to, in the words of the company's PR company, 'help distinguish the diversity of the group's product offering'.
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No immediate consolidation of liner shipping industry foreseen
October 11 - A recent Alphaliner report suggests that the liner shipping industry is unlikely to see much consolidation in the foreseeable future despite the carriers' present financial difficulties.
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Holleman braves early winter weather
October 11 - Holleman Bulgaria, a member of the Worlwide Project Consortium (WWPC) for Bulgaria, has transported a heavy turbine housing, plus accessories from Pleven, Bulgaria to Tydal, Norway.
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Clipper Group celebrates 40 years
October 11 - October 1972 witnessed the founding of the first Clipper company by Torben G. Jensen and the company is now celebrating its 40th anniversary in shipping.
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Shipping boss ponders on industry prospects
October 11 - In a keynote address to delegates of the 2012 Breakbulk Americas conference at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston on October 10, 2012, Ron Widdows, CEO of Germany-based Rickmers-Linie, queried when there would be an economic pic
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Nurminen wins Outotec's business for delivery to Russia
October 11 - Outotec has selected Nurminen Logistics, a member of the Cargo Equipment Experts (CEE) network in Finland, as its partner for the delivery of a concentrating plant to the Russian city of Chelyabinsk.
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Guinness first for Almajdouie
October 11 - The Almajdouie Group LLC, a member of both the Worldwide Project Consortium (WWPC) and the Cargo Equipment Experts (CEE) networks in Saudi Arabia, has become the first Saudi private company to appear in Guinness Book of World Records.
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Great Yarmouth targets offshore energy industry
October 10 - In the UK, the management of Great Yarmouth outer harbour say that it is taking steps to make it more attractive as a base for the offshore energy industry.
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Specialized Rail Transport's railcars in demand
October 10 - Specialized Rail Transport says that its 20-axle railcar is on the move again and in higher demand than ever.SRT reports that it has handled the movement of a generator and turbine, totaling nearly 300 tonnes to a US power plant in the Caroli
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Prangl keeps Romanian tram on track
October 10 - Austrian logistics company Prangl GmbH has handled the shipment of a tram from Romania to Germany.
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Cardinal Maritime restructures ownership
October 10 - Manchester, UK-based freight logistics provider, Cardinal Maritime Group, has completed a deal with founder Brian Hay that has delivered control of the business to the management team.
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Teesport sees a million tonnes of SSI slab steel
October 10 - SSI UK has recently achieved a major milestone having exported over one million tonnes of steel slab through PD Ports-owned Teesport in the UK.