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Russia grounds cargo planes after accident
October 9 - The Press Association has reported that the Russian air force has grounded all its Ilyushin Il-76 heavy lift cargo planes for checks, after an accident in which an engine broke off the wing of an aircraft just before take-off.
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Canadians sail in for PD Ports
October 9 - PD Ports is to be bought by a Canadian asset management company as part of an AUD1.5bn-plus recapitalisation by Babcock & Brown Infrastructure (BBI), which has been under pressure to sell assets to reduce its debt.
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Leipzig-Halle Airport to host TIACA
October 8 - Leipzig-Halle Airport is to host The International Air Cargo Association's (TIACA) Executive Summit and Annual General Meeting, which will take place on May 16-18, 2010. The German airport is served by 24 airlines flying to 17 countries and of
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SeaMetric cancels contracts for heavy lift vessels
October 8 - SeaMetric International AS has cancelled the contracts for the construction of two heavy transport vessels in China.
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Share issue for Tiong Woon
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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Lift & Shift claims Indian record
October 8 - Lift and Shift India Pvt. Ltd (LSPL), part of the Natvar Parikh Group, claims to have transported India's largest and heaviest module.
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Model shipment for Kuehne + Nagel
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
October 7 - Odessa based, Varamar is building its presence in the project and general cargo arena.
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New president for FIATA
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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Canadian truckers buy heavy lift haulage specialist
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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Boeing 747-8F first flight and delivery delayed again
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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Maximus Air Cargo carries UAE relief to Indonesia
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
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
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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PD Ports sees positive results from safety suggestion scheme
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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New website design for the Port of Hamburg
October 1 - The website of the port of Hamburg has recently been completely re- designed, writes Charlotte Matheson.
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Rickmers-Linie and Eastern Car Liner expand Trans Pacific cooperation
October 1 - Rickmers-Linie and Eastern Car Liner will expand their cooperation in the Trans Pacific trade.
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Hedge funds twice rebuffed by BBI
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.